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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Dead and Hot, February 19, 2007
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J. J. Jansen (Oklahoma City, OK United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Acer Ferrari 5005WLMI 15.4" Notebook PC (AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-60, 2 GB RAM, 160 GB Hard Drive, DVD+/-RW/CD-RW Drive) (Electronics)
First of all I received my Acer Ferrari 5000 DOA (Dead on Arrival). Very disappointing! I sent the unit to Acer for repair and their turn around was good and they said they had to replace the motherboard. It took more time for me to receive my laptop from FedEx that the time it took Acer to fix the laptop.

My first complaint about the laptop is that it is hot and I mean very hot. The exhaust from the cpu fan is on the right side of the laptop and when using the mouse (which I use 99% of the time) then my mouse and my hand gets very hot. So I run the cpu at a lower speed to reduce the heat.

My second complaint is that Acer says the laptop is "Windows Vista Premium Ready" but the hard drive is formatted as FAT32 which means you have to first convert the hard drive from FAT32 to NTFS before you can install Windows Vista.

My third complaint is that Acer America still does not have the drivers nor their applications available for Windows Vista. Either 32 bit nor 64 bit apps/drivers. I was able to finally find some drivers from Acer-Euro. However, my blue-tooth mouse that came with the Acer Ferrari 5000 still does not work under Vista. Also my VOIP phone that came with the Ferrari 5000 also is not working with Vista.

The laptop is working good with Windows XP Professional that came with the computer. Speed is not great but is ok. The top cover is pretty but does show finger prints easily. Acer even provided a cleaning rag to clean off the finger prints!

Bottom line is would I buy the Acer Ferrari 5000 again? Probably not!
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1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding computer, March 9, 2007
This review is from: Acer Ferrari 5005WLMI 15.4" Notebook PC (AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-60, 2 GB RAM, 160 GB Hard Drive, DVD+/-RW/CD-RW Drive) (Electronics)
I'm a congenital heart surgeon.
This computer is a precision instrument.
It will improve your computing performance.
I've encountered a single problem - fairly frequent failure of the wireless mouse, requires a reboot to restore, otherwise would have been five stars.
I'm very satisfied with my purchase.
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