hey to someone here who have experience in laptop brand.recently i want to buy a laptop,acer is a good brand in Asia area but be more popular than Asia in Europe.there are a lot of travelmate series like 3200 or 4000 the price of both of which are under $1200. there are the main configuration below: cpu: intel pentium m Dothan1.73G(sonoma 740) video card:PCI-E ATI X700 64M memory:DDR 333,256M harddrive:SATA 60G LCD display:15.1" how do guys think this one acer laptop?i want to buy this one in the coming summer vocation.i need your kindly advice.umm,i am now a college student who are majoring software designing.

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Acer is the cheapest laptop in my country - India. Though the price factor is quite satisfactory, Acer laptops as far as my knowledge is concerned, are not upto other brands like HP - Compaq, IBM, Samsung and others. They are usually very heavy, specially those with less than $1200USD price tag range. For laptop CPU should be intel pentium centrino which can withstand high temperature and prevent overheating of the system.

However higher configuration of Acer laptop may be a good idea too. Mostly all those costly laptops or called it even notebooks are more or less the same from one brand to another; of course not to speak big brother Mac.

I suggest you go for some other brands.

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Laptop desktop is upside down
Acer Laptop

I did something to my screen, my headphones fell on the keyboards to my laptop and the screen now is upside down. How do I reverse it.
Thanks,
Rosie


-reply by Rosemary Vega

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you can probably hit a fn function key to play around with the screen display. You probably somehow hit a key that inverted it. If not, unscrew the keyboard and hinge cover and make sure the cable is seated properly. How hard did the keyboard get hit?

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Ctrl + Alt + The Up arrow key

Hope this helps.


Acer laptops are the really cheap and chunky types. They usually come with Celeron processors, but this one seems to come with a Centrino, which is fine.

Screen, fine, processor, fine, memory, ok.

The laptop is satisfactory, but if you'd like to push the boat out a bit more, try a Satelite Laptop or a HP laptop. If you'd like to go to the higher end of the market, try going with Sony Vaio, some are excellent so check the reviews (i recommend on amazon). If you'd like to go for looks rather than specs then go for Macbook air, which is the thinnest laptop out there.

Hope this helps!

 

 

 

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I'm not so big on Acer's. I have an Acer desktop and when i bought it wasn't the best. So i have done upgrrades to it. But what ever you do. Do not buy a dell. OMG They are so annoying. You cant upgrade them with out getting their parts. and the crash to much.

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williamm, your are right.
Yes, that is what Dell does.
I have seen the inside of a Dell desktop, every thing there is well fixed,
you can't even move one part.

And if you want to upgrade your computer, you will have to get Dell's parts.

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Eh, Acer I don't think really has a lot of support. I am not basing that off what I have personally experienced, but rather the lack of.

Take Hewlett Packard for example. They are a very well known company based on what? Their support.

I would honestly look at price after making sure that the company that sells it can give help for any issues you may come across. HP is one of the best I think, with Dell being one of the worst.

HP will even help you with issues that are not related to your original configuration. For example you just bought a new video card and you're having issues getting it to work properly. They will help you out with diagnostics and whatnot, and if you need you can send it in to them for repairs(Not free of course.)

There have only been a few times that I have had issues with their support, and it was more about their lack of knowledge than anything. Aside from that I would always choose HP over other companies.

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