Hello: I plan to buy an Acer Aspire 1362. Could anybody tell me about "Acer Aspire 1362" product rating and linux compatibilty? Do anybody already own this? How is the performace? Please give suggestions/advice in this regard.
Thanks in advance
Binulal Narayanan
On Tuesday 01 Mar 2005 9:31 pm, Binulal Narayanan wrote:
Hello: I plan to buy an Acer Aspire 1362. Could anybody tell me about "Acer Aspire 1362" product rating and linux compatibilty? Do anybody already own this? How is the performace? Please give suggestions/advice in this regard.
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Hi
I went to my friend's shop and checked out the PC. Its performance is really good. However, it is a little heavier than the previous model I purchased (Acer TravelMate 290E).
It is really fast, very good graphics.
The final price I think should be around 33K. (Get Vashi billing, with mumbai address, carry on own - so no octrio paid, tell them you dont need them to install anything and so wont pay installation charges and dont need their carry bag - there are equally good cheaper bags available in shops)
The only problem is that the wifi chip they use does not have an linux driver at present. The chip is (I understand from friends) capable of transmitting in any frequency (including milerary reserved frequency) and the US govt has asked the company not to release the chip specifications to opensource till they can get a workround for the problem. The website says that the driver should be available in 2 months time.
Acer is not a popular brand, but I find their performance very good, and the price - performance ratio is really attractive. We plan to acquire 2 of them for our office and would like to add up orders from anyone else wanting it to get volume price advantages.
Regards Saswata
Binulal Narayanan wrote:
Hello: I plan to buy an Acer Aspire 1362. Could anybody tell me about "Acer Aspire 1362" product rating and linux compatibilty? Do anybody already own this? How is the performace? Please give suggestions/advice in this regard.
Thanks in advance
Binulal Narayanan
The only problem is that the wifi chip they use does not have an linux driver at present. The chip is (I understand from friends) capable of transmitting in any frequency (including milerary reserved frequency) and the US govt has asked the company not to release the chip specifications to opensource till they can get a workround for the problem. The website says that the driver should be available in 2 months time.
Does it really have wifi card inbuilt. Coz there site doesn't say so.
http://www.acer.co.in/products/notebooks/aspire1362.html
Vihang Dudhalkar wrote:
The only problem is that the wifi chip they use does not have an linux driver at present. The chip is (I understand from friends) capable of transmitting in any frequency (including milerary reserved frequency) and the US govt has asked the company not to release the chip specifications to opensource till they can get a workround for the problem. The website says that the driver should be available in 2 months time.
Does it really have wifi card inbuilt. Coz there site doesn't say so.
These laptops have "Manufacturing Option" for this line of laptops. That means in some markets, they put it in, and in some, they dont. The brochures for the laptop here in Mumbai clearly states that the product has a built in wifi 11b/g.
This is important, since ibm, hp still provide 11b in (1/5th of the speed) centrino notebooks which are twice as expensive.
You can cross check this by calling acer india mumbai office.
Regards Saswata
On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 23:50 +0530, Saswata Banerjee & Associates wrote:
The only problem is that the wifi chip they use does not have an linux driver at present. The chip is (I understand from friends) capable of transmitting in any frequency (including milerary reserved frequency) and the US govt has asked the company not to release the chip specifications to opensource till they can get a workround for the problem. The website says that the driver should be available in 2 months time.
Make/Model Chip number for wireless card, I will try to fix it. Copy the output of lspci for me.
If possible mark a copy to my personal address as well. I might get busy and not read the mailing lists for few days.
Amish.
Saswata Banerjee & Associates wrote:
We plan to acquire 2 of them for our office and would like to add up orders from anyone else wanting it to get volume price advantages.
Out of curiosity, how much is the volume pricing advantage? ;)
Clinton Goveas www.clintongoveas.com
2 K or so from the price we would otherwise pay, ofcourse with some innovative (but perfectly legal) billing even 4K. Possibly someone with regular corporate purchase will get even lower pricing that what I can negotiate. Then I will latch on to his order than mine :-)
I was hopeing someone like you will come up with a counter price. I just want lower prices.
Incidentally, specifically for Aspire 1362, Acer has a special disocount of Rs. 2500 for any student. They do a background check both of actual address and with the college before delivering the laptop. I was planning to purchase one of the laptops in my partner's sister's name to get that discount.
Regards Saswata
Clinton Goveas wrote:
Saswata Banerjee & Associates wrote:
We plan to acquire 2 of them for our office and would like to add up orders from anyone else wanting it to get volume price advantages.
Out of curiosity, how much is the volume pricing advantage? ;)
Clinton Goveas www.clintongoveas.com
Binulal Narayanan wrote:
Hello: I plan to buy an Acer Aspire 1362. Could anybody tell me about "Acer Aspire 1362" product rating and linux compatibilty? Do anybody already own this? How is the performace? Please give suggestions/advice in this regard.
