Acer Aspire 4530, Is it the right one?

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Hi Guys,

I have been thinking of buying a laptop for quite some time now. But due to limited budget of Rs. 35K, I was not getting good choices. Recently I read about Acer Aspire 4530 which should probably fit the bill.

The intended use will be surfing the net, watching movies, programming, word processing, etc.

If anyone of you have used this one before, kindly give your suggestions about suitability of this lappy.

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I am in a similar situation with a 30k-ish budget and am looking at the 4530 too… the lappy seems to be decent … looking forward to having some user feedback too…

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I bought that laptop about a week back.

There are a few issues. But I suppose that’s to be expected from a product that’s new to the market. I suppose they’ll get smoothed out with bios / driver updates.

Overall seems to be remarkable vfm and good looking to boot.

Let me know if there’s anything specifically you need to know.

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Specs and price wise it seems a worthy successor to the 4520. + the 9100m chipset is supposed to eb pretty good as far as mobile integrated chipsets are concerned.

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Acer Aspire 4530 (update : 8 Aug 08) Expertester

looks good

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Thanks guys for the reply. I had read the review by Experter. In fact that set me looking for more details, as sometimes laptop configuration differs from country to country.

@lide,
Could you answer the following with your hands-on-experience with this lappy:

  • How is the battery life for normal usage?
  • What OS does it come installed with? If it is Vista, how easy it would be to replace it with WinXP or Linux (Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, Mandriva)

Thanks in advance for the help.

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i m now getting 4530 pretty soon..not sure right now or diwali..as offers r ard that time