Acer Laptop Aspire AMD Turion 64 MK-38 (2.20GHz) 1GB Memory 120GB HDD ATI Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP 14.1" Windows Vista Home Premium AS5050-4570

Pros: smal, light,camera is not bad power is good. Just buy another gb of memory.I had not a problem with the vista and what a price...

Cons: Case feels cheap but again is 600$

Pros: Own one for about 2 weeks. It is running nice and smooth. Intalled many applications without problems. Good components for the price.

Cons: Only 1GB of ram and is low for vista. You'll notice when various applications are running. But since ram are very cheap (like $80 for 2x1GB) I'll get 2gb

Overall Review: It would be nice to put a Turion 64x2 1.8GHz in it since this laptop is compatible with this processor and many more that have a socket S1. But I think it'll void the warranty.

Pros: Runs nicely no lagging anyware. grate screen. best price I ever seen for 2.2ghz and best of all the graphics card is not 256 shared mem its 256 onboard + 126 shared. yes 382 total don't you love ATI.

Cons: vista is demanding on ram and cpu plus takes 15gigs out of the box. caseing seems cheap. would not run some games at first not vista's fault rather the old graphics card drivers need to be updated!

Overall Review: The graphics drivers preInstalled are V1.1.0. go here the ati website http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/vista32/integrated-vista32.html to get V 7.8

Pros: The display is superb The laptop runs really fast on XP. So if u wanna go with Vista , RAm upgrade recommended Good wireless excellent price for the configuration

Cons: Difficult to configure Linux Keyboard and touch pad not comfortable. System heats up quickly and u can feel the heat near the touch pad.

Overall Review: Compact and slip .. overall a good starter machine

Pros: As expected all per specs works great

Cons: Short battery life, and it took much longer than expected to make Vista recognize WiFi and handshake with Dlink-dwl-g700ap access point but with some extra effort all worked

Overall Review: if you ship to your friend in US and then ask friend to ship to Ukraine as was in my case be aware that Ukranian customs-bandits charged me shocking $400 in custom fees to get this item into my hands in Yalta-Crimea-Ukraine.

Pros: Delivered as expected exactly to specs. I knew what i am getting an excellent laptop for the money.

Cons: Vista is useless junk as one has to go back to XP to make WiFi work. I bought 2 new laptops Acer AS5050-4570 and IBM Lenovo R61i, both are excellent machines, both came with Useless Vista as both cant connect to the WiFi AP. So Vista is moneys wasted, i wish laptops could come w/o Vista s..t until microslop will fix wifi problem.

Overall Review: The laptop came to Dallas to my daughters home n/p. She have sent it to Crime/Ukraine where i am now setting new business. Ukranian Customs Bandits charged me $400 in custom fees!!! Be aware of that. So this laptop became golden after delivery to Yalta:) But it is an excellent entry level machine for the original moneys, be aware of Ukranian Customs Bandits:)

Pros: Lightweight, very good screen, fast keyboard, nice expansion options.

Cons: Just add 2GB of RAM and speeds increase.

Overall Review: Look into using ReadyBoost as well

Pros: Great price/performance ratio so far CS 1.6 has ran great even on lowest cpu speed setting/256mb of ram for video yes to get wow to work? could be a con but i know it will play i worth every penny makes me happy =)

Cons: first 30-45 minutes of use (prolly cause of vista) are rough... laptop seemed kinda sluggish, feels nice a tight now, very responsive, and i couldnt believe the battery life... 2.4hours NICE pretty hot.... doesnt seem to crank out alot of sound in some applications but its all good :P

Overall Review: you should for sure buy a laptop cooler i bought the vantec lapcool2 seems to be doing its job. maybe even an extra $70 for 2gb ddr2 533mhz ram... camera is cool built in mic is kinda ehh ho hum... pretty upgradable which is a great feature for a laptop single core really does do a good job in this laptop bought it for school and took a chance... just wanted something mainly for school and stuff but wanted something i can install and RUN any game to date on.