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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Vindicator on December 23, 2006, 06:42:11 am

Title: I'll buy a new laptop :)
Post by: Vindicator on December 23, 2006, 06:42:11 am
(http://www.notebookreview.com/assets/14759.jpg)

Specs:

AMD turion 64 x2 1,6 ghz
1gb of ram
120 gb pata hdd
Ati radeon xpress 1100 128 mb dx9
DVD writer combo dvdr/rw
WIndows media center edition 2005 ( i change to xp home prolly)
15,4" widescreen lcd monitor
3x usb 2.0 ports ; 1x firewire ; 1x bluetooth; wifi card
Price 890 EUR (price depends on the shop i go) included taxes but since i ll  buy for my shop i dont pay the taxes


what u think  its great for pretrogaming like system shock 2 freespace and wing commander and the like and not so recent games like doom 3 and quake 4


lol i noticed a white thing on the lcd monitor its just the jpg
Title: Re: I'll buy a new laptop :)
Post by: Ghostavo on December 23, 2006, 06:53:16 am
I hope you won't have any serious problem with it, because being the brand it is, support may take a while.
Title: Re: I'll buy a new laptop :)
Post by: Vindicator on December 23, 2006, 07:01:24 am
acer support is very good by phone but on email is horrible so i go for phone support
Title: Re: I'll buy a new laptop :)
Post by: Ghostavo on December 23, 2006, 08:56:04 am
I meant support as in the laptop having something wrong with it that you can't fix and having to send it back for them to replace/fix whatever was broken.
Title: Re: I'll buy a new laptop :)
Post by: SadisticSid on December 23, 2006, 10:16:06 am
Actually the issue I had with my Ferrari laptop was resolved within the week - can't fault their support there. Remember that you usually hear only about the negative experiences people have with support services.
Title: Re: I'll buy a new laptop :)
Post by: Ghostavo on December 23, 2006, 10:28:39 am
True, but the only two persons I knew that had issues with them had to wait over a month to have a monitor issue fixed which shouldn't have left the factory in such a state.

I was a bit more lucky than those two persons (regarding their problems) and still I had to wait a month for them to fix a faulty keyboard and dvd-drive.

Perhaps it's a country specific thing.
Title: Re: I'll buy a new laptop :)
Post by: CP5670 on December 23, 2006, 02:26:18 pm
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what u think  its great for pretrogaming like system shock 2 freespace and wing commander and the like and not so recent games like doom 3 and quake 4

This game is unfortunately a PITA to get working on XP, although it works better with ATI cards.

Acer makes some very good products, although I have no idea what their support is like. Actually, if I was buying a laptop, I would probably look at their options first as they're pretty much the only manufacturer to offer full-size keyboards at a reasonable price.
Title: Re: I'll buy a new laptop :)
Post by: brozozo on December 23, 2006, 07:30:34 pm
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what u think  its great for pretrogaming like system shock 2 freespace and wing commander and the like and not so recent games like doom 3 and quake 4

This game is unfortunately a PITA to get working on XP, although it works better with ATI cards.

Acer makes some very good products, although I have no idea what their support is like. Actually, if I was buying a laptop, I would probably look at their options first as they're pretty much the only manufacturer to offer full-size keyboards at a reasonable price.

Tell me about it! Save yourself the trouble and run the game on a Windows 98 machine.