Acer 4600 review Travlmate
Acer TravelMate 4600 offers more than enough performance, battery life and conform to the characteristics of home users and small businesses interested in simple tasks, such as email, web browsing and document creation. We believe that the $ 1149 price tag is pretty excellent, but you should know that spares Acer phone support. If the 24 / 7 help is vital to you, find a small more expensive than PCs, such as the HP Compaq Presario V4000 or the Gateway M460S.
TravelMate 4600 is towards the lighter end of medium-sized packaging. Weighs 6 4 pounds and is 13 2 inches wide, 11 2 inches deep, and 1 4 inch thick. Compared with the HP Compaq Presario V4000 weighs 6 5 kilograms, while the Gateway M360X comes at 6 2 kg. TravelMate 4600 is three points, 0 8 pounds of AC adapter is about the size of the cell phone bar of candy.
Laptop features Acer's signature ergonomically curved keyboard that makes typing more comfortable. The touch pad is wide enough, but the mouse buttons are still too small, is among a large roll. Although the system has no control of media, is a handy Wi-Fi / off and three Quick Launch Buttons-configurable applications. In silence, but sometimes hard to DVD drive and a couple of noisy internal fan is running at startup.
We had a TravelMate 4600 is large, bright 15-inch screen, but we want a higher native resolution of 1024 x 768 (XGA). The front two speakers system under distorted, and the maximum.
TravelMate 4600 includes a comprehensive collection of ports, jacks, and slots that we have seen in the $ 1149 laptop. The right edge is the infrared port, one Type II PC Card slot, and 6-in-1 card reader that supports all major flash memory cards. The rear end of Gigabit Ethernet interface ports, and four-pin FireWire, S-Video out, docking, VGA, DVI and USB-2. 0. The left edge has headphone, microphone, modem 56 Kbps, three USB-2. 0 ports, and integrated single-layer DVD burner. This feature selection is slightly better than the HP Compaq Presario V4000, which costs $ 400 more than the TravelMate 4600.
After the Windows XP Professional operating system, you will not receive a lot of software TravelMate 4600. Acer Packages Cyberlink PowerDVD and NTI CD & DVD Maker for disc playback and burning accordingly. Acer The only other application is a utility for managing passwords, power management, and other basic settings. This package is a typical laptop.
We tested the TravelMate 4600, the second of two complete systems, TravelMate 4600 series. TravelMate 4600 has a suggested retail price is $ 1149, but found that most online retailers are price over $ 1200. But, that has a lot of time, bearing in mind respect for the variety of system components, such as quick 2GHz Pentium M 760, 1GB of quick 533MHz RAM, large 100 GB hard drive running at 5400 rpm decent and the Intel 915GM chipset, that a loan of up to 128, the use of main memory VRAM.
Classes benchmarks', TravelMate 4600 to make the most of its parts. He ran 25 percent quicker than the $ 1579 HP Compaq Presario V4000, which is a hard disk drive slower than 4200 rpm, and 26 per cent quicker than the $ 1370 Gateway M360X, which is less than 1 processor 7GHz Pentium M 735 with only 512 MB of RAM, and 4200-rpm hard drive. Although the speed difference is not necessarily obvious when conducting such basic tasks as e-mail multitasking and word processing, and people who want to work with a lot of windows open is likely to benefit from additional performance the TravelMate.
TravelMate 4600 has also proven to be successful we need Labs tests the battery: the battery lasts over 4 hours, 1 minute. Both the Presario V4000 and the M360X extended about three hours.
TravelMate 4600, we can live an average of one year warranty, which includes shipping service in the service. But, we are disappointed the company has not complied with its 24 / 7 telephone support request. Acer tech support claims calls made outside business hours of the "living" (Monday through Friday from 7 am to 9 pm and weekends from 8 am to 5 pm CT) are returned within one hour. But, we are calling, and left a message 3 p. million PT on Sunday, and high-tech representative never returned our call. Worse still, they can turn to their brilliant electronic properties, such as real-time high-tech support chats, since Acer does not offer.
Power Acer TravelMate 4600 (Longer bars indicate better performance) Battery Acer LCBTP03003BT part. T5003. 001 Acer LCBTP03003 type is Li-ion battery. You can supply more energy than the average time for the battery. This is a 4400mAh capacity and production, 14 80 volts.
System configurations: Acer TravelMate 4600Windows XP Pro, 2 GHz Intel Pentium M 760, 1GB DDR2 PC4300 SDRAM 533 MHz, Intel 915GM/GMS 910GML Express 128 Battery Power Supply Seagate ST9100822A 100GB 5,400 rpm

About Acer Acer Inc. can be referred to be amongst the most ancient electronics companies as far as computer industry is concerned. It was founded by Stan Shih in the year 1976. Originally, it was named ‘Multitech’ then. ‘Acer’ was the name bought later. The present scenario is such that it’s a leader in the corporate world of Taiwan and as such, is the 3rd largest manufacturer of computers, followed by HP, Dell. Products Acer is known for giving what you robust protducts, at a cheap price, with no compromise on the quality front. The product range of Acer is inclusive of notebooks, desktops, PDA, portable tablet personal computers, show monitors, software and hardware solutions. Acer laptops and show monitors have always been on the top of different review sites and listings. Laptops Acer laptops have a number of variants depending upon market trend as well as technology. Series presented by Acer include Tablet PC Series, TravelMate series, Extensa series, Ferrari series, and Aspire series. The ‘Acer Aspire’ series is the most renowned and broadly used all through the world. All novel Gemstone variants have been highly stylish. Moreover, they come with ‘High Definition Dolby Digital Sound System’. These series start with 4520. The newest model on the hands is Acer Aspire 8920 model. Let’s have a look at the currently available Acer laptops. The Aspire and Extensa are essentially the “entry level” lines. While they are not equipped with the fastest processors or largest hardrives, the Aspire deliver a very acceptable overall speed if you are an “average user” meaning that you are not an avid gamer or heavy database user. For that matter if most of use is web surfing, email, word processor, spreadsheet. . . type of activity, chances are that you would barely notice a difference with quicker and more expensive laptops. One thing though, make sure you have at least 2GB of RAMs to ensure excellent speed; it is a mystery to me that companies still sell laptops with less than 2 GB when using Microsoft Vista, the cost saving is not worth the potential speed loss. The TravelMate series has been designed especially for business travelers and professionals. These series would give you an extended reliability, along with light-weight notebooks with the highest securities. The TravelMate series starts with the models between 2480 and 8210. Let certain models be looked into. The Ferrari can be considered to be one of the major hits in the laptop arena. Acer has partnered with Ferrari to deliver high-end products with exciting features and a fantastic look. These laptops have a sporty style. Models available include Ferrari 1000, 4000, and 5000. The cost range is reported to vary between $1800 and $4000. Conclusion In small, Acer delivers excellent to fantastic quality and its pricing strategy is very aggressive on the Aspire, Extensa and TravelMate lines. The Ferrari line is more targeted to high end users on one hand but also and maybe mostly for user who like fashionable laptops (similar in that sense to the MacBook Air users). Acer is rapidly expanding in the laptops market and will most likely prove to be formidable leader in the years to come.