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    no more 4500's???

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by zballz, Jan 16, 2005.

  1. zballz

    zballz Notebook Enthusiast

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    Im shopping for a TM 4502Wlmi at the moment. The guy at the shop told me that the 4500-series is stopping from production? Can anyone confirm this? I cant find anything about it on the net? And I wonder if it is true, and why would they???

    Another thing I wonder about. I keep reading reviews and stuff about a Travelmate 4504 - but I cant find it on acers own site? Why? And where can you buy the 4504? (Its supposed to have a 128 mb gfx card and bluetooth - the two only thing I am missing from the 4502 - with the extra ram for gfx and bluetooth - its PERFECT! Only thing is I cant find it anywhere!?!?!?
     
    zballz, Jan 16, 2005
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    Venombite Notebook Virtuoso

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    It might be discontinued (soon) in North America, but may still be available in Europe/UK. I know it's a lot more difficult to locate the Wide Screen models in the US. If they did stop production, it's probably to update the line with a newer design, therefore new series.

    The 4504 may only be available in Europe/UK. They usually have the hard to find models with all the great specs. Just like the Travelmate 4000 series, the European models have an ATI 9700 GPU, while the ones in North America have a cheap Intel Extreme Graphics 2 card with shared video memory.

    -Vb-
     
    Venombite, Jan 18, 2005
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    zballz Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thx!
     
    zballz, Jan 19, 2005
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