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Saving by design: the Aspire 4710-2013 |
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The Acer Aspire 4710-2013 is a marvel of a laptop value at its $599 starting price. The notebook comes with basically everything you need hardware-wise. Maybe not everything you want in other regards. But you know how that song goes. The Intel Core 2 Duo 1.73 GHz processor is not the speediest, nor is 1GB of standard RAM the most generous. And the basic Intel graphics chip won't win you any friends in the gaming crowd. |
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But for
what you're paying for this Acer-repeat, it starts at just
$599-there is little room for complaint and much to be grateful
for. Let's talk about the ports galore for instance-from the
FireWire to the S-Video, from the 5-in-1 card reader to the
ExpressCard slot, from four USBs to a VGA. A word of thanks, as well, goes out to the library of software that comes with the 4710. You get proprietary Acer apps to help you create, capture, and edit video, to create DVDs, to interface with all of the other multimedia functions of the laptop. And it's a Windows Vista Home Premium system, for those Microsoft lovers in the audience who have been waiting for a value-priced system with which to get on the Vista train. Save some praise for the 120GB of hard drive, far more than most laptops in this price range. And as you might have guessed from all that previous talk about multimedia software, the Acer also has a DVD burner. And there's a full-sized keyboard to save your from finger cramping and a 14.1-inch display. So with this Acer Aspire, you surely can get what you need. Now there is one minor "want" caveat left to consider-the 4710's design. Acer tried to get trendy with a slick black chassis cover and a faux-leather, gray plastic keyboard deck. It didn't work out according to early eyewitnesses. But beggars cannot be choosers, don't look a gift horse in the mouth, and so on and so forth. Read - Acer Aspire 4710 Review Related article: - Smart Pens to Challenge Laptops in the Classroom? By Matthew Brodsky - Laptopical Friday, February 22, 2008 |
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