On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 05:30:23AM -0400, Wesley Darlington wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 10:08:27AM +0100, Liam Bedford wrote:
> > I've had my acer TM 803 for a month and a bit now.. behaves perfectly
> > well as long as I don't use Windows :)
>> :-)
>> Are there particular issues with Windows on this machine then, or are
> these just the usual Windows issues?
I'm not sure.. wireless seems to mess up.. it's got the intel centrino
wireless card, and I've had blue screens related to the driver for that.
I don't use windows enough on it to be bothered trying to fix it.
>> > There is an extension to a 3 year warranty. And Apple and Sony only do 1
> > year by default. Even Dell Inspirons default to a 1 year warranty I think.
>> Good point. The extension is pretty expensive, relative to the price
> of the laptop. (UKP150 vs UKP500, both ex vat)
yeah.. the extension is the same price for all the models, so it's
better value for me.
BTW, dabs.com do a 500 quid laptop most of the time now, toshiba/compaq/ibm.
L.
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