As per subject...

Are Acer Laptops any good ?

Travelmate 240 Series ??

Thanks

In article <3f93be3b.2277645@news.btclick.com>, john@advise.com, a.k.a 
John says...


> Are Acer Laptops any good 

I'm pleased with mine, one of the 13xx series.

Seems very well made, doesn't have a flimsy lid hinge like some lappies 
seem to. Clear, bright display, although mineis a no frills model.
The only criticism i have, is that the fan is very noisy when it does 
kick in.

But, a 2 year warranty to boot ....

I bought mine last week from shopacer.co.uk and it is a brilliant machine
only paid �733 fr a 2.4Ghz 256ram 15" sceen 30Gb drive dvd/cdrw drive
Brilliant

Bryan

"John (John)" <john@advise.com> wrote in message
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> As per subject...
>
> Are Acer Laptops any good ?
>
> Travelmate 240 Series ??
>
> Thanks

On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 12:47:06 +0100, Chris Moyles wrote:

> I bought mine last week from shopacer.co.uk and it is a brilliant
> machine only paid �733 fr a 2.4Ghz 256ram 15" sceen 30Gb drive dvd/cdrw
> drive Brilliant
> 
> Bryan
> 
> "John (John)" <john@advise.com> wrote in message
> news:3f93be3b.2277645@news.btclick.com...
>> As per subject...
>>
>> Are Acer Laptops any good ?
>>
>> Travelmate 240 Series ??
>>
>> Thanks
 
Interestingly, acer.co.uk has been unavailable for 2 days !

"John (John)" <john@advise.com> wrote in message
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> As per subject...
>
> Are Acer Laptops any good ?

Yes. Aspire 1705SMi is very good.

> Travelmate 240 Series ??

Sorry. No experience of this one.
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Try the phone twat

"tiM" <timw1@dontspamvossnet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:pan.2003.10.21.18.32.49.968550.466@dontspamvossnet.co.uk...
> On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 12:47:06 +0100, Chris Moyles wrote:
>
> > I bought mine last week from shopacer.co.uk and it is a brilliant
> > machine only paid �733 fr a 2.4Ghz 256ram 15" sceen 30Gb drive dvd/cdrw
> > drive Brilliant
> >
> > Bryan
> >
> > "John (John)" <john@advise.com> wrote in message
> > news:3f93be3b.2277645@news.btclick.com...
> >> As per subject...
> >>
> >> Are Acer Laptops any good ?
> >>
> >> Travelmate 240 Series ??
> >>
> >> Thanks
>
> Interestingly, acer.co.uk has been unavailable for 2 days !

In article <pan.2003.10.21.18.32.49.968550.466@dontspamvossnet.co.uk>, 
timw1@dontspamvossnet.co.uk, a.k.a tiM says...

 
> Interestingly, acer.co.uk has been unavailable for 2 days !


Not been any problems here over that period.

Was downloading some drivers yesterday, and prior to that, was looking 
at the site in general without issue.

On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 16:29:34 +0100, Chris Moyles wrote:

> Try the phone twat
> 

Try words of more than one syllable, or is that too much for you to
achieve.

John <john@advise.com> (John) wrote in message news:<3f93be3b.2277645@news.btclick.com>...
> As per subject...
> 
> Are Acer Laptops any good ?
> 
> Travelmate 240 Series ??
> 
> Thanks

Using an Acer Travelmate 290 for several days now.

Seems very good.  Well-built, quiet/cool, long battery life, good
performance.

This one's a Centrino with 1.3GHz Pentium-M, 512MB, integrated 855
graphics, DVD/CD burner, etc.

My main gripes so far:  

Windows XP Home (Pro is better) with some Acer-configured system stuff
that I find annoying (e.g. 2 partitions on HD with Acer leftover trash
in extended partition).

DVD/CD burner is slow at 2x DVD-R / (24x CD-R?) (but maybe most
notebooks are similar in having slow DVD/CD burners?).

Stupid Acer Windows Desktop screen that ultimately took Registry
hacking to fully eliminate from display (it kept showing at startup
even after setting WinXP to not show it via the XP front end GUI).

No WPA for the built-in 802.11b wireless.

Touchpad is not as smooth/slick as I'd like.

***********

(I had an Averatec 3150HS before - that one is going back to the
retailer for refund today.  The Acer is a much better machine.)

In article <pan.2003.10.22.23.21.03.32165.4628@dontspamvossnet.co.uk>, 
timw1@dontspamvossnet.co.uk, a.k.a tiM says...
> On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 16:29:34 +0100, Chris Moyles wrote:
> 
> > Try the phone twat
> > 
> 
> Try words of more than one syllable

erm .... he did only use words of one syllable.

In article <b2168c03.0310230149.352487a4@posting.google.com>,=20
bobhgd@yahoo.com, a.k.a Bob H. says...

> My main gripes so far: =20
>=20
> Windows XP Home (Pro is better)=20

In what way?=20

> with some Acer-configured system stuff
> that I find annoying=20

seconded.

i'm, going to wipe the hard drive soon, and re-load XP on there *my*=20
way. All the drivers are available from Acer, so i doubt there'll be any=20
issues. I have the "restore" CD's to fall back on.
=20
> Stupid Acer Windows Desktop screen that ultimately took Registry
> hacking to fully eliminate from display (it kept showing at startup
> even after setting WinXP to not show it via the XP front end GUI).

How did you achieve this please?
Mine does exactly the same, and i'd like to remove it too.

> Touchpad is not as smooth/slick as I'd like.

Similarly, but then again, i only paid circa =A3600 for my 13xx series=20
laptop, and the touchpad performance is actually *better* than i=20
expected.