Acer Aspire 5515 $348.

[htcmda]

Some walmarts have this laptop for $348, and others $388, i dunno why its 40 cheaper in some stores.

amd athlon 2650e 1.6ghz
160gb HD
3gb ram
8x dvd
vista


can't seem to find a link directly to it online at walmart.com
but i personally saw this in the store, and found other sources of info confirming that my eyes weren't on crack.

google it.

[obso1337]

Is this laptop good though? i couldn't find any reviews.

[the_1]

For netbook prices I'd say it's good. Acer are usually pretty durable.

[SomeGuyDude68]

Hey saw this post and felt like i had to join to say that this is a great deal for a laptop.... Im on the Aspirer 5515 i bought for my mom because her old comp was crap. I also paid the extra $60 for and additional 2 year warranty. The laptop is fast and seems to have pretty good specs. Vista is awesome on it, im not sure if its built for intense stuff like gamings or graphic designing but i dont have any complaints about it, except the battery life is like 2 n half hours... but i think thats kinda normal for laptops. Anyways, i bought mine at wal-mart in like kentucky on my way back from florida and i want to buy another one for myself but no wal-marts around me here in wisconsin have them... Get them while you can!

[Charles P. Jefferies]

The Athlon 2650e processor is single-core, so don't expect much in terms of performance beyond everyday tasks. 3GB of RAM is nice though, Vista likes a lot of RAM.

$348 (+tx) is a very good price for a notebook though . . . and Acer's Aspire series has decent build quality.

[jbsytes]

I play World of Warcraft on mine with little to no lag. I'd like to know about upgrades ie processor video. Is this possible, or are we just stuck with it as is.

[joon82]

frys has it for same price.

[thxkid]

ok bought one for my wife and one for my parents at $348 each. these are pretty fast machines plays any averagee game great, set ours up for ripping, burning converting and authoring DVD's. does a decent job, ripped and shrank then burned a DVD in under 20min. I authored 2 Divx AVI movies to DVD ready files in a hour each. the 8x burned burns single layers in under 10min. took about 40min for a dual layer at 4x. I compared all the video stuff i did to my intel dual core 3.6gig processor with 2gigs of ram with XP pro SP3 and the acrer was twice the time, but that exspected for this sigle core processor at this speed, this acer replaced a dell laptop that had a 2.8gig intel single core processor that was 4 years old, the acer is as fast on some items but faster on others compared to the dell, one thing for sure make sure to burn your drivers, software and backup onto the a DVD when your up and going as they do not provide one, everything is on a ghost drive, 1st time up I deleted some software needed from the acer, with no DVD burned yet, I used the one button format back to original settings and it did that in about 20minutes, so that works fine, I now have burned everything I need onto a DVD. one small glitch is that the hard drive comes split into 3 partitions, 60gig for C, 70gig for D and 10gig for the ghost drive, no waya round that unless you format the drive and put another operating system on it. even though I hate vista(a pain to try to edited clean up in it) once your done and start using it, its extremely fast for internet use, much faster than my XP Pro machines, so impressed there, so far only had one program I could not install on it that I had on my XP machines and that was Roxio 7.0, seems only Roxio 9.0 and higher is vista compatable, strange my nero 7.7 or 8.0 works fine on it, comes with it owns burning software you must leave on to have the auto backup work thats NTI, never used this before. programs like windows word 2003 pro, AVG, winavi, powerdvd 8, vuze, tpmgne programs, tons of different games all went on ans work great, I also went ahead and bought walmarts 2 year protection plan, so far very impressed with this laptop

[joon82]

Got it for my dad. Fairly good built for only $348(372 after tax)
Installed Windows XP and it runs really quick. It even boot faster and runs program faster than my 6831(vista). Really hate vista.
Tried to get other cheap laptops but most of them can not run windows XP due to drivers.
It was easy to find drivers(you only need 3 drivers after installing windows XP SP3. Display(x1200), wireless card(arthos), Sound(realtec)

Going to pick up another one for my bro who needs notebook with windows XP

[the_1]

Sounds like a good deal after all. You might try and install Windows 7 on it. It's certainly better than Vista even in beta form.