Elisha Terada

Today I’m comparing new laptops released with Windows 7 pre-installed from Acer today, Oct 22nd. The comparison I’m making here is not on the performance alone, but on the balance of cost effectiveness on both portability and performance. Therefore, all the laptops I picked from Acer runs more than 6 hours at reasonable price, but not necessary a fast computer. Although Acer is also releasing new 15.4″ lines, I did not find them reasonably portable (most runs less than 3 hours).

I believe screen size is most crucial factor, so I picked most attractive model(s) for each screen size. So if you already know exactly which size you want, there you have the best recommendation listed below:

Portability + Price or Performance

I picked two 11.6″ screen laptops here because the first one offers attractive price while the second offers the great performance which even beats the bigger models. If you can afford extra $200, I would definately pick AS1810T-8679 for enhanced performance + battery life that’s worth paying $200 for.

Large screen size

Note that optical drive only comes for 14″ screen laptop which might be crucial to you. But I find it much cheaper to just buy external DVD drive for the laptop if that’s the only concern you have. With a weight of 4.4lb and a so-so performance, the only benefit I see in this model is the size of screen which is larger than other options.

Portability + Reasonable screen size

If you find 11.6″ too small (which you should check in local electronics store like Best Buy), but still loves portability, your choice is simply 13.3″ which is priced reasonable.

Before you buy

In my observation, price of expensive laptops goes down faster than cheaper laptops. I wrote the draft of this post yesterday and I just noticed the 14″ laptop is $50 cheaper today. This doesn’t usually happen in the laptops that are already cheap to begin with, so it is wise to wait couple weeks or months before you buy new expensive models.

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