Comments on: Quick look at Budget Laptop / Notebook Acer 4710z

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 06:35:01 +0000

I’ll just point out that Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope works well on the Acer Aspire 4710Z, even with only 512MB RAM – much faster than Windows XP Professional SP3. Compiz works very well too!

Wireless works perfectly under Jaunty via an automatically identified restricted driver, however I can’t get Bluetooth working. Also, the WLAN toggle button is inverted, ie: it’s off when WLAN is on, and lit when WLAN is off. Other than that, all the extra buttons are automatically detected by Jaunty and you only need to assign something to the green “e” key (in my case I assigned launching Firefox).

Windows XP support can be gained through trawling through the 945M chipset drivers on Intel’s website. Don’t rely on the Acer website. Intel’s drivers are a little older, but they work smoother and faster in XP than the official Acer drivers.

By: prem

prem — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:03:22 +0000

can i upgrade memory from 1GB to 3 GB in acer aspire 4710z

By: Gerry T. Rasmus aka KOTO

Gerry T. Rasmus aka KOTO — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 23:58:44 +0000

Aloha
I have the ACER ASPIRE 4710Z, I find it quite hard most of the time to boot up (turn on) more often then not I get a white screen, sometimes I remove the barrery and all is well, many times I must button down to turn off, As you can see I know very little,I seldom take computer where I would use the battery, Is leaving it out OK ? I also have split second black outs been this way from new. Mahalo for any kind of help

By: Debashis

Debashis — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 18:24:22 +0000

Planning to buy a laptop. Confused between acer aspire 5920 and dell 1525. Please help.

By: Anish

Anish — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:29:58 +0000

i am using acer 4710z since a year.
but i m using XP on it and the bluetooth doesnt work upon it.
so will installing vista make the bluetooth work?
and also will vista eat the resources as there is only 1Gb RAM and no graphics card?
secondly is there any slot to add upon the graphics card if i wish to?

By: Choto Cheeta

Choto Cheeta — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:18:00 +0000

Hello, Please use the forum to post your questions, its easy to answer and discuss under a forum based environment rather as a blog comment. Thank you.

By: Prashant

Prashant — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 06:58:18 +0000

Hi Friend,
Great description you have given. Actually I got this same piece for home purpose.
The device is working fine, just that the dealer here installed Win XP in it (.. XP is just degarding all its features like .. WLAN , Bluetooth, etc is not working due to lack of s/w.
Sound quality is below average ..
Please suggest some help for this..

By: sachin

sachin — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:22:41 +0000

any idea about
acer 5920
i want to buy this laptop

By: Choto Cheeta

Choto Cheeta — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 06:03:49 +0000

Hello Sir,

Please use this bellow link to find your self the right drivers

http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/notebook/as_4710.html

By: dr. rajkumar

dr. rajkumar — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:25:46 +0000

hi,i have got acer 4710z, and recentky igot it formatted but now i dont have proper drivers. can you please tell me from which site i can download all of my drivers.
thanks