Acer TravelMate 650
The TravelMate 650 is an exciting new notebook from Acer—thin and stylish, it is nevertheless slightly on the heavy side.
This new Acer features an Intel Pentium 4 2.0GHz processor, 256MB of RAM, a 40GB hard disk drive, and a DVD/CD-RW combo drive. It has a Smart Card reader as well as a single Type II PC Card Slot. There was no shortage of USB ports—four in total—and what surprised us was that it still managed to house all the common legacy ports on the back of the notebook. Unlike any of the other notebooks, it has a Smart Media slot, which will come in handy for transferring images from your digital camera. There’s also an SD slot on the front of the notebook.
The Acer was quite fast in all of our tests. The Acer ran all the tests at 1024 x 768, which is its native mode. The other notebooks had higher native modes. The main reason for this was the fact that the display was limited in terms of display resolution and in terms of image quality the display was very poor.
| Product: | Acer TravelMate 650 |
| Price: | AU$5,499 |
| Vendor: | Acer Computer |
| Phone: | 1300 366 567 |
| Web: | www.acer.com.au |
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| Interoperability: |
Excellent range of connectors. |
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LCD display is not as good as the others. |
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| ROI: |
Excellent performer at a great price. |
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| Service: |
½1 year warranty; 2-hour repair RTB. |
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