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Average Ratings
Ease of Use7/10 Based on 1 rating
Ease of Set Up7/10 Based on 1 rating
Value for Money5/10
Reviewer Rating4/10
Overall Rating6.5/10 Based on 4 ratings
50% Recommended1 out of 2 Reviews

Review of Acer Aspire RC500 Computer

By Stunt Gerbil Rank: Lieutenant-Colonel on 25th Aug 2004

Stunt Gerbil's Ratings
Time Computer Owned1 - 6 Months
Ease of Use7/10
Ease of Set Up7/10
Value for money10/10
Overall value8/10
yes Stunt Gerbil's recommendation

Good Points

Beast of a Hard Disk for the price.
Wireless Mouse & Keyboard.
Price!

Bad Points

Chugs a bit at times.

General Comments

Investing my cash in the Acer Aspire RC500 is proving to be an inspired purchase. I've got a pretty small room and the benefits of the flat screen and wireless mouse and keyboard is immense as my desk is continually covered in tat. The machine is really smart, I just love it, the tower isn't too big either. It still doesn't play championship manager as quick as I'd like it to but for under £800 you can't have anything can you? Oh I nearly forgot to mention, it has 160GB of Hard Drive!! How sweet is that? I'm tempted just to use mine as a jukebox with all the songs I've put on it. I am one happy customer.

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1 Comment on Review by Stunt Gerbil for Acer Aspire RC500 Computer

  1. iroczvinnie on 17th Sep 2005

    I have owned my RC 500 for over 1 year and it has had heaps of problems with the multimedia portion. I have reinstalled (ghost image provided) the os no less than 5 times in a year, each image lasting approximately 2 months before demonstrating problems with the TV portion of the media centre. (not to mention the intermitant crashes just as you are in the middle of a movie!)

    The TV portion crashes regularly and once it crashes, it doesn't seem to recover. There will be sound, but no picture, or the sound will be out of sync with the picture, or it just will hang - the only fix being reinstallation from scratch using the image provided. Acer was no help blaming it on "software downloaded from the internet" - however the only software loaded on it came with the RC500.

    Overall, extremely disapointed in the product and the support provided. I suggest waiting until the multimedia centres are a more mature product and stable.



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