The Acer Aspire 5720
Powerful enough for the casual surfer. It has a Pentium Core Duo with 2GB RAM and a large 160GB hard drive. Bright LCD with Super DVD Burner. Firewire, lots of USBs, S-Video Out and all the nice bells and whistles. My only complaint is the Atheros Wi-fi which was mother of pain in the 4ss to troubleshoot! If you're using Vista, don't forget to install SP1.
I tried Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) and OpenSuse 11 and everythnig worked fine. Ubuntu was snappier but Suse has more "mature" software.
Don't even try to downgrade to WindowsXP. The drivers available are old and outdated.
Ideal machine to make your wife happy for 2 years!
4.4 stars out of 5
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