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[nlj]

I've narrowed down my search for a new machine to an Acer Aspire V5-171 Core i5 machine.

Both the V5-171-6679 and the V5-171-53318G50ass models are available to me, and I'd like to know what the difference between them is. They seem to have exactly the same specs, and indeed, the same SKU (NX.M3AAA.009).

In particular, I've read that some of the V5-171 models have Broadcomm WiFi/Bluetooth hardware and some have Atheros hardware, and I wanted to know which WiFi/Bluetooth hardware the two models in questions have. (I will be trying to put FreeBSD on this machine (and failing that, Linux), so the answer to this question might help me decide which of the two models to buy.)

Thank you for any light anyone can shed on this puzzle.

[ThV5k]

Hello

You may try contacting the Acer store site where there is a phone number on the bottom of the page site to see if there might be more detailed specifications available that could be provided. Regarding installing 3rd party or different OS Acer will not be able to assist you with that since we support our products "as manufactured".

http://store.acer.com/store/acerna/en_CA/home

http://www.acer.com/worldwide/

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