Acer Aspire 5536 15.6-inch Laptop (AMD Athlon X2 QL-64 2.1 GHz, 3 GB RAM, 500 GB HDD, Vista Home Premium)
Excellent
The function to put the session in memory and put the computer in a low power state so you can resume working is very helpful for someone like me, who often has lots of windows open and leaves a number of projects half completed overnight. It was a real pain on my old machine re-starting and then manually re-opening the webpages I was drawing on and the Word documsnts I was editing. Makes it a lot easier to pick the computer up for five mins and then put it down.
I had a problem with getting bluetooth to work but that may have been something I did. I also made the mistake of loading huge amounts of data onto the machine before making my emergency back up disk (so it turned into 16 emergency back up disks).
I’m sure there are better machines out there, but not for £500. Recommended.
Great spec for the price
Bought this as a Christmas present for my wife who has recently started making noises about wanting to do some web surfing ( more likely shopping). I liked the idea of the built in wireless card and also the webcam so that we could set up web chats with friends and family.
The processor is pretty good with a decent amount of RAM and a really good hard disc. She is unlikely to graduate into serious gaming so the package on offer was perfectly adequate…….Best Buy Acer Aspire 5536 15.6-inch Laptop
