anyone out there using a TM4202wlmi

I know this laptop's pretty new, but I figured that some people might have gone for the $1000 deal at Compusa to get one of these (the specs seem pretty decent). I've had mine for a bit, but haven't done anything more rigorous than web-surfing (still need to spend some time to actually set it up before i can really stress it). Anyone else have any experience? thanks.

 

Cmon share! I am also interested by this baby.

Only lowside to me is the 6 cells only battery and the lack of firewire and svideo. Otherwise, it's a good bang for the buck! About 1200$ CAD for a core duo/DVD-RW and 80 GO.

code_monkey : would you do a review ? Check this out!

 

Sure, I'd be happy to do a review when I've actually gotten some use out of it.

So far I haven't had much time to play with it due to other commitments (it's a shame I can't spend time to set it up because I have to use my old Sony PII 400Mhz VAIO in the meantime).

Hopefully sometime this week, or maybe early next week I can get it setup and will have a full detailed review.

I was a bit annoyed that there's no built in bluetooth or firewire (like the Dell Inspiron 6000 series), but that's easy/cheap enough to fix. If they had the e1505 at the time I got the Acer, I *might* have just gotten that one, but so far the Acer seems like better bang for the buck... and probably a bit nicer design, *and* without all the dell bloatware.

 

Can't wait for it! Thanks

 

Alas, though I would love to do a full review of the TM4202, I can't because I ended up returning it to get a Macbook Pro. This isn't so much to do with the Acer notebook, it's a pretty decent product for the price, but I just wanted something a little sexier, so I ended up going Mac (hard for a long-time PC user).

I'll try to put down some of my thoughts to help out anyone looking at this notebook. I got it for $1000 (if I'd gotten all rebates/etc) from Compusa, so the price was VERY good. The machine itself looks nice, quite a bit slimmer than a Centrino Dell Inspiron 6000 that my wife owns. It has a clean "aluminum" colored look on the top, with the keyboard and track-pad area being black. One downside (which was something that led me to look for more expensive options) was that there is considerable flex on the palmrest area. I'm not saying that it's going to cave in or anything, I personally found it a bit tacky that the palmrest was somewhat hollow. The laptop I was replacing was an ancient Sony super-slim model, which was downright sexy in it's day (though a P2 doesn't really cut it for XP), so I found the flex to be a bit uncool. However, that said, it's a **** fine machine for the price you pay. I ended up replacing XP Home with WinXP Pro, and can say that the 4202 is plenty fast for most things that you'd want to throw at it. Unless you're a gamer in which case you'd want something with a dedicated card in it. I was looking for something that would work for web surfing, some audio work and general coding (hence my online name). For a $1000 machine it's a great bargain, and I'd recommend it to anyone out there. The flex is something of a concern, but if you get an extended warranty, you should have no worries. Also, a big bonus is that the machine doesn't get very hot. Since it lacks a decicated graphics card and has decent ventilation, it stayed pretty cool (the palmrests were ALWAYS cool to the touch as compared w/ the 8204 and the 5672). In addition, the fan noise was minimal -- even less than the inspiron 6000 (which is pretty good IMO). For a non-gaming machine, the 4202 is certainly worth looking at -- the addition of firewire and bluetooth would have made it even better.

I got a little over 3 hrs battery life out of it, and even after the 3 hrs the laptop wasn't all that hot. In addition, it's probably less than 6.6lbs, i'm guessing closer to 6.3 or so. Hope this helps someone out there, and if you have any questions just ask

 

Well I for one am going to check this out at Comp USA this weekend.
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