Sunday, January 16, 2011

ACER AX3950 i65MR41T

boxes

Didn’t want the hassle of assembling my own PC this year so I went out and bought a “branded” one.

The price of PCs have really gone down, I remember the 1st PC we bought cost around $3000 (Compaq higher-end), the 2nd about $2300 (Acer mid-range), the 3rd about $1800 (self assembled mid-range, exclude monitor)

This Acer cost $1399 (mid-range)

The number of branded PCs also seem to be cut down to just 2 big players: Acer & HP, these were the 2 brands I saw in most of the shops I visited.ACER

Comes with wireless mouse/keyboard, 23” LED monitor, 1TB HDD, 4GB memory, Nvida geforce GT420, Windows 7 home..

AX3950-unbox

AX3950frontAX3950back

AX3950side

Compact CPU

ACER-LED

Slim LED

Setting Up the OS…

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setup

Not sure about the other brands, but Acer does not include system restore discs anymore, I had to burnt the system restore & bundled software onto my own empty DVDRs during startup.

 

Size comparison with my old system:CPUsCPUs2

The 23” LED monitor is great for viewing my long excel spreadsheets, dont have to freeze panels anymore!

monitors

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