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CompUSA has the refurbished Acer Aspire AS5515 15.4" Notebook PC for $300 + $2 shipping = $302 shipped. Features an AMD Athlon 2650e, 3GB DDR2, 160GB HDD, 8x DVD+/-RW, Radeon Xpress 1200, 802.11b/g, and Vista Home Basic. [Compare]
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Why there are so many refurbished Acer?
Now the 15.4
before the 8.9
Because yo momma sits on them.
There aren't "So many" #1, depending on where you look you'll find plenty of refurbs from all brands.
Now for this deal, the single core 2650e CPU is just too slow for reasonable Vista, even if it's Home Basic, use. Feels like a 700MHz Celeron running XP except a little more laggy. If you put XP on it then it'd be suitable for light web surfing, email and office. Then again it's pretty big and heavy just to do that unless you really need the screen size.
#2 You know what they say: Stupid is, stupid does.
take a chance on this
If you wish to know why there are so many Acer refurbished machines on the market, just go to your local store and find the cheapest notebook. It'll more than likely be an acer. The people buying whatever is the cheapest tend to also be the least computer savvy, and tend to send back 'malfunctioning' devices that are perfectly good. Acer having a high rate of return really wouldn't surprise me. They have cheaper PCs than everyone else, and that price cut has to come from somewhere, and it's likely quality. Walmart is also selling Acer notebooks, and we all know the type of shoppers Walmart has. With all that said, I'd still buy an Acer over a Dell... but ehh, I've just had a slew of bad experiences with dell, and nothing bad with Acer yet. It could just be luck of the draw so far.
Purchased one of these on compusa.com last week; converted to XP and with 3GB RAM it runs well - remember it has NO PCMCIA or Express slot. The website is out of stock, but the local Compusa had a stack of them and I paid $299 plus tax for another last night. It is already running XP.