ACER Laptops Good or Bad
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As above in title.
A mate of mine is looking at buying an Acer and need some opinions if they are good or not.He was looking at the 5739g but as read on a couple of reviews that,this model has a dodgy wifi card and won't always connect and the cooling fan is very noisy..Also is the customer support any good..I not in the know on Acer laptops so any info would be great..
A mate of mine is looking at buying an Acer and need some opinions if they are good or not.He was looking at the 5739g but as read on a couple of reviews that,this model has a dodgy wifi card and won't always connect and the cooling fan is very noisy..Also is the customer support any good..I not in the know on Acer laptops so any info would be great..
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Dodgy WiFi? It's an Intel 5100 or 5300 which is good in my book.
I had to send an Acer laptop back for, wait for it, a faulty WiFi card
Daft buggers at the support centre claimed to fix it and sent it back with the same problem. Once they replaced the WiFi card it was fine. That's the only iffy Intel WiFi card I've seen in many years.
I had to send an Acer laptop back for, wait for it, a faulty WiFi card
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Dodgy WiFi? It's an Intel 5100 or 5300 which is good in my book.
I had to send an Acer laptop back for, wait for it, a faulty WiFi card
Daft buggers at the support centre claimed to fix it and sent it back with the same problem. Once they replaced the WiFi card it was fine. That's the only iffy Intel WiFi card I've seen in many years.
I had to send an Acer laptop back for, wait for it, a faulty WiFi card
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Cheers but he went off the idea of an Acer and i must admit he got a good deal on a Sony Vaio good Spec and amazingly wasn't overpriced..Only thing is think he could of done with a better processor(T6400) As anyone would think the end of the world is coming with people going on about Virtualization processors and company's such as Sony not updating the Bios to enable VT(which they now have)But unless you actually got a processor that supports VT,you ain't gonna be able to use it anyway.And is alot of proceesors out there in pc's with T6400 T6600 etc..Saying that i have been told you can trick your Bios so it supports VT...
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I have a 5738z and the main thing that bugs me is how the virtual pad works, you can be scrolling across a page and it suddenly resizes the screen or the pointer keeps moving off, also the keyboard is very easy to do typo's due to the layout as compared with my last Dell laptop. Apart from thos its pretty good, hdmi for films on my plasma and a reasonable spec for games. I have never had a problem with the wifi yet ?
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