I don't know if this is a good quality laptop or not, but the specs look great, and genuinely unbeatable for the price (net $499 plus $9.95 postage).
Let us all know any problems with this laptop, or, "why I SHOULD NOT buy it?"
Thanks for your opinions
15.6" is huge screened now?
It's a laptop, not a Netbook… (although some have argued otherwise for the Toshiba earlier today)
it is in my opinion maybe huge was excessive, a laptop would be a portable notebook, usually portable would be under 14"
Actually its a desktop replacement
Not everyone needs to fit a laptop in their man purse. There is certainly a market for larger screened laptops so don't be so quick to call them 'useless'. Uselss for you perhaps, but not for many others.
It's like saying a Stationwagon is useless and everyone should drive 2 door cars. Horses for courses.
@zhenjie: it's not fast enough to be a DTR
i think most normal people have accepted 15.6" as being the avg. size of a cheap laptop
if you can accept the size, go for it…
14" has become a business size almost
This is a 15.6" Notebook Mikinoz… if you want a little netbook go for it, its your choice.
Why useless??… Most cheap "netbooks" do not even have an optical drive… thats what i call useless.
Regardless of the unrelated comments here it is a damn good buy for a robust basic notebook.
Good find Shmahoo !!!!
All sold out now though.<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
surprisingly good value - can't expect much for 500 bills but if you want me to break it down…
it's 15.6 (too big)
it's acer (nuff said)
it's 11g (no 11n?)
it's 10/100 (no GbE)
it's only 1yr (some of the competition is 2yrs)
could do a lot worse
oh yeah, 1,366 x 768 sucks
dude i know! what's with all these crappy laptops with low res screens these days?
Yeah I'd only buy a 15" if the res was higher.
2.4 kg lol sux
i've dealt with a few of these laptops for work.
The cpu is bad, the network card is low quality, the build feels fairly cheap.
It is fine for a general purpose laptop, but they do come out of the factory with hardware errors. 4 out of the 14 we got had hardware issues… but for $500 its an alright laptop
I think a good deal for 500 bucks!
Surely better than some Celerons with Windows Home Basic being sold around the same price last year ;-)
It is not bad for a third or fourth laptop, or for someone who wants to use it for checking mails- without concerns about portability.
And the customer service of Catchoftheday was really excellent.
Cheers,
Varun
These huge sceen notebooks are almost useless, although price is okay for specs