Acer Aspire question

I am considering buying a Acer Aspire 5920 at a penny under �380. If I do, I know it has Vista and I would aim to run Firefox as my browser.

My trusty old PC which runs XP is or has been slow, freezes and something I don't notice is the droan of the motor. As my comp is in the lounge, it aint much fun for others to hear this constant noise.

Maybe someone might like to throw in a comment. Oh, I did read somewhere that this model has an American keyboard, that being so, is there much difference?. Would there be any other americanism that I would have to get used to?

I;m sure other people shortly will comment far better than me but i can say this. That laptop your looking at is good and all laptops are pretty much silent so noise def wont be a problem with a laptop. As for the american keyboard well only thing i know is they have minor differances for example the " speech mark key and the @ key are the oppasit way around theres a few other differances too nothing major.
However im unsure cause i've never used vista but in xp if for example you could change the keyboard setting from english US to english UK and everything would be like a normal uk keyboard. And all that would be differant then is where on the number 2 key on the laptop keyboard it would say @ but when you pressed it like your shift 2 key on your xp machine " would come up instead of @.

I'm sure other people will make more sence and better comments shortly lol.

Edit i've been up all night and totaly forgot about the firefox thing. Firefox works perfect on vista just download latest version install and done lol.

Blackmesa8

Edited by deleted (Sun 13-Jul-08 08:27:21)

Currys are selling it so I can't imagine it has a US keyboard, it'll be localised with a UK keyboard and PSU etc.

Where are you proposing to buy from ?

There are a lot of models in the 5920 range, see
http://www.simplyacer.com/products/keywords/aspire+5920

I picked up the information from MSE and Martin gave the Play as a link. Mind you, I've looked round and seen it elsewhere for myself now. I need to convince myself that this particular model is best for my day to day surfing, ie no games/spreadsheet/films/music required.

Oh, I'm not a lover of the Currys/Dixons type of store.

Edited by deleted (Sun 13-Jul-08 09:23:31)

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I picked up the information from MSE and Martin gave the Play as a link.

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in English ?

www.moneysavingexpert.com and www.play.com sorry

I've had a 5610 for a couple of years now. It's a pretty good bit of kit for the price. It even manages to run the standard client for Eve-Online passably well which is quite an achievement for an Intel graphics chip. The only criticism I have of it is the on/off switch. That went thorugh a period of being 'dodgy' about a year to six months ago. It has since recovered (no idea why, lol).

Actually a second possible complaint is that the hard drive is a bit slow. It rarely causes me problems but when booting up (as opposed to coming out of hybernation) it's best to leave it alone for five minutes while it loads background stuff. One of those is a .NET application though so has a lot more to load.

Edited by Andrue (Sun 13-Jul-08 10:43:54)

Thanks, (like the spelling) Andrue. I will continue to monitor replies but have a funny feeling I will be making a decision this week. Oh, did you go from a PC to a laptop, and if so, what were the or any noticeable differences.

I have both

I mostly use the laptop for browsing on the spur of the moment and during boring bits of TV shows. I tried using just a laptop for everything a couple of years ago but it didn't really work. Not being able to upgrade it was irritating and made worse because unless you pay a lot of money any laptop is going to be a compromise.

I how you know which model is being discussed, as a lot of different configs seem to hide behind the same model number. Keep an eye on the processor spec and RAM.