Re: [clug-talk] laptop recommendations

[Mitchell Brown]

DO NOT GO THE ACER ROUTE.
You will have nothing but headaches. Out of the box, my Acer 'top is configured as such

• 80gb drive
• Cut into three parts
• 19(ish)GB for the C:
• 19(ish)GB for the D:
• 2(ish)GB for the hidden "Recovery partition"

Unless you are willing to completely destroy the hard drive layout, then don't buy it. If you so much as change one byte of the partition table, the recovery partition is garbage, and will no longer restore Windows XP to the C:\. Granted, this is not a problem if you are willing to forgoe with XP altogether - but just know, you will never get it back and will be out $200 odd dollars for the copy of it.

Just a word of warning from a fellow Acer'er.

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