On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:24:35 -0500 Celejar <cele...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:39:26 -0200 > "Ismael Scalcon" <thesupermo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > ... > > > Also, my girlfriend has bought herself an Acer Aspire (not the One), > > and, so far, we had no problems with it. > > I've been using an Acer (Aspire 3690) for about two years with no > problems yet, but I baby it; I've never dropped it, spilled anything > into it, sat on it, etc. The battery life is quite low, only about an > hour and a half when new, but I nearly always use it on AC. [Tangent: > my impression is that that will help preserve the battery life, as > charge / discharge cycles reduce it. Is this true?] > Not completely, what newer batteries hate is heat, over and under charging. If it's always plugged in it may kill the battery rather quickly. What I have on my current thinkpad is the ability to stop charging before 100% and that can add quite a bit of like to the battery. A friend of mine as a lenovo 3000 (very bad track record with them with the university staff), which was always plugged in and almost always on, the battery is mostly dead in a year. > I've never dealt with Acer support. > > This was already a low end machine when I purchased it, but it is quite > usable for my needs: > > Celeron M 420 @ 1.6GHZ > 512MB RAM (recently upgraded to 2GB, not because I needed it, but > because I found a steal on RAM) > 60GB HDD > Broadcom wireless (4318, supported perfectly by b43) > 15 inch screen, Intel 945GM graphics > Intel 82801G stuff inside > > The OP asked about performance, but IIUC, that will depend mostly on > the actual components used, not on the build quality or any special > sauce of the integrator. I daresay I'm oversimplifying, and I'll > appreciate corrections > > Celejar > -- > mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email > ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
