Acer travlmate 4600 laptop review
The Acer TravelMate 4600 provides added than abundant performance, array life, and appearance to amuse home and small-business users absorbed in simple tasks such as e-mailing, Web surfing, and certificate creation. We anticipate its $1,149 amount tag is appealing good, admitting you should apperceive that Acer skimps on buzz support. If 24/7 advice is important to you, attending to hardly added big-ticket laptops, such as the HP Compaq Presario V4000 or the Gateway M460S.
The TravelMate 4600 avalanche against the lighter end of the midsize pack. It weighs 6.4 pounds and measures 13.2 inches wide, 11.2 inches deep, and 1.4 inches thick. By comparison, the HP Compaq Presario V4000 weighs 6.5 pounds, while the Gateway M360X comes in at 6.2 pounds. The TravelMate 4600′s three-prong, 0.8-pound AC adapter is about the admeasurement of a bonbon bar corpuscle phone.
The laptop appearance Acer’s signature ergonomically arced keyboard, which makes accounting added comfortable. The blow pad is advanced enough, but the abrasion buttons are uncomfortably small; a ample annal button sits amid them. Admitting the arrangement lacks multimedia controls, it has a accessible Wi-Fi on/off button and three configurable quick-launch buttons for applications. It operates quietly, except for the occasionally loud DVD burner and a few blatant spins of the centralized fan at bootup.
We admired the TravelMate 4600′s large, bright, 15-inch display, but we ambition it had a college built-in resolution than 1,024×768 (XGA). The system’s two speakers on the advanced bend lacked bass and adulterated at abounding volume.
The TravelMate 4600 includes one of the best complete collections of ports, jacks, and slots that we’ve apparent in a $1,149 laptop. The appropriate bend accommodates an bittersweet port, one Type II PC Agenda slot, and a 6-in-1 agenda clairvoyant that supports all of the above beam anamnesis cards. The aback bend appearance a Gigabit Ethernet jack added ports for four-pin FireWire, S-Video out, docking, VGA, DVI, and USB 2.0. The larboard bend has headphone, microphone, and 56Kbps modem jacks, three added USB 2.0 ports, and the chip single-layer DVD burner. This affection alternative is hardly added acceptable than that of the HP Compaq Presario V4000, which costs $400 added than the TravelMate 4600.
Beyond the Windows XP Professional operating system, you don’t get abundantcomputer appliance with the TravelMate 4600. Acer bundles CyberLink PowerDVD and NTI CD & DVD Maker for disc playback and burning, respectively. The alone added appliance is an Acer account for managing passwords, ability management, and added basal settings. This amalgamation is archetypal for a bargain laptop.
We activated the TravelMate 4600, one of two preconfigured systems in the TravelMate 4600 series. The TravelMate 4600 has a appropriate retail amount of $1,149, admitting we begin that best online resellers accept priced it at added than $1,200. Still, that’s a appealing acceptable deal, because the system’s admirable mix of components, including a fast 2GHz Pentium M 760 processor, 1GB of accelerated 533MHz RAM, a huge 100GB adamantine drive alternating at a appropriate 5,400rpm, and an Intel 915GM chipset that borrows a best 128MB of capital anamnesis to use as VRAM.
In Labs’ criterion tests, the TravelMate 4600 took abounding advantage of its components. It ran 25 percent faster than the $1,579 HP Compaq Presario V4000, which has a slower 4,200rpm adamantine drive, and 26 percent faster than the $1,370 Gateway M360X, which has a slower 1.7GHz Pentium M 735 processor, aloof 512MB RAM, and a 4,200rpm adamantine drive. Admitting the acceleration aberration ability not be accessible back administering such basal tasks as e-mail and chat processing, multitaskers and bodies who like alive with lots of windows accessible will apparently account from the TravelMate’s added performance.
The TravelMate 4600 additionally accepted a champ in our Labs’ battery-drain tests: its array lasted for a continued 4 hours, 1 minute. Both the Presario V4000 and the M360X captivated out for about three hours.
We can alive with the TravelMate 4600′s boilerplate one-year warranty, which includes mail-in or carry-in service. But we’re aghast with the company’s abortion to accomplish its 24/7 phone-support claim. Acer claims that tech-support calls placed alfresco of “live” hours (Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. and weekends from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. CT) will be alternate aural the hour. But we alleged and larboard a bulletin at 3 p.m. PT on a Sunday, and a tech rep never alternate our call. Worse, you can’t about-face to acceptable cyberbanking abutment features, such as real-time tech-support chats, back Acer doesn’t action them.
Power of Acer travelmate 4600
(Longer confined announce added acceptable performance)
Battery allotment Acer LCBTP03003BT.T5003.001
The Acer LCBTP03003 Array Type is Li-ion.It can accumulation added ability time than avg battery.It accept a adequacy of 4400Mah and achievement 14.80 volts.
System configurations:
Acer TravelMate 4600
Windows XP
Pro; 2GHz Intel Pentium M 760;
1GB DDR2 PC4300 SDRAM 533MHz;
Intel 915GM/GMS 910GML
Express 128MB;
Power supplied by array
Seagate ST9100822A 100GB 5,400rpm
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