Acer Aspire 5000

Summary: Its a decent computer, only problems I have is that It gets slow, the Ram is too low for me, the HDD size is also too low, and it overheats quickly. Also since im a music producer, I run FL Studios 10 producer edition, I cant use alot of effects and plug-ins for my project or it starts making the CPU usage spike too 100 which makes the songs skip alot. Its frustrating. So its a good starter computer, but I wont keep it for long.

Summary: Final Verdict: BIGGEST bang for 400 bucks on a laptop ever. Very smart buy for k-12 students for the older you get the more processing capacity you'll need. Bought refurbished from Tiger, set it up and hardly ever turned it off and that was in what 2002, 2003. It gave up the ghost yesterday and I replaced it with a Vaio NS300 series. What you *need* to do with this laptop is to set it up to auto run diskcheck upon start up after a bad powerdown. I mean I ran this sucker until it blew it up- turned it off maybe 10 times- the battery was so cooked it would only hold 10 mins of charge. I have had absolutely no problems with this notebook- all three of my XPS notebooks together couldn't get a leg up. Never even had to run critical windows systems files checker. But do your maintenance like clock work. I blew the fan and the NIC in one hour and I knew the chip wouldn't be far behind. This is thing is like a Honda Civic- gives you a good 70-80k miles until all hell breaks loose and when that happens use it for parts! But if you're not going to run system maintenance regularly, expect it to crap out on you within 4-6 months so take care of it and it'll last.