New Machine

[MikeTbob]

Hi everyone,
I just bought a new machine for my wife. It's an Acer Aspire 5534-1096
Products

Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium ; 64-bit version; AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor L310 (1MB L2 cache 1.20GHz); 4GB (2/2) DDR2 667 SDRAM; 250GB hard drive; integrated Super-Multi drive; 5-in-1 card reader; Acer® CineCrystal 15.6" (1366 x 76 TFT display; ATI Radeon™ HD 3200 graphics; 802.11b/g WLAN, gigabit LAN; one-year limited warranty

So far we are loving it and we think we got an awesome deal on it, it was not listed on the sale ads and they couldn't find it listed anywhere in the online catalogue, but we got it for 348.00. The one we were trying to get was an Acer also but it only had 2GB RAM and a 160GB HD, Single CPU and Windows Vista for the same price. BTW this machine was tucked away, way back in the shelves where it couldn't be seen unless the door was unlocked and you moved things around. I'm nosy like that.

[oz]

Looks very nice... will you be running Linux on it?

[MikeTbob]

I'm not allowed to install Linux on it sadly, but she didn't say anything about LiveCD's or USB booting!

[MikeTbob]

On a related note, her old machine becomes our 15 yro sons machine and we are definitely installing Linux on it, he uses my machine all the time and has no problem with it. I just don't know which version to install....all he needs is a web browser w/flash for myspace, a media player for his MP3 player. Windows gets infected every two weeks when he uses it on myspace, even with AVG and Ad-aware

[oz]

Hope your wife will enjoy the new machine, thoroughly!

I've never owned a laptop and have never wanted one but the wife certainly does. The problem is, she is extremely rough and careless with any and all electronic devices within her reach, so I seriously doubt that any laptop would make it through the first week of ownership under her control. She's a great lady, otherwise.

Maybe I'll check the warranty and/or my homeowners insurance policy to see if it would be covered for owner abuse. If not, we'll probably have to wait until the guaranteed unbreakable models arrive on the market.

[Rubberman]

I got my wife a Toshiba Mini NB205 (10" netbook) w/ 1GB RAM, 250GB HD, Win7 Starter for her b'day and xmas. Cost w/ shipping from Amazon was $399. First thing she did was to shrink the NTFS partition and dual-boot with Ubuntu. Likes it a lot. Don't know if she'll ever nuke the Windows installation (which she really hates), especially now she pretty much has Ubuntu working the way she wants. Her other laptop is a Macbook G4 Pro. You'll pry that one out of her cold, dead hands! However, she needed something smaller for travel, hence the netbook.

[MikeTbob]

Well this new machine couldn't have come at a better time. My wifes old desktop machine just died a horrible death, I'm struggling with it and it appears that the BIOS battery is dead or something is wrong with the MOBO.

[thornspear]

My wife just bought me an HP Pavilion dv6-2064ca AMD Turion II dual-core mobile processor M640 (2.6GHz). 500GB SATA 4096MB RAM. I'm loving it. First thing I did was accidently corrupt Windoze 7 when attempting to install Ubuntu, but everything is running fine now dual boot karmic and win 7.