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Review: Acer Aspire 3680

April 1, 2008

Processor: Intel Celeron M 440 @ 1.86 gigahertz

RAM: 512 gigs

Hard Drive: 80 Gig

OS:  Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic

This Little Laptop is Well worth the Money I paid for it.  I have been using it for about six months and have had no problems with it.    It is not Heavy and moves around the house with ease.  It worked very well the one time I took it to the ocean for the weekend.  The on-board wireless allows me to easily connect to the Internet from where ever I happen to be.  The wide-screen monitor is crystal clear.  It comes with 3 usb ports, 1 pcmcia port, 1 svideo port, VGA out, Ethernet and a modem.  The on-board Multi-card reader works well reading SD cards.    I have used the on-board DVD reader/CD burner to watch movies and burn cds with no problems at all. 

The included software is almost non-existant.  It of course came with the operatings system but lacked any sort of office suite.  I fixed that by installing Open Office.  It did come with a rather nice piece of back up software that I have only used once to make the laptops restore CDs. It would have been nice if they had included those in the box.  It also came with Norton internet security which I uninstalled as soon as it expired. 

I have considered installing Some version of Linux on it but why tamper with something that works and works fairly well.

I would definatly buy this machine again if I had to.