Acer TravelMate 4062WLCi
Product: Acer TravelMate 4062WLCi
Type: Notebook
Configuration:
* Intel® Centrino® Mobile Technology
* Intel® Pentium® M Processor 740 (2MB L2 cache, 1.73GHz, 533MHz FSB)
* 512MB (256/256) DDR2 533 SDRAM
* 80GB hard drive
* 15.4″ WXGA (1280 x 800) TFT display
* Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 900
* DVD-ROM/CD-RW drive
* 10/100 Ethernet
* 802.11b/g wireless LAN
* Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional
* Dimensions: 364.0 (W) x 279.0 (D) x 33.9 – 38.9 (H) mm
* Weight: 2.9 kg
- As much as we all love top-of-the-line, thin-and-light notebooks, the bread and butter of Acer’s notebooks are general purpose mid-level laptops. So, forgive me for introducing a review of the Acer TravelMate 4062WLCi by PCMag.
Now, it is not that the notebook is bad. After all, PCMag gives it an overall rating of 3 1/2 out of 5 stars. It’s just that I find that not many people like to read reviews on notebooks that come with the Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900 - an inferior substitute of dedicated Nvidia or ATI video cards. But then, the TravelMate 4062WLCi is a budget notebook for the price-conscious.
In any case, PCMag summarises the TravelMate 4062WLCi as:
…a value notebook designed for budget-minded users who cherish a widescreen for watching DVDs or working on documents with minimal scrolling. The expansive 15.4-inch display is a bit bigger than the screens on some other highly portable mainstream notebooks, and it is great for watching DVDs. Though the 4062WLCi is not a multimedia laptop like the Dell Inspiron 6000, the big screen and above-average processor help make this notebook a good deal for $900.
Note: Besides its 15.4″ widescreen LCD and one or two other things, the Acer TravelMate 4062WLCi is very similar to the TravelMate 4652LMi (which comes with a 15″ screen and a modular DVD-Dual drive).
- I featured a full-fledged Acer TravelMate 4062WLCi review by PCMag in the post before this one, so I thought it would be appropriate to feature a semi-review in this post because the fundamentals would already have been covered.
Anyway, in this SMB IT review, the TravelMate 4062WLCi’s pluses were deemed to be the low price and low weight, but SMB IT seemed to have had problems with the relatively low battery life (if compared to a Lenovo/IBM ThinkPad) and networking. In the end, they concluded that the TM4062WLCi would be great value for money (that is, if you could handle the networking problems they experienced) and “…SoHo road warriors with limited budgets should definitely check this out before buying anything else.”
Personally, I’ve not had many problems with the connectivity of Acer’s notebooks, and therefore, networking has never been a problem for me. If I could venture a guess, I’d say that SMB IT’s networking problems stemmed from the fact that the test unit was a “…slightly early production unit.”
- About a week back, we had the first Acer TravelMate 4062WLCi review by PCMag. This was followed by a semi-review by SMB IT two days later. Now, we have the second full-fledged review of the TravelMate 4062WLCi notebook by CNET.
Since there is little point repeating what I’ve already said in the previous reviews, I will go straight to CNET’s verdict. CNET awards the TM4062WLCi an overall rating of 5.9 out of 10, concluding that “The midsize Acer TravelMate 4060 tells a generally compelling story with its price, performance, design, and features, but when it comes to battery life, its tale turns to one of woe.”
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PCMag had the first review of the Acer Travelmate 4062WLCi, so it isn’t really surprising to see it featuring the Travelmate 4062WLCi as one of the its top choices for sub-$1000 notebooks.
Little was actually said about the 4062WLCi, but unlike a couple of the other notebooks featured, it was all positive comments for the Acer. The 4062WLCI was said to be, “…a budget notebook with plenty of viewing space and nice amount of storage capacity. ”
The other sub-$1000 notebooks featured were the Dell Inspiron 6000, Lenovo 3000 C100, and HP Compaq V2000Z.
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