Comments on: Acer Aspire 5050 Review

By: Arindam

Arindam — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:26:46 +0000

Got an Acer 3104NWLMi, Mobile AMD Sempron - and it too has a Bluetooth Switch that doesn’t light up.

(It has a Wireless Networking switch that does - another story).

I don’t know why they put such a useless switch without providing any notice that there is no Bluetooth adapter inbuilt.

Anyway, Ubuntu runs very well on it.

By: shankar

shankar — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 03:43:33 +0000

I bought asper 5050 laptop
May I know the camera model in it?

By: james

james — Sat, 10 May 2008 15:25:21 +0000

yeah i am having the same problem i dont unerstand why my acer has a bluetooth switch when it doesnt work. also i have the bluetooth wizard and i have tried to sync things but will not work after the system restore. it worked when i first bought the damn thing but nw nothing… can any help me i tried downloading drivers but that didnt seem to work…. thanks…

By: Casey Pilgrim

Casey Pilgrim — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:36:49 +0000

What is the deal with the bluetooth on this model? I tried to sync my SLVR with it and it said no device.

By: sandokan

sandokan — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 06:31:56 +0000

I need softwrae for driver my laptop

By: qqw411

qqw411 — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:19:37 +0000

Thanks Joey… I was planning to get it replaced….

By: Joey

Joey — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 21:51:41 +0000

Yeah, The sound on this laptop is very low. I have the same problem so I just plug in the headphones.

By: AV System

AV System — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 07:33:03 +0000

You get 768MB ram because integrated video uses rest for it’s purposes. You can set how much ram your video uses in bios or using configuration tools.

By: qqw411

qqw411 — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 00:55:39 +0000

Hi,

Guys I recently bought and this laptop. The laptop works perfectly okay.

The only problem I have is regarding the sound. have changed the volem properties almost eveywhere to 100% but the output is far too low.

Did anyone else too has the same problem??

By: Chester

Chester — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 16:22:47 +0000

I paid $399 + tax (but I had a gift card to use so it made it much less) for my Acer 5050-3785 about a month ago. I read somewhere else where you can change the RAM in the BIOS to not “share” as much RAM with the integrated video, so I changed mine to 64MB so now I have 958MB of actual usuable RAM available instead of the 768MB. Mine’s been working great - no blue screen of death (knock on wood) and I uninstalled Norton since I really have never used any type of Internet Security software since that WILL slow your system startup. I just do a clean re-install about twice a year to get rid of the accumulated junk … so start up for me seems fairly quick (of course my previous laptop is an old Compaq Presario 2100 2.0 Celeron - 3 years old … so I dont have much to compare with). I dont play games at all. I mainly surf the web - the usual (see how my SF Giants are doing, look for deals online, etc) … keep up on my Strongbad vids … and download pics and videos from my digital camera & camcorder. All in all - a great lightweight replacement laptop (under $400) for me with vista premium and a decent amount of RAM and a 14.1 widescreen lcd … 15.4 widescreens are for people that want a desktop replacement IMO - I wanted a true “portable” laptop and lastly this may not be a biggie to others since its more common nowadays but I now have actual USB 2.0 ports - I still had the 1.1’s on my Compaq. I dont quite go through laptops as fast as cell phones, but this should last another 2-3 years. Why spend $1200 for a Sony Core 2 Duo with 13.3 Widescreen and have to replace it in 3-4 years? I actually used the extra money I saved and bought a new Treo 755p and a Hitachi DVD/HDD hybrid camcorder. Lastly, the real only annoying thing about the laptop which I’ve gotten used is that there is no volume toggle other than the keyboard strokes and the useless bluetooth button - has anyone gotten it to work? Thanks.