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The best bottom of the line machine i've every bought
One lesson that my father drilled into me is that you get what you pay for. If you buy bottom of the line you will get a bottom of the line item. The Acer 5532 does its best to prove my father wrong.

The ram at 3 gigs is less than almost any new machine, it has only 2 usb ports, the memory card reader is a simple push in, the hard drive of 160 gig is smaller than almost any new machine you will buy, there is no web cam and the AMD Athlon TF-20 1.60 gh processor is not a racehorse in any sense of the word.

But this machine cost me only 0 (including tax) new! I've given it a heavy workload in blogging and writing and it has done the job. The screen is crisp and clear, everything functions fine, the battery life is only 2 1/2 hours but that is adequate for my needs and the Windows 7 OS has proven itself to be all that Microsoft claimed it is.

My only complaint has been the right arrow key which has proven itself kind of weak, and the size of the touchpad area tends to make it easy for my hand to accidentally brush it when typing.

This machine does everything I want in a laptop for a price that is affordable in very tough times for me. Maybe when I'm doing better I might consider a system with a bit more OOMPH but if you need a new system and want to do so on a shoestring this does the job, I mean cripes for the price of my son's Apple we could have bought one of these for each member of the family and still had 0 left over.

The specs certainly make this bottom of the line but not bottom of the barrel. It is a good starting laptop for a youth or an elder just beginning their computer use.

I'd buy it again.

Darn good puter!
I have owned this computer for 6 months and it still runs like new. It does just about anything you would normally do. In the ad it never said it had a mic or camera so who ever posted that was refering to a different model. I've had it for six months and I live on it due to my job and home life, and is just like new. What is sad is when I purchased this laptop I had never heard of this company and the computer is exellent, but before I had a Sony Vaio and it didn't last but 6mo.s and BestBuy replaced it with this one due to product malfunction. I have to say somtimes name brands are not all they are cracked up to be. One thing to remember is to get educated about protecting your computer and do what is necessary and you should not have any serious problems. I was very uneducated when I first got a puter and it took me 3 yrs. to understand it so I understand easier said than done, but take the time to protect it it is in the end a machine not alive and cannot fix itself and protect itself without your help.

so far so good
bought this laptop yesterday, and so far no problems yet. Internet browsing, email and basic MS Office tasks are adequate for my needs. I also bought a wireless mouse since the mouse controls on the keyboard seem a bit flimsy.
In addition, I deleted the games file (99 mb's) in size and the computer's running faster now.

Overall, from my short exposure to it, the laptop is adequate.