Comments on: Acer Aspire 5516-5474 – Athlon TF-20 / 1.6 GHz – RAM 2 GB – HDD 160 GB – DVD?RW

By: Damian

Damian — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:30:04 +0000

I bought this laptop at an excellent price. For the money, this is a great laptop for those who need to surf webs, microsoft word/excel, movies, burn CD/DVD, etc. Only negative is that it came with Vista and lots of extra softwares I dont need. This laptop came with 1 stick of 2GB of memory, and I bought an extra 2GB (for only $25) and installed it. With extra memory, it performs alot faster with Vista and I was able to do more multi-taskings. If you dont like Vista, XP can be installed on this. For the price you cant beat it.

By: Oded

Oded — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:11:13 +0000

Nippy enough machine, decent full size keyboard & screen, very usable touchpad unlike so many out there. Paid $300 at Micro Center (store pickup only). For what it’s worth it’s WEI base score is 3.0 (Processor 3.4, MOPS 4.8, Graphics (both) 3.0, Hard Disk 5.4. Well recommended unless you want small or light.

By: Zulema

Zulema — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:57:49 +0000

I bought this item for my cousin, who wanted an inexpensive laptop with a wireless network adapter to connect to the Internet from anywhere in his home. I set up the Vista operating system for him, and took a good look at the laptop’s features in the process. There’s a lot of plastic in the construction, so it’s not the most durable design compared to more pricey laptops, but overall it’s a fair tradeoff for the price paid.
I would certainly recommend this item to anyone looking for a decent quality laptop with all the essential bells and whistles, and a Great price at $329 shipped. The 15.6″ screen is quite nice, more of a rectangular format than square, but still roomy for displaying multiple windows. With a 1 year warranty from Acer, it was money well spent. I even thought of keeping it for myself after taking it out of the box and viewing it for the first time, and I’m a very discerning computer technician! If the price is still the same, BUY IT, just don’t drop it, and use an external keyboard when you can because the laptop’s keyboard is very light to the touch and may not be what your fingers are used to. 4 stars for the bang for the buck and the features package…