I recently purchased this from the acer website with the extended warrenty. It came on time and the service was perfect. The computer is easily compatible with windows vista and runs smoothly, however on idle, vista uses around 46% of the RAM. This makes no difference when using microsoft word, etc, however when playing games it really has an effect. Also it seems to suffer from the 'atikmag' problem which affects the video card. The atikmag file failes on occasion causing the whole computer to shut down, there is no know fix as yet.
Finally the battery is a bit on the weak side, however 'add on batteries' (consult acer website) are avalible, but are on the expensive side, usually it lasts up to 90 mins from full.
Apart from these issues, the computer is basically perfect! It computes amazing with vista letting the user use all the benifits of the vista progamme. The hard-drive is partitioned, which lets the user organise the files to suit their needs better. The wireless internet componant is ideal, can detect internet from over 100 yards away! The 2 GB of ram is ample for the normal user, however if gaming and advanced programming is your thing, an upgrade from the acer website is avalible. One last thing, the 2 GHz could do with an up-grade (vista is main culprit) but this is cheapish.
In comparison to other laptops on the market with this spec this is definitly on the cheaper side and of high build quality. I definitly recommend this laptop against all others for this spec. Also with the money you save you could upgrade componants ( see acer website for recommendations and recent prices)