[CGUYS] Aspire Laptop Comments?

2008-01-06 Thread Richard P.
Looking at an Aspire laptop, AS5720-4126 at Microcenter: http://tinyurl.com/2zxdzg The specs have the basics of what is needed in a laptop and it looks and works nicely. Other than it being Vista as well as not being an Mac (Tom ;-) ), is this a safe buy? I don't have any experience with Acer la

Re: [CGUYS] Aspire Laptop Comments?

2008-01-06 Thread Tony B
We had a 17" desktop replacement that seems to have died for good now at only about 2 years. It also needed warranty work. But laptops in general get so abused it's hard to draw any conclusions from one experience. It looks like a fine machine to me, though I'll also admit my experiences with Vist

Re: [CGUYS] Aspire Laptop Comments?

2008-01-06 Thread Tom Piwowar
>Looking at an Aspire laptop, AS5720-4126 at Microcenter: >http://tinyurl.com/2zxdzg >The specs have the basics of what is needed in a laptop and it looks and >works nicely. Other than it being Vista as well as not being an Mac (Tom >;-) ), is this a safe buy? I don't have any experience with Ace

Re: [CGUYS] Aspire Laptop Comments?

2008-01-06 Thread gerald
bought an Asus laptop for wife for kitchen use. bought it on price alone. added some ram. still running fine after 2 years of hard use. it is not transported, which is the real laptop killer. sits on a countertop covered in flour, olive oil, etc. when she was employed, she drug a laptop wi