I’ve had the Acer Ferrari 4005 WMLi for about 3 days now and I don’t like it! Read on more on why I think this may not be the best laptops in the market
Well, first and foremost this is a beautiful machine. Sturdy, well built and impressive. But it has it’s cons.
- It’s noisy fan! – Now, I have had many different laptops of varying variety (Dell’s, IBM Thinkpads, Mac’s/Powerbooks, Toshiba’s) and everyone has some fans that make noise. But of all the laptops, this suckers makes the most irritating whirring noise I can’t imagine to tell how you irritating it can get when the fan runs 24/7! I can place this laptop alongside a Dell D600 which runs quiet as a whisper.
- The broken ACPI – Almost every non-windows OS I have tried on this (So far: RR64Linux, SuSE 10.0 64-bit, Ubuntu Breezy 5.10, Fedora Core 4 64-bit, Solaris 10 01/06) do not work well on this machine. The ACPI implementation is very broken and needs a lot of work to fix.
- Broadcom Wireless Drivers - NDiswrapper sucks! The only distro it has worked has been SuSE 10.0. All others, I just cannot associated with AP (Plain ‘ol 128 Bit WEP). The best working has been sadly with Windows XP. Interestingly, I find that I always come back and use Windows. The interface is clean, simple and almost everything….including suspend/resume works.
- Suspend-Resume on non-Microsoft OS’s. - No other OS has worked with suspend/resume.
With the availability of the new intel based mac’s which are the same ball park range of this machine, this Acer Ferrari costing around $2800 CAD (inc. taxes)..looks a bit too expensive. I am seriously considering returning this and waiting till the next version of intel mac’s or dual-core laptops start showing up.
