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Question About Acer Aspire 5680

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A review of the Acer Aspire 5680 was posted today:

http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=3642

Is this a new, recent product? I'm not sure because I found an article dating the laptop back to October. I couldn't find many sites selling it nor could I find any other reviews. What do you guys think of the 5680? It has really nice specs for a 15.4" laptop. Is Acer reliable? I haven't heard that many people ever mention Acer; notebook fans always talk about DELL, HP, Apple, etc. Is the Acer build quality typically good? Any other input about this item? I would appreciate any responses. If you only want to answer one of these questions, that would be ok. Thanks!

Specs
  • 2.0GHz Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor T7200 (4MB L2 cache, 667MHz FSB)
  • 2GB (1GB + 1GB) DDR2 SDRAM by Samsung, upgradeable to 4GB
  • 160GB 5400RPM SATA Western Digital Hard Drive, formatted capacity 142GB
  • Integrated Slot-load Super-Multi drive (DVD+R, DVD-R, DVD-RAM) by Matshita (Panasonic)
  • 15.4" WXGA (1280 x 800), Acer® CrystalBrite Technology
  • NVIDIA® GeForce® Go 7600-SE with 256MB dedicated memory, up to 528MB TurboCache (272MB shared)
  • Intel Pro wireless 3945 802.11a/b/g WLAN
  • Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet LAN
  • Bluetooth 2.0+ EDR
  • High speed 56k V.92modem
  • Acer OrbiCam™ integrated 1.3 megapixel CMOS camera
  • Acer Bluetooth® VoIP phone
  • Ports: ExpressCard™/34 slot, Type II PC Card slot, 4 USB 2.0, IEEE 1394 port, S-video/TV-out (NTSC/PAL) port, DC-in, RJ-11 modem, RJ-45 LAN, VGA, DVI, headphones/speakers/line-out, microphone/line-in, line-in, 5-in-1 card reader (SD, MMC, MS, MS PRO, xD)
  • Microsoft Windows® Vista Ultimate, English
  • Dimensions: 14.09"L x 10.43"W x 1.41"H
  • Weight: 2.77kg (6.1lb)
post #2 of 4
I assume that this laptop is for the canadian market, that's why you don't find in on many sites.

As for never hearing of Acer, I think you just haven't been around on laptop news. Acer is right now the 3rd biggest laptop manufacturer, behind only HP and Dell.

They have decent build quality, but are more known for budget good price/performance laptops, even tho they have several higher end machines.
post #3 of 4
Acer has been rated recently as the top 3 of laptop sellers, surpassing Toshiba and still behind Dell and HP. I have the 5672 and it is working great. I would have liked the 5680, better specs.. but it doesn't seem to be marketted in all areas.
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Latest PC world reliabilty stats... Again... My Acer's done me proud... No complaints....
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