Acer - Aspire 4520

Great Value for money, Keyboard not great though

By: Anonymous November 17, 2007

Review:

I've had this laptop now for a little over a month. I'm pleased with it. The screen is very bright, shows rich color. The webcam is as good as any other I've owned, it's a nice extra feature. 

The keys above the standard qwerty keyboard - for email, wireless, internet etc... I haven't taken the time to program. Usually I won't use the extra features like that anyway.

The Keyboard leaves something to be desired. When a double letter is typed in a word, like the t's in "letter", more often than not the second letter doesn't register. I've learned to live with it, if you're planning on using this to write or type extensively, either consider an external keyboard or another machine. It's annoying.

The touchpad works just as well as any I've used. Standard Stuff here.

The DVD Burner works just fine, The NTI software that comes with it works better than I expected. 

The Card Reader is a nice feature. I never cared about having a card reader until I got this laptop! One cool thing about the card reader with Windows Vista: if you want to speed things up, grab a high-speed SD card and leave it in there. Windows Vista has a feature that will use it as RAM.

When you consider the Dual Core Turion processor, A Gig of RAM, Built in Webcam, DVD burner, Bluetooth, and infared that this offers, It's a Deal when you consider that I got it on Sale for $499.