Dr Gadget - Gadget Shop - Aspire SA90, Intel Celeron 925 Dual Core, 512MB RAM, 160GB HDD, DVD RW, SIS® MirageTM 3 graphics up to 128MB, 9 in 1 Card Reader,PS2 Keybaord and ball mouse, Vista Home Basic

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Binding: Electronics Brand: Acer EAN: 4718235874872 Label: Acer Manufacturer: Acer Model: Acer Aspire SA90 Publisher: Acer Release Date: 2007-07-31 Studio: Acer
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Flawed but easily remedied Comment: Imagine buying a Ford Focus and it came fitted with only two of the normal four spark plugs (do cars have spark plugs anymore?). Anyway, performance would be pretty poor and you would not be too pleased. But hey, for £12 you can buy two extra spark plugs and problem solved. You might wionder why Ford did not fit the extra two plugs in the first place? The Acer SA90 is a bit like this. It's a decent, Ford Focus type p.c. Unfortunately, it will come with 512 MB of RAM which is nowhere near enough to operate Vista and it will run very, very slow indeed and you will wish you had kept your old p.c. running XP. But hey, whilst you are ordering your SA90, add a pair of Kingston Technology 1GB 667MHz DDR2 Non-ECC CL5 DIMM to your shopping basket for around £12. Pop them in the memory slots and hey presto, your SA90 runs like a perfectly good Ford Focus. Basically, if you or a pal is happy to fit the extra 2 GIG memory and you don't want to play fast games then this is a perfectly good machine and will run Office and access the Net fine. If you are not happy about fitting the extra memory then buy something with more memory installed. It took me less than five minutes to upgrade to 2 GIG and although I dislike Vista compared to XP, I am otherwise very happy with my purchase which is really good value for money - even with purchasing the extra memory. 4/5 for not fitting the full complement of spark plugs in the first place! Customer Rating: Summary: Runs Like Treacle Comment: I've just sorted out one of these machines for a friend, and I have to say it ran painfully slow. This computer is not up to the job of running Vista. It makes a nice machine running Windows XP or Linux, but you're wasting your time with Vista. The only way to get it running Vista properly is to go out and buy more memory - 2Gb would be a good start. You should not need to do this, with a new machine. I'd personally recommend that people give Vista a wide berth until Microsoft get it sorted, it's just a pain at the moment on most machines I've come across A well priced computer that is let done by a sloppy choice of operating system. If it came with XP installed I'd recommended it to everyone Customer Rating: Summary: My views on Acer Aspire SA90 Comment: My old PC a Targa from Lidle was out of guarantee and the new Hp printer I had bought would not run on it (My O.S.was XP Home). Saw this one in Amazon and decided to go for it as it had Vista. It runs a little slow so I upped the ram today to 1GB, (Perhaps I should have gone higher) Windows media Player does not work to well so you need plug ins or upgrade Windows to Home Premium, that is perhaps what I will do. Not sure about the performance of the DVD RW yet, I had problems with the software first of all but is seems to have improved. But not a bad little machine for the price. Customer Rating: Summary: brilliant start Comment: Saw this computer and bought it becuase i had a tight budget, but dont let this fool you. This computer has plenty of scope to become something excellent if you know what your doing. I now run mine on 4GB of RAM and XP Professional and it is perfect. Next things to upgrade are the graphics card but after all this it will still come under £500! As the computer comes it is poor, Vista doesnt work on most computers and 512MB of RAM is a joke. Spend a little time and about £60 and you wont be disappointed. Customer Rating: Summary: Bargain Comment: Was not too sure what to expect with this pc as it has no reviews of yet. However, it arrived quite promptly (even with the carrier misorting it) and it runs perfectly. It is a bargain for the money and it is very quiet. Still getting used to vista but I have had no probs so far! My only gripe is that all new pc's preinstalled with vista should come with a MINIMUM of 1gb of ram - the preinstalled 512mb is simply not enough to satisfy vista's hog on resources!! Hence, I bought another 2gb of ram from crucial (only 30 quid just now) and have a total of 2.5gb installed now....and it runs rather fast indeed. If you buy this pc you will probably have to do the same; just a friendly heads up. Very happy with the purchase now:) I only gave four stars becuase of the necessity to spend extra money on ram to ensure the pc runs properly like a new pc should: and all becuase of windows vista, the ram muncher... More Reviews
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