Should I buy Acer 3502LM?

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Hi
If anyone can give me some advice I would be grateful. Have seen the Acer 3502LM in Tesco for £468 and am thinking of buying it. That is about my budget...
Does anyone have any opinions on that laptop? Or any better ones for a similar price?
Thanks very much!
 
Simple answer ... NO!

;)

IBM make the only 'laptops' worth buying. :thumb:
 
An IBM for under £500 ... WOW.

But then I had a look at the spec' ... shame on you IBM. :rolleyes:

It will be a bit of a slug ... if all you 'need' is something portable to do "course work" then I could put up with it's slowness ... sorry to say but "decent laptops" start at around £1,000

I now revise my last statement for IBM ... however, they are one of the most reliable "builders" of laptops/notebooks

You pays your money, you takes your choice.

;)
 
Just a note to say thanks for the advice. I ended up buying a Dell Inspiron 2200 for £535. It totally suits my needs and, apart from being a bit heavy, is absolutely great so far!
 
any system with 256mb is going to go painfully slow

im on a stinky 3-and-a-half year old hp pavilion and even with 1gb of ram it sucks :P no matter how much i upgrade it it craps itself up, so im giving up and building myself a new one
 
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hi - this is my first post.

about the 3502lm
We have just bought 2 laptops both acer
I bought the 3502lm from tesco as the person that started the thread was asking about. It was for my wife. She is happy about it and it is quite a good little machine. for the money I would say it was well worth it - the only drawback is that it is not wireless, but that can be rectified for a few pounds. I had a look at its insides and it is easy to upgrade there is a spot for an internal wireless card and the sodimms are within easy reach. the HD is easy to replace as well.
In short this is a cheap laptop if you just want to do basic tasks, but can easily be upgraded if required.
On the other hand I have an acer travelmate 8103wlmi and it also was well worth the money!!!
 
We just bought the Acer 5002LM

They make good solid laptops... the only thing i find weird is that the HD's come formatted to FAT32! Why... anyone know?
 
christopherpostill said:
We just bought the Acer 5002LM

They make good solid laptops... the only thing i find weird is that the HD's come formatted to FAT32! Why... anyone know?
Click to expand...
Nearly every Home PC, or Laptop, (branded) I have seen has it that way ... you should know by now, not many manufacturers actually know how to set-up and computer … and ‘converting’ to NTFS is a disaster waiting to happen … NTFS is a more secure File System, but you need to do a ‘clean install’ … now where is that Windows CD they never provided?


;)
 
Does FAT have any advantages?

It runs OK as it is... the little AMD Turion 64 is happily crunching away for us 24/7...
 
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