Ostriig on 27/11/2008 at 00:40

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I've got an Acer Extensa 7620G, which I bought for 450 pounds (minimal "negotiating", and including VAT) in July from a shop on Totenham Court Road, in London. I'm quite happy with it, though I should mention that I had to cart if off for repairs as it came with a motherboard defect from the very start. Not the best first impression but, for what it's worth, I guess I'm fairly content with Acer's support department, at least - it came back in five working days with no other complications.

Specs:

17'' (WXGA+ Acer CrystalBrite, whatever that means)
* Core2 Duo T5550 1.83Ghz, 667 Mhz FSB, 2MB cache
* 2GB DDR 667 Mhz
* ATI Radeon HD 2400XT 256MB dedicated (up to 1GB shared)
* 160GB HDD (pretty sure it's only 5400 RPM)

Sorry I can't give some more detailed info, I don't have Sandra installed on it at the time. The battery lasts for roughly 2 hours. As for performance, I have been able to run Age of Conan on this over the summer (~25-30 FPS, Shader Model 2.0, high textures, everything else on low) and that's quite a guzzler. Can't really complain, whether it's Firefox or Visual Studio, it's been quite good to me so far.

Oh, yeah, and it's (http://www.reset.com.pl/images/prod/191/7620.jpg) pretty. At least I think so.

The puzzling thing is that it's not listed on acer.co.uk, even though it is fully present on support.acer-euro.com. I should also throw this oddity out there: I'm currently dual-booting XP and Vista (thanks again, Matthew!), working fine, but the support site lists two different BIOS versions depending on which OS you use.