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    Aspire 5742G, anyone bought one? Thoughts etc?

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Zeptinune, Mar 4, 2011.

  1. Zeptinune

    Zeptinune Notebook Evangelist

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    Looking at buying a Aspire 5742G with these specs:

    Operating System ¶ and ¤ ¤ Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
    Memory Card Readers Y ¤
    Webcam Yes ¤
    Dimensions (W x D x H) 38 x 25 x 2,5 / 3,4 cm
    Weight 2.6 kg
    12 month warranty
    View ¤ 15.6 "LED (1366 x 768)
    Processor INTEL ® Core ™ I5-480m
    Memory 4 GB (max 8 GB)
    Hard Drive 500 GB
    GPU ¤ NVIDIA ® GeForce ® GT 540m 1 GB
    Optical Drive DVD Super Multi
    Wireless access WLAN
    Battery life Up to 3 hours

    Anyone got any opinions or thoughts etc about the machine? I'd love to know what you think of it :)