Acer Aspire 1652 WLMi Review

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3.3 stars
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Guest's Review of Acer Aspire 1652 WLMi Laptop

3rd Sep 2008

Overall Rating

2.5 stars
  • Value for money
    5 stars
  • Screen Quality
    5 stars
  • Ease of Use
    4 stars
  • Time Laptop Owned
    Over 1 Year
  • Battery Life
    2 stars
Good Points

- 16/9 screen
- Price 20% cheaper than other computer


General Comments

After 2 years of use :
- the CD rom got broken, to read (sometimes I have a Blue Screen of the Death on my XP just reading normal data - it is not MS Windows oriented since trying to install other OS always crashed, like OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Ubuntu, Debian), to write (when burning CDs 80% of them cannot be read), and working at a basical level (sometimes the CDrom ejects by itself - no it is not a backdoor this behaviour exists also with any Internet connection. Sometimes the read LED of the CD rom keeps flashing, even if there is no CD inside...)
- The battery got broken, it completely overloaded by Deferred Procedure Call process up to 80%, so any input on the keyboard or use of the touchpad just were not convenient at all. Before being broken, the battery life was only 3 hours, even slowing down the process 50% down using Notebook Hardware Control, I had only 2 hours of use on emacs / Notepad++.
- The blue key Function doesnt work to input numbers using the computer-like pattern (on the right side of computer keyboards)
- The scrollbar of the touchpad never worked
- USB plugs + heat (cf previous comment) on stupid locations
As most of the people know, ACER is cheaper but the HW quality is worst.

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