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(More customer reviews)After doing research on the Internet and reading the previous reviews, I decided to still take a chance and bought this computer anyway because my main home/office computer has an Acer motherboard and I've had trouble free use from it for over three years now.
This unit did not let me down and delivered on every level. It was purchased as an upgrade for my six-year old computer at my vacation residence, and while that computer was still working faithfully, it was slow running certain programs. This new Acer unit makes up for that in spades! By using PC Mover, I was able to transfer everything from the old computer to this one in a few hours, and outside of a few programs (specifically Microsoft products, Nero, and a couple of others), everything moved flawlessly. I took a couple of the peripherals out of the old computer - video card, sound card and an additional DVD/CD Writer and installed them into this new system in less than an hour. Windows 7 found them instantly and updated all the necessary drivers to get them to work. It's now 24 hours since I finished the upgrade/transfer and I'm using the computer right now to write this review.
The drawbacks? OK, there are three. One is that if you are not computer literate and you are upgrading your previous system to this one, you should have a computer specialist do it for you. PC Mover is a great program but it's not perfect and leaves behind some software like antivirus programs and others that need to be reinstalled, and usually all the drivers for devices like printers, general USB devices, and internally added peripherals like sound and video cards. Because I'm familiar with how to handle these specific situations, this was not a major issue for me, except for the time involved. It did take me the better part of a full day to have PC Mover transfer everything, check and reinstall the software and peripherals, and then set up the system the way I wanted it to be. The second drawback - and this is VERY minor - is because this was a midrange computer, there were only two available PCI slots. One had the wireless PC adaptor, but because I have a LAN cable connection to my router, I was able to remove the wireless card and use that slot for one of the peripherals I moved from the previous computer. There are also two PCI Express slots available - a 1x and 16x - for enhanced graphics or anything else that requires PCI-E, which is excellent. The final drawback is that there is hardly any documentation that accompanies this system. The paperwork enclosed in the box is the basic stuff to get you going, but that's it. There is some documentation stored in a pdf file in the Acer directory on the hard drive, but it is very generic and not that helpful in terms of determining what exactly is inside the case or adding peripherals later on. It seems the Acer web site is sorely lacking in descriptive technical text as well. Again, if you're not computer literate, this will cause you some grief if you don't have a specialist help you, but if you're familiar enough with computer software and basic device installation, you won't need it anyway.
The list price at most other web sites is $599.99 and that doesn't include shipping or sales tax. At the time of this review, Amazon has this for $502.19 including shipping, and THAT IS A DEAL. If you're simply buying a new computer and are going to start from scratch, you cannot beat this system for the price. Just get yourself a monitor and some speakers and you're ready to go!
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Sporting a fresh design and featuring a cool illuminated blue power effect that runs alongside the edge of the machine, the Acer Aspire M3900 (model AM3900-U3042) features a dual-core Intel Pentium E6700 processor--providing the multitasking power you need for everyday computing so you can push play and creativity further. And 6 GB of DDR3 RAM delivers incredible system response to effortlessly play intense games and run the latest multithreaded applications.
The Acer Aspire M3900 desktop PC.
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