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Acer Aspire 7720

Reviews	Views	Date of last review
1	46633	02-15-2010

Recommended By	Average Price	Average Rating
100% of reviewers	None indicated	8.0

Description:	CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo T5550 (1.83GHz, 2MB cache) Memory: 2GB RAM DDR2 667 Disk drives: 250GB hard drive, DVD-RW drive Video: 17" (1440x900) screen Intel X3100 video Communication: 802.11b/g WLAN, 10/100/1000 LAN, webcam
Keywords:	laptop Acer core2 17"
/sbin/lspci output:	00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 03) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) 00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03) 00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03) 00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03) 00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03) 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f3) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 03) 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 03) 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03) 05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5787M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02) 06:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection (rev 02) 07:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 05) 07:00.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22) 07:00.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 12) 07:00.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 12)

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02-15-2010, 02:23 PM

Renan_S2

Registered: Jul 2007

Distribution: Arch Linux

Posts: 66

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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 8

Kernel (uname -r):	2.6.32
Distribution:	Arch Linux

The laptop came with Linpus Linux, which was broken from the beginning. I wiped it clean and installed Arch Linux from a CD (the machine is very picky when it comes to booting via USB).

It has an ACPI problem, if you're going to use 64-bits, you have to update the BIOS to fix overheating (the fan never kicks in except when it's too late) and wireless (keeps going down) problems.

Otherwise, everything works with a stock kernel (just need to install firmware for the WLAN). The only problems I had were with the card reader (doesn't accept Memory Stick, only SD cards) and hibernation (VERY unreliable, often it fails to return).

All in all, it's a decent choice of Linux laptop (as is pretty much anything Acer, I see).

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