Acer Netbook Review

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[sergrking3]

can u play world of warcraft!

[CaputoCreative]

Apparently you can, with decent framerate at a low 800 x 600-pixel resolution.

[Gisabella13]

can u get windows vista with this?????

[CaputoCreative]

I don't know of anyone selling it with Vista installed, but you can run Vista on it, and amazingly, it will run the Mac OS Leopard too.

[Gisabella13]

can u play games like ths sims3 on it???

[CaputoCreative]

These are the minimum system requirements for the Sims 3 for a laptop:

XP Service Pack 2

Processor: Pentium IV 2.0 GHz / Athlon

Memory: 1.5 GB

GeForce Go 6200 / Radeon mobile 9600

Graphics RAM: 128 MB

The problem you might encounter is at the graphics card level. The Acer has a built-in GMA 950, which might play the game, but at a very poor quality.

[Killsquad9009]

@cedriclovesaaron my brother got a netbook worse than this and it runs itunes just fine...along with counterstrike and all kinds of things, his is an HP

[pgsuperfan]

I had a problem with mine called customer support to help with removing a virus the geek from India told me 100.00 but I first told their would be no charge go figure lets nuke India !!!

[me1485]

how do you take videos on it



[Massooze]

How old is this video?

[ReviewCam]

what's the diference between a netbook and a notebook?

[cedriclovesaaron]

can u download Itunes? music and movies from itunes?

[BrennonManske]

After over 3 hours they were unable to resolve the matter and told me that there was nothing further that they could do. I filed a claim for a refund on the technical support and was (VERY RUDELY I MIGHT ADD by "Orville badge #GWSS116") denied. I'm really not sure which is worse, the customer support or the product. After my experiences not only would I not recommend purchase, I would strongly advise against it. I hope this review helps someone before they make the same mistakes that I did.

[BrennonManske]

After I exchanged the laptop for another computer I came to face with the same problem, I was assured that if I purchased the support that a technition would be able to resolve the matter.

[BrennonManske]

I bought an Acer netbook last week, could get wireless connection but was unable to surf the web. I called customer support and they insisted that I would have to purchase technical support which would essentially cost another $200.

I decided to take the computer(my fathers christmas gift) back to try another one because the additional $200 was over my budget.

[akamissrubytuesday]

@Mrscliffie - thanks... yeh- I tried that & I even put the shortcut on my desktop...but- it won't allow me to just start capturing a video... much less save it to my video file- it only wants to take a pic.... I went to my moviemaker & found a way to capture video- but it still won't let me save it or send it off to anyone.