Acer Aspire L3600 on QVC today £399

[wbmkk]

Todays Special Value on QVC (Sunday 11 January) is an Acer Aspire L3600 19” screen computer

Web site details as follows :-

A complete multimedia unit in one compact package with this slim and stylish Acer Aspire desktop PC. The computer features a built-in TV card allowing you to enjoy analogue and digital TV broadcasts through the computer on the 19" widescreen TFT monitor and 2.1 speaker system. The powerful PC boasts a 2.2GHz Intel Core Duo processor, 1GB RAM, 250 GB hard drive, and an 8x DVD double-layer drive. Comes with Windows Vista Home Premium and Ability Office Suite. Direct despatch: please allow 10 - 14 working days for delivery. UK only.

£399

Is this a good deal ?

More important, is it a good computer ?
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[greysts]

I guess it's this one. The biggest drawback I can see is the fact that it's an Ultra SFF (Small Form Factor) PC. That means you've probably got no no spare expansion slots for anything else you want to install and it's only got two RAM slots so the most you can have is 2gb of memory. It also doesn't have a separate graphics card and the integrated graphics chip takes 256mb from the main memory so in effect you've only got 768mb of ram left to run Vista, which is not enough.

If all you want to do is watch the tele on it then it's probably OK but if you want to do any serious gaming or graphics work then it ain't good enough.

[kingfisher171]

This maybe unhelpfull I know,but when I was considering buying an Acer Aspire 9420 I was told, it's no good for gaming or graphics, so what, I don't do either. But, two members of my family are constantly telling me how much they envy me for having this model.