Acer Aspire 5050-5430 14.1" Laptop Computer (AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core TK-53, 1 GB RAM, 120 GB Hard Drive, Dual-Layer DVD-RW, WXGA, Windows Vista Home Premium) | 
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| Brand: Acer
Category: Personal Computer
Buy Refurbished: $619.99
Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 739
Operating System: Windows XP Professional Edition
CPU Manufacturer: Intel
CPU Speed: 2.10
CPU Type: PowerPC G4
Processors: 1
System Memory: 2000
Memory Type: SDRAM
Hard Drive Size: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
MPN: LX.AXD0X.057
Model: Aspire 5050-5430
UPC: 099802279325
EAN: 0099802279325
ASIN: B000XUZIIG
Availability: Usually ships in 1-3 weeks
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| Features:
| • | AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core TK-53 1.7GHz | | • | 1GB DDR2 RAM Memory | | • | 120 GB Hard Disk Drive | | • | Windows Vista Home Premium |
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Product Description
Take your mobile computing further with this Acer Aspire 5050-5430 14.1-inch widescreen notebook!Backed by an Athlon 64 X2 1.7 GHz processor and 1 GB of RAM, this Aspire is ready to take on any workload. Its massive 120 GB hard drive provides ample storage space for all your applications, games, pictures, videos, music, data files and more. Plus, this notebook comes with Windows Vista Home Premium preloaded and ready to go right out of the box!Upload and transfer your digital media with ease with the built-in 5-in-1 card reader. Create your own CDs and DVDs to share with family and friends, listen to CDs and watch DVDs on the SuperMulti DVD RW double layer drive. Connect to the Internet with the 56k modem, 10/100 Fast Ethernet or 802.11b/g Wireless LAN.Video conference with co-workers, or spice up your instant messenger sessions with the built-in Acer OrbiCam that rotates up to 225-degrees. This Acer Aspire 5050-5430 features a 14.1-inch WXGA Acer CrystalBrite LCD display and ATI Radeon Xpress 1100 graphics to deliver crystal clear images and text for your viewing pleasure. Order yours today!
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| Customer Reviews:
 For $600 is a nice deal July 10, 2008
Andres Jimenez Vega (Costa Rica)
I bought this computer last January. For the price of $600 is really a bargain.
Problems: After two months the web cam only could be used if I was logged to the messenger.
You might want to have it on a cool place because the computer and the ac adaptor become very hot, but I haven't have any failure yet
For the Ram, you might want to consider to at least but another 512mb of memory, you do that, and that machine would fly
No Windows Vista cd is included, that is bad, and for the drivers you must dowload them from the ACER site
But believe me, is a nice deal, still works like the first day (only the webcam issue )
 Battery Issue June 26, 2008
Mr. D. (San Diego, CA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought it in Dec 07 and battery went out of commission in May 08. It wouldn't charge no more than 2%. Also when I start the computer with the battery on it hangs up for A VERY LONG time!
To replace the battery costs [...] There was another user that had a similar issue, and Acer was replacing certain batteries for a known issue. Unfortunately they would not replace mine!! So now I have a mobile DESKTOP.... since I have removed the battery and have it plugged in all the times.
Also 1GB memory is too low and works very very slow. I upgraded to 2GB and works great!
Wifi has a toggle switch (to turn on/off). Even after I disable wifi after few minutes wifi comes back up. I have learned to live with this now, but for this reason I prefer to have a hard on/off switch to turn off wifi whenever I don't need it.
It is said to have 120GB, but I guess someone screwed up on the bytes to GB conversion and computer actually shows only 101.9GB!
Terrible Power Supply Connector June 25, 2008
Book Girl (St. Louis, MO)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This laptop (Acer 5050) performs well. I have been very pleased with how it runs. The problem is that the power supply adaptor is defective. This happens so often, there is actually an external charger sold for the battery that you can find on amazon. I have had the adaptor connection on the laptop go out twice in 18 months. What's worse is unlike HP laptops, there is no docking station port to get around this problem. Acer will temperarely fix the problem for 400$, and is very unsympathetic in regards to helping me or their other customers find a solution. For this reason, I unfortunately had to give an otherwise good product a 1 star :(
Too bad because this would otherwise be a cost effective laptop, but with the mounting repair bills, it quickly becomes one of the most expensive laptops one will ever own.
 Good LAPTOP May 6, 2008
Lanette Roi
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Works great, but like all ACER laptops, make sure to use a chill mat to protect your computer. If it gets too hot, ACER computers have been known to die because of overheating.
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