Acer Laptops, Good/bad

[Livy]

im currently thinking about updating my laptop. its currently a evo n1015v athlon 1500. and thinking of gettign this acer one http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/in...oduct_uid=59712 (http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=59712)
anyone here have reviews on acers, or any bad findings on them?

edit: and also how good the via prosavage onboard card is.

[tesco]

Originally posted by Livy@1 April 2004 - 19:54
im currently thinking about updating my laptop. its currently a evo n1015v athlon 1500. and thinking of gettign this acer one http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/in...oduct_uid=59712 (http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=59712)
anyone here have reviews on acers, or any bad findings on them?

edit: and also how good the via prosavage onboard card is.
Well, I have no idea about the laptop, but I know about the onboard graphics...

I have them on my motherboard although I don't use it. I tried it once when i built my computer and couldn't get it to work off my mx440. I tried a few games on it and although its onboard it had pretty good performance. I played Soldier of Fortune, Grand Theft Auto 3, and Need for Speed 3. All those games worked pretty flawlessly with 640*480, at 800*600 it was pretty good with the first two games but perfect with need for speed 3. I even got Need for Speed running at 1024*768 and it still ran flawlessly (I would have tried higher, but that was the maximum my old monitor supported). Pretty good for onboard IMO.

[lynx]

Acer are supposed to be pretty hot, although it's been a while since I've used one myself.

I believe Lamsey has (or had) one, if he ever got it working. You might like to ask him what he thought about it.

[Lamsey]

They're pretty good IMO - excellent design, and the specs of that one you linked to seem excellent for under £600.

If you want to find a home for the old one I'm sure I can accomodate you... :-"

[Livy]

yeah, the reviews on there seem to be saying the same too, i may already have a home for it, either my brother, who starts uni after the summer, or maybe my gran and grandad. i need the funds from it to fund my new one.