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Greetings.
This are my opinions about this notebook.
Pros:
+ Price
+ Looks (silver)
+ Performance
+ Hardware components (60gb, centrino 1.6 dothan...)
+ Recorder (8x, dual-layer, pioneer)
Cons:
- Touchpad (this is the worst touchpad I ever use!!! it has the lousest grip I ever SAW!!! it is not smooth, not precise and in a word it SUX!)
- Screen (colors are washed out, very bad vertical angle, not a single angle were I can see the screen perfectly, slow response)
- Sound (lousy speakers, and the WORST codec I ever see. Only 11 voices... conexant. A pain in the ass to make it work in Fedora core 3)
- Heating (the notebook does not get too hot, but it gets hot in the keyboard and only in the right side of the notebook... It anoyme alot really).
- Frontal USB and frontal IR (wtf, what the heck were the designers smoking the day they design this?!)
- Battery reporting wrong values to the system (like 130%) [at least for me and for some of my friends].
- Keyboard (It is very silent and confortable but sometimes it misses my strokes. I'm a fast writter. Not really a problem to someone who type slowly)
In a word, this is a cheap notebook. Quality wise, I think it is not up to the level of a ASUS (not to refer sonys or samsungs), and so it is not the best value out there. Asus M6 cost not much more but it gives you alot (quality wise) for the money you pay.
Veredict:
RECOMMENDED to someone on budget, and that does not have money for another model with the same specs
NOT RECOMMENDED to someone who (like me) has some extra money to spend on a better quality laptop
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yeah darkvoid you right what you said,acer 4002 price s so cheap.And lots of specs it has...[
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Now that's a good laught!!
Are you saying that the screen on your 1683 is on par with a Toshiba Trubrite, a HP BrightView or IBM Flexview screen? You should be dreamin man.
Or you have your eyeball burnt by your wonderfull 1683 display.
You bought a cheap notebook. Don't make it like it is the best notebook in the world It's cheap, and it's good to someone who does not have money to something better. No more, no less. Now, just because you own a ACER don't came here and say it got the best screen in the world!
And by the way, I bought two ASUS W1N (for my company), and I payed for it (so no ASUS sponsoring here).
And you know what? It is like night and day, the difference from my (now returned) 4002. Not a single problem, screen is great, no heating on top of notebook, not a single keystroke missed, sound is amazing, looks are amazing. What can I say? Worth every penny I spent on it (more 500 than the 4002).
And now, I will bought to my personal use a Toshiba M30X with trubrite. It is just like the x-black screen on Sony's. (Oh, maybe sony screen is worst than your 1683 Screen, too!!!). It will be 600 more but I think it will worth it too.
And in my quest I learnt that there is not such thing as free quality, quality cost money but IMHO, quality worth it! It's like a no-brand-and-cheap whiskey vs 15'year's old whiskey. All of them got the same ingredients, all of them are whiskeys, but 15'old branded whiskey tastes much better. Of course you can be drunk with both of them, but the 15'years old is way better, isn't it? -
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Lol, és tuga[
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Pá, calma lá, por este preço n é assim tão mau. Só o teclado é que me lixa msm.
*# Acer TravelMate 4001WLMi #*
Intel Pentium M 715 1.5Ghz 2MB Cache (Dothan)
512MB PC2700 DDR333
ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 (64MB)
15.4' WXGA wide (16:10) TFT
60GB Hitachi HDD
DVD-DUAL (DVD+-RW)
802.11b/g Wireless LAN -
Why are u being so lame? Do you even know why the fu#k does it gets hotter on the right side? The CPU and MR9700 are there! And why?, I hear you ask... Because if you are playing some FPS games you will have your left hand on the left side of the keyboard and the other on the mouse. This is pure engineering. What drives me mad with this laptop is the damn keyboard that misses a few of my keystrokes (and I hate to be constantly reading on the screen)[
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*# Acer TravelMate 4001WLMi #*
Intel Pentium M 715 1.5Ghz 2MB Cache (Dothan)
512MB PC2700 DDR333
ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 (64MB)
15.4' WXGA wide (16:10) TFT
60GB Hitachi HDD
DVD-DUAL (DVD+-RW)
802.11b/g Wireless LAN -
Greets.
My loses too, it missed one keystroke in every phrase I typed.
My 2012 was worst, one key missed in every word.
This is not a one-person-only-with-bad-luck problem.
And you know what maia, maybe you will find out, like myself, that that is a problem you should learn to live with. On the 2012, threee keyboards, all with the same error. Thank god I could return the 4002! If not, today I would be with the same problem.
Some people are complaining about this, some are not. I think that someone who types really fast has the problem. If I type really slow, the keyboard don't miss one stroke.
And one thing: "Mine almost never looses keystrokes" is different than "Mine does not miss one keystroke at all".
To elvilla:
1) touchpad grip is bad. of course, if you use a usb mouse, you won't miss a good touchpad
2) screen is good, but for a little more money you can buy a much better one
3) sound is very bad, and even the codec is bad. you can't get a good sound out of the headphone jack (at least, i couldn't). you can buy a better sounding notebook for a little more money, or you can buy a audigy notebook. This codec has only 11 voices in the mixer!!!
4) heating is not something that burns you. the problem is that it heats on the top of the notebook, where you rest your arms. some other notebook heat on the top (near the screen), and someothers does not even eat at all on the top of the notebook (on the keyboard and rest area). it could not be a problem for you, to have one side of the notebook hotter than the other side, and that heat is on your wrist rest area.
5) battery last for 4-5h. sometimes it will report more that 100% charge. The problem is that the battery sometimes report to windows that it's max capacity is 44000mAh, but in reality, it is 63000mAh. SO, if you have more that 44000mAh charge in the bat, it will give you value larger that 100%.
6) keyboard is a major concern. In the first week I had not a single problem with it. But then, when I got used to it, I started to type faster and ... a lots of missed keystrokes.
Take a good decision
Review: ACER 4002 WLMI
Discussion in 'Acer' started by rjtd, Nov 18, 2004.