Thanks in advance
Binulal Narayanan
Hello: Just wanted to give a heads up with this old post of mine. Thanks to all ( especially to Saswata, for the guidance - "Waiting a little before buying a Laptop never hurts" ) After a month's wait, I just bought an Acer Aspire 3002 , which has the same configuration as the discontinued Acer Aspire 1362. Config is "AMD Sempron 2800+, 256MB DDR333, 15" XGA TFT, 40GB HDD, DVD/CD-RW Combo." To draw a small comparison - 1) the 1362 was 3.6 Kg, the 3002 is 2.8 kg. The Acer guy (I hate to mention the name) told me that the 1362 had a bad design (problem?), and hence the weight . I'd like to mention that around forty 1362's were sold off last month. Hope they won't say my 3002 have the same prob when they introduce the next in the line ! 2) 3002 has sleeker case/look 3) As far as I know 3002 uses a VIA K8N800 mobo, 1362 had VIA K8M800 The distro that comes with the 3002 is "Linpus Linux - www.linupus.com " from Taiwan - running linux-2.6.7. X hasn't come up yet. Still working on it :) And now the best part of it- the price. All the Acer Retailers ask for 35000 to 36500; And this is the same price at which they sold most of the 1362's. But I got it for 33800 from Fdisk India P.L. -reseller - ( 30000 for laptop + 2500 for carrying charges, freight and carry bag + 1300 as 4% VAT.) They didn't charge any octroi. Good people. I think it was a fair deal for both of us. That's all for now
Thank you Binulal Narayanan
From: Binulal Narayanan kutoos@spymac.com
1) the 1362 was 3.6 Kg, the 3002 is 2.8 kg. The Acer guy
Thank you Binulal Narayanan
Wow, thats like snap-your-hand-right-off heavy! :O But the price is great!
Regards, Dinesh.
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Binulal Narayanan wrote:
The Acer guy (I hate to mention the name) told me that the 1362 had a bad design (problem?), and hence the weight .
The sales guy at Acer Point (Lokhandwala) denied this. :P
And now the best part of it- the price. All the Acer Retailers ask for 35000 to 36500; And this is the same price at which they sold most of the 1362's. But I got it for 33800 from Fdisk India P.L. -reseller
- ( 30000 for laptop + 2500 for carrying charges, freight and carry
bag + 1300 as 4% VAT.) They didn't charge any octroi. Good people. I think it was a fair deal for both of us.
Made an enquiry, and found they are still offering it at this price. There will be a wait period. I spoke to Renuka. Ph: (022)56661525
Acer Point (Lokhandwala) has ready pieces, and offered me a "comparable" discount with home delivery. Credit cards would be charged 2% extra. Can't say the amount as I promised the sales guy I wouldn't spread the word. ;) I spoke to Vikram. Ph: (022)26344196
Hello:
Clinton Goveas wrote:
Binulal Narayanan wrote:
The Acer guy (I hate to mention the name) told me that the 1362 had a bad design (problem?), and hence the weight .
The sales guy at Acer Point (Lokhandwala) denied this. :P
Hmmm. Call Acer. Not any dealers - they hardly know anything abt the system other than how to sell it :) ( And I don't think Acer is gonna talk abt anymore ;)
And now the best part of it- the price. All the Acer Retailers ask for 35000 to 36500; And this is the same price at which they sold most of the 1362's. But I got it for 33800 from Fdisk India P.L. -reseller - ( 30000 for laptop + 2500 for carrying charges, freight and carry bag + 1300 as 4% VAT.) They didn't charge any octroi. Good people. I think it was a fair deal for both of us.
Made an enquiry, and found they are still offering it at this price. There will be a wait period. I spoke to Renuka. Ph: (022)56661525
Acer Point (Lokhandwala) has ready pieces, and offered me a "comparable" discount with home delivery. Credit cards would be charged 2% extra. Can't say the amount as I promised the sales guy I wouldn't spread the word. ;) I spoke to Vikram. Ph: (022)26344196
Well well Acer Point, Lokhandwala called me just two days ago quoting the same with the same price of 36.5K
I'll struggling to get Linux installed. Suse 9.2 has got APCI problems, but is really cool otherwise. Fedora is cool, but doesn't have 1024x768 Rez. Now planning to try RH9. Sis site has got the drivers for linux-2.4 only . Time to open another post ;)
From: Binulal Narayanan kutoos@spymac.com
I'll struggling to get Linux installed. Suse 9.2 has got APCI problems, but is really cool otherwise. Fedora is cool, but doesn't have 1024x768 Rez. Now planning to try RH9. Sis site has got the drivers for linux-2.4 only . Time to open another post ;)
I would've recommended a dell. FC2 works out of the box for my friend. He needed to do a little fine tuning but he didnt have to compile new drivers and stuff(except for the intel 2200PRO b/g wifi card).
Regards,
Dinesh.
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