Aspire P3...good or nah

hlybg2000

My laptop recently expired and I'm looking to replace with the Aspire P3 Ultrabook. I really don't care about batt life, screen res, the weight or memory. My laptop was 7 years old and a slow, heavy beast anything new is worlds better. What I want to know is if this device will support what I do. Acer's claim to fame with this device is that it is a laptop in a tablet form. I need a full version of MS Office (for work and school), Silverlight (for work website), streaming media/subscription tv (such as hulu and Netflix). I need to be able to download attachments, pics and files from work/personal/school email clients. Need to be able to send these as well..... And don't forget printing all this stuff. How do you print or can it??

The specs are nice...but I need to know how this device functions. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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zed2

sorry for my bad eng Smiley Tongue

i alredy have Aspire P3 for near half a year ( i use Aspire p3 - 131 , the later number is ths the model that acer release and each model have different thing in them , for P3 most is diffrent is: ( in this is mine because of early release )

cpu:
core i3 or i5 ( core i3 )

ram:

2gig or 4 gig ( 2 gig )

hard:

60 gig or 120 gig ( mine is 60 gig )

the thing i can answer you is this:

in my package ms office wasn't included but microsoft later tell that he will add a ms office in all ultrabook ( you can check it when i plan to buy it if it's there or no )

http://www.futureshop.ca/en-CA/category/free-microsoft-office-with-all-windows-8-ultrabooks/pcofficeincluded.aspx

sadly i didn't use Silverlight but you can install Silverlight yourself or tell the seller to install it for you

http://www.microsoft.com/getsilverlight/Get-Started/Install/Default.aspx

ps : i check it and it tell me i already have silverlight

for me ( because of haveing early ver, weak config ) watching 1 video at a time wasn't problem but for like stream ( like youtube )sometimes it have lag when i want to stop or start it ( normal watching without doing anything wasn't problem and you can watch it without problem )

if you travel a lot and need to have notebook to show somthing to someone or have to carry a lot of file ( manual, note , gudie , etc ) and youy need a system for sometimes shoing in projection it do his job .

if all you do is this:

"I need to be able to download attachments, pics and files from work/personal/school email clients"

i don't think you have any problem

but if you plan to use it for editing pic or do some rendering and etc ( heavy staff ) i recomand you to use at last highest hardware setthing.

about this:

"And don't forget printing all this stuff. How do you print or can it??"

there is normal use port ( not mini - most of ultra book i find at that time have only mini use and force me to carry adaport for convert it to normal usb )

if you printer have usb connection you can connect it to you p3 without problem ( or at most with installing drive )but for Parallel port you need adapor ( i didn't see any ultra book have this port ) also can use printer that share in network office for printhing ( need setup , ask your it managaer (or somthing like that) for doingit for you if you don't know how.

"The specs are nice"

Man Very Happy

i have 60 gig hard and i will tell you it will be full in no time if you install some software - recomand you to plan to buy 1 usb memory and have encryption software for time it necessary.( mostly ultra user have it - if they have a lots of file that need to be protect )

ps

your old laptop is friend of my old laptop ( 9 years old ^^ )- but i let him rest now.

ps2 :

if you want you can also update your windows 8 in p3 to windows 8.1 - it's free and can be done by yourself or seller if you ask.

again sorry for my bad english Smiley Wink

hlybg2000

thank you very much for the help, that tells me a whole lot. I pretty much knew I would need an external hard drive or USB Drive for extra memory but as long as it functions somewhat normally to a laptop, then that makes my decision easier. Once again thank you very much

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