Typical price: £900
What is it: Ultra-slim Viiv-certified Media Center PC
What we think: A hugely stylish and capable multimedia system with plenty of connectivity options
Average user rating
5.1
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Average user rating from 15 users
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Acer Aspire iDea 500 user reviews
August 25, 2006
Posted by: Maurice Camp
"Really good looking piece of kit with disappointments"
What I like:
Styling is perfect, picture and sound quality pretty good
What I don't like:
User guide USELESS! Teletext doesn't work. Programme guide REALLY USELESS
Review:
If you have no techy knowledge find a friend before you buy ANY media centre. Mine came from DIGI UK, good price, excellent service but now FM radio doesn't work, almost impossible to stabilise the picture on one setting even on my new large LCD TV. Looks like my iDea 500 is going back for repair 5 days after purchase.
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