[Ilugc] Acer 5002 notebook
- From: manokaran@xxxxxxxxx (Mano)
- Date: Wed Jul 13 10:40:45 2005
My main complaint is that Acer chose an SiS chipset with UMA instead
of going with separate AGP graphics, for both the 3002 and 5002. I
detest integrated shared-memory graphics - it rates only slightly better
than Winmodems and Rambus on a list of crappy hardware ideas foisted
by marketroids.
Almost every notebook available in India comes with integrated
graphics with shared mem with very few exceptions. Of the Acer models
TM4002WLCi and TM4601WLMi come with discrete AGP (ATI Mobility Radeon
X700 with 64MB RAM). They cost 65K and 72K respectively including a
copy of Win XP Pro. I wrote to Acer and got a response saying TM4601
is also available with Linux OS. Am waiting for the dealer to send me
the price of this. In other brands any model with a discrete AGP is
abv 1 lakh.
Interestingly, another Acer model, Aspire 5500 series (with abv
mentioned graphics card) and almost similar config is available in
Thailand for 50K INR (linux OS)! Considering that it costs just 14K
for a return ticket to Bangkok one can get a notebook and a holiday in
Bangkok for the same price :-)
mano
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