Price less than $400 generally mean netbook, rather than laptop. This laptop comes with a AMD Athlon processor and only one GB of Random Access Memory with 14.1 inch display, the Acer eMD620-5777 is worth a look.
The new Acer eMD620 laptop is very basic in design, including the black matte cover, ribbed plastic above the laptop’s keyboard, and the touchpad is surrounded with a thin silver frame. Measuring 13.0x 9.8×1.2–1.6 inches and 5.3 pounds.
The 14.1-inch shiny display with 1280×800 pixel resolution; is quite bright and produces sharp images quality. A 0.3 megapixel webcam is present just above the display screen. The speakers are located on the front edge, produce good sound. The new Acer eMD620 has just 2 USB, VGA, Ethernet slot, and headphone and mic jacks. The eMD620 is powered by single-core AMD’s Athlon 2650e processor running at 1.6 GHz, one GB of memory. Increasing the Random Access Memory to Two GB is easy. The laptop comes with ATI Radeon X1200 graphics card and the 5,400- Rotation Par Minute hard disk drive 160GB.
The 802.11b/g Wi-Fi laptop turned in good throughput of 20.4 Mbps (at 14-15 feet) and 18.9 Mbps (49 feet).
Software and Warranty
The Acer eMD260 comes with Windows Vista Home Basic, including Google Desktop, eMachines GameZone, and trial versions of Microsoft Office Home and a 2 month trial of Norton 360 Version2.0. The Acer eMD260 laptop comes with a standard 1year warranty.