The Insanely Cheap Acer TravelMate 2428

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It's that time of year again. The summer is winding down and students are preparing for a new year of classes. Many colleges and universities place almost as much emphasis on laptops as textbooks. Ideally students would love to buy the latest ultralight VAIO, multimedia Qosmio, or Apple's core duo Macbook Pro. But what about an affordable laptop for the skint student whose mom and pop won't pick up the tab?

Photo of Acer's Travelmate 2428Laptopmanufacturers are racing to see who can build the fastest, finestnotebooks boasting Intel Duo Core processors or the latest 64-bitAMD processors. These are the machines for people and businesseswho can drop mad bills for the latest technology and not blink.At the other end of the pricing spectrum, is there any similarmadcap development? Yes, there are entry level machines like the Acer TravelMate2428 notebook.
ThankfullyAcer hasn't forgotten the little man-the student whose mommy anddaddy don't pick up the tab for everything, or the small businesswho financially can't write off big IT checks yet. For thesefolks, at least they've put together in the Travelmate 2428 anice little package, complete with an Intel Pentium M 735A (yes,only single core) that runs at 1.7 GHz along with the old 910 GMLExpress chipset for superior mobile battery life.

And despite the portable size, the Acer Travelmate 2428 doeshave a 14.1-inch widescreen with 1280 x 800 resolution. As thisis Acer's cheapie, however, do not expect their proprietaryCrystalBrite high-gloss finish.

Oops, I've let the cat out of the bag. This is one of Acer's cheaper notebooks, and yes, the company has done a complete service tothe low-end buyers out there by releasing this laptop. But at thesame time, there are some serious gaps in the Travelmate2428, beyond just the lack of CrystalBrite.

Start with the memory. It only has 256 MB of DDR2. It can beupgraded, sure, to nearly double and triple that. Yet to startout with such little memory could hamper even the most basic ofbusiness users from multitasking. With the hard drive you onlyget 40 GB of memory.

But why dwell on the negatives, when this small business or college laptop has more than adequate wireless capabilities, and a read-write CD/DVDreader. It can even come loaded with Linux, for you penguin fans.And best of all, it can be had for only around $530 CDN-about $40cheaper if you get the one with Linux!

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