Saving by design: the Aspire 4710-2013

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A picture taken in Japan of a flaming Dell notebook has been spreading virally across the web. Dell are cooperating fully with the Consumer Product Safety Commission, and have also opened a discussion about this potential PR disaster on their new "One2One" blog.

Image of Acer's 4710The AcerAspire 4710-2013 is a marvel of a laptop value at its $599starting price. The notebook comes with basically everything youneed hardware-wise. Maybe not everything you want in otherregards. But you know how that song goes. The Intel Core 2 Duo1.73 GHz processor is not the speediest, nor is 1GB of standardRAM the most generous. And the basic Intel graphics chip won'twin you any friends in the gamingcrowd.
But forwhat you're paying for this Acer-repeat, it starts at just$599-there is little room for complaint and much to be gratefulfor. Let's talk about the ports galore for instance-from theFireWire to the S-Video, from the 5-in-1 card reader to theExpressCard slot, from four USBs to a VGA.

A word of thanks, as well, goes out to the library of softwarethat comes with the 4710. You get proprietary Acer apps to helpyou create, capture, and edit video, to create DVDs, to interfacewith all of the other multimedia functions of the laptop. Andit's a Windows Vista Home Premium system, for those Microsoftlovers in the audience who have been waiting for a value-pricedsystem with which to get on the Vista train.

Save some praise for the 120GB of hard drive, far more than mostlaptops in this price range. And as you might have guessed fromall that previous talk about multimedia software, the Acer alsohas a DVD burner. And there's a full-sized keyboard to save yourfrom 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'sdesign. Acer tried to get trendy with a slick black chassis coverand a faux-leather, gray plastic keyboard deck. It didn't workout according to early eyewitnesses.

But beggars cannot be choosers, don't look a gift horse in themouth, and so on and so forth.

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