Acer Travelmate C311XMi

Acer Travelmate 7520G-401G16

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 ...

Acer Travelmate 8204WLMi

fresh install the NIC will continually drop in and out. Now there was a reported patch for this which involved a firmware update, unfortunately by the time I found it Acer had removed it from being available and demanded returns of laptop. However I did notice as soon as I installed HP Printer driver for my network printers the network card immediately settles down and works perfectly. There are 4 USB 2.0 ports on the laptop giving plenty of ports A PCI xpress slot that i;ve not uised and a normal card slot. There is also a security card slot, I have never used this, however you need to ensure you keep it safe otherwise being hardware based it does compeltely lock ...

Acer Travelmate 8204WLMi

with various computer magazines at my elbow and the vastness of the Internet below my fingers I started the search for the "perfect machine". Eventually I settled in the Acer Travelmate 8204WLMi, and this is why. Firstly, the TravelMate was not a cheap machine. At just over £1,700 pounds it was definitely top-of-the-range, in spec and in price. It was a price I was prepared to pay for a machine that was hopefully going to deliver top performance for more than just a couple of years. Most machines are out-of-date very quickly and unable to run new software. I can say that so far it has lived up to expectations on that front. It was also at this time that ...