Acer laptops any good?

[rrcn]

I'm looking to get my sister a laptop for college and I ran into this Acer TravelMate.

http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProduc...115-112&depa=3

I really like the specs/price, but I dont know how good or bad Acer is.

Any comments?

TIA.

[filipino]

Acer is like made in taiwan, i have a friend that has a taiwan made laptop i think it was "MITAC" and its not good.. i have a laptop that is like 3 years old a Sony vio pentium3 850 MHZ and still working

[Bizkitkid2001]

I have a 10 year old acer sitting next to me that worked up until i gutted it for parts last year. I am still using its old 14" color monitor on my 500mhz PIII machine, and its still as bright as when it was brand new. Acer comes with brand name parts, well at least this one did. THe motherboard is Intel, the hard drive is maxtor(1.5gb i am using in my teamspeak comp) and samsung memory. I would think that Acer computers would equal to EMachines.

[filipino]

pentium 3 10 years?

[Bizkitkid2001]

THe PIII isn't ten years old, the acer is ten years old. THe Acer is a 133mhz Pentium.

[filipino]

it was 1999

[Bizkitkid2001]

uuuhhhh, what are you talking about?

[filipino]

pentium3 processors release year 1999 - not 94, so how can you say that you pentium3 laptop was 10 years old when pentium3 processors was release year 99?

[uncle_jimbo]

he said he is using the 10 year old acer LCD on his p3 500 machine.

[Bizkitkid2001]

CRT jimbo


I never said my PIII was ten years old. I said my Acer was ten years old.

My acer does not have a PIII in it!!

And i don't have a Acer laptop! I can't gut a laptop for parts!!! PLease read!!