User comments/Reviews on Aspire 3680?

I'm trying to find a lightweight, inexpensive notebook with a spacious keyboard and comfortable monitor for my kid sister (she'll be an entering freshman this summer at the local community college). When I went to college my parents footed the bill as I bought my lovely ibook g4 with Tiger (this was a few years ago, you know). Today, finances are different for us, and I'm footing the bill. I don't have $1500 - I probably have more like $500 - but I still want to get my little sister a laptop that is lighter than what I used to carry, with a large enough keyboard for her to keep up with the professor's lectures and a good wireless card that will make it easy for her to surf the web on-campus. It should also have MS Word, or its word processor should be MS Word-compatible.
Of the lightweight, in-expensive notebook options, it seems that the Acer Aspire 3680 has all of these things my sister will need.
If you have one of these, is it slow to load and open programs out-of-the-box? Does it have issues with wireless connectivity? My sister is not computer-saavy; can she use it without needing to tweak the specs?
If, in your opinion, the Aspire 3680 is NOT in a freshman undergraduate's best interest, what would you suggest in its place?
Thanks!

 

I had one for a few months, it worked ok, but I ended up selling it because of the poor speakers. At full volume, with my head inches away, I could just barely hear loud things, quiet things I couldn't hear at all.

 

I am happy with mine. It is light weight, thin, small, reasonably well built, it has a very good wifi reception. It came with 1 Gb of ram, DVDRW and embedded webcam, here nothing of same price was available with those features. You can also easily add a bluetooth module and update the cpu to a C2Duo, making of it a complete powerful system with decent battery life (with the Celeron the battery will last 100-120 minutes). The only problem i noticed in a year, is that the buttons of the touchpad are starting to lose the paint, becoming white. True also that the sound of speakers isnt a strong point, but sincerely i think it is a common flaw of many small laptops. I would suggest the buy to a friend. A valid alternative is the HP NX7300.