Acer Aspire 5920 15.4-inch Laptop, Intel Core 2 Duo T5550, Vista Home Premium, 2GB RAM, 250GB HDD

Manufacturer’s Description
The new Acer Aspire 5920 is the first model to launch with Acer’s new, groundbreaking, Gemstone design. Tailored to meet the needs of the advanced home entertainment user it comes packed with all the latest features on the market today and is powered by the Core 2 Duo processor. It is the perfect multimedia-mate sporting a 15.4” wide Acer CrystalBrite display managed by the Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 graphics card. The new Aspire 5920 comes with Dolby Home Theatre Virtual Surround sound which offers a superior audio experience it will provide an unsurpassable entertainment experience.

The is the best budget value laptop I have seen in a while. Acer, who are becoming more reliable, and popular and selling this machine ridiculously cheap. With a good sized screen, the machine copes well with a good processor, intel core 2 duo, and with more than enough RAM to run windows vista premium edition. This however can be upgraded if needed in future, with a new RAM memory for about £20 per GB. The hard disk has 250GB memory, but after windows being loaded on etc, it comes to about 238GB. Still more than enough though. However, like myself who almost got caught out, making a back up disk is essential. I recommend that this is the first thing you should do out of the box as it does not come with one.