Acer Travelmate 233LC

A Big No Name ! (1242 words)
by ultras67 - written on 30/07/03, updated on 30/07/03 (Very useful, 411 readings)
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because of this word of mouth a couple of months ago I was persuaded by a friend to consider buying an Acer laptop. In the end I plumped for the Travelmate 234FXC. As the 230 series shares many of the same components and the suggest a product has disappeared again I have put the review against this model. Tech Alert! Here some tech stuff to read or skip over now. Here is the spec of the machine I bought. Mobile Intel Celeron Processor 2.2 GHz, 256 MB DDR-266 RAM, ( which can go up to 1024 MB ) Combo Drive (8x DVD 10/8/24x CD-RW) 400 MHz processor system bus Intel 845GL chipset Integrated VGA with DVMT technology 20 GB HDD 14.1" XGA TFT LCD with ...

Acer Travelmate 210T

ACE(R) in the Hole (1803 words)
by Islander - written on 12/07/01, updated on 15/11/01 (Very useful, 1862 readings)
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100s (£735)) only had a 5GB hard-drive and was the same price as the ACER, and the Compaq Celeron 700 version (Armada 110s (£822)) was an identical specification to the Acer (with just the addition of Word 2000 and MS Works), and was over £130 more expensive (the cheapest I could find on the net), or over £200 more expensive in Dixon’s. In the end I ended up paying £726 including VAT, delivery and with an extra 64Mb memory upgrade, which I think was a bargain (the ACER was £687 incl. VAT by itself). The 210 range of laptops are a replacement for the 2xx series, and are a new addition to the ACER line-up (so new in fact, that when I bought mine a couple of weeks ...