I am thinking of buying laptop Acer Aspire at $600. Is this model worth it for long-term professiona

Any sharing of experiences or references to effectiveness, reliability, and other performance standards of Acer laptops, generally, would be equally appreciated. I am poised to choose between Compad and Acer, the latter seemingly offering a better mix of price and expected performance.

Model Major Specs and Details for the Acer Aspire:

Acer Aspire 5050-3242 14.1" WXGA LCD Laptop w/ 2.0 GHz AMD Turion 64 Mobile Technology MK-36. Operating System: Windows Vista Premium Ready, Genuine Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005; RAM 1028 MB, upgradable to 4GB; Hardspace 100 GB.

Software: Acer Empowering Technology (Acer ePower, ePresentation, eDataSecurity, eLock, eRecovery7, eSettings, ePerformance Management), Acer GridVista 1, Acer Arcade 4, Acer Launch Manager, Norton AntiVirus, Adobe Reader, CyberLink, PowerDVD, CyberLink PowerProducer

I am thinking of buying laptop Acer Aspire at $600. Is this model worth it for long-term professional use?spyware

Short term, this would be fine.

But for long-term, I would recommend a duo processer. It can be a AMD turionX2, Athlon X2, Centrino Duo or the new Intel Core 2 Duo. This would last you for much longer.

Otherwise, you are one the right track. 1024 mb is the lowest I would recommend. For me 100gb harddrive is low, but you can always get an external hard drive.

Just to run the Vista, it requires 512 mb, but I recommend 1024 because it will eat up everything. Also, for Vista, you need to set aside a whopping 40gb of harddrive space.