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    Aspire 9303

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Lucy77, Jul 19, 2007.

  1. Lucy77

    Lucy77 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi,

    I'm thinking about buying the aspire 9303 under the following specs:

    AMD Mobile Turion 64 X2 Dual Core TL-52
    1600MHz HyperTransport
    512KB Cache
    2GB RAM
    256MB nVidia Geforce Go 7300 Graphics

    But I've read a couple of negative reviews about them saying the AMD Turion processor is slow and isn't up to the task when it comes to running Vista...

    Anybody agree/disagree? Would appreciate your feedback..

    Thanks :)
     
    Lucy77, Jul 19, 2007
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  2. bigspin

    bigspin My Kind Of Place

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    Yes Turion Processor is slow buy C2D one :D
    BTW It will handle vista.

    How much is it?????
     
    bigspin, Jul 19, 2007
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  3. Lucy77

    Lucy77 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thanks bigspin :)

    It's £650, unfortunately though I can't buy one with a C2D because of where I have to buy it from and they only sell them with the AMD...

    Oh well... looks like I need to re-think..

    thanks again
     
    Lucy77, Jul 19, 2007
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  4. miner

    miner Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    The TX2 is more than capable of running Vista in its full glory. The C2D's will be faster but for regular use the TX2 is more than capable. You are only going to notice the difference in benchmarks and cpu intensive applications like audio/video encoding etc. Gaming is going to be pretty much limited by the graphcs card.
     
    miner, Jul 19, 2007
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  5. bigspin

    bigspin My Kind Of Place

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    Do you really need 17" Notebook :confused:

    Don't spend £650 for AMD. :) Try to buy Aspire 5920G :D I have it & Performance is fine + can play games well

    Aspire 5920 For £799
    http://www.acernotebooks.co.uk/Acer_Aspire_5920WSMi_Laptop_LX.AGS0X.015/version.asp?refsource=pgrabber

    Aspire 9303 For £539.97
    http://www.acernotebooks.co.uk/Acer_Aspire_9303WSMi_LX.AWR0X.044/version-1.asp
     
    bigspin, Jul 19, 2007
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  6. FIBIRDRE

    FIBIRDRE Notebook Enthusiast

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    The 9303 is a decent system and stable, I personally own a model similiar to and I have had no issues with it.
     
    FIBIRDRE, Jul 19, 2007
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