My husbad and I had been shopping for a laptop for him for some time.  We shopped around at different stores and then we went to Staples and found our Acer.  I told him he could have his pick and he chose the acer because it had 120 g hard drive and a 14 inch screen.  He put his fingers on the key board and it was a nice fit.  The downfall was that it had Windows Vista as the operating system.  My husband does not like Vista.  We asked the clerk about putting sometihing different on it but it would cost us extra to buy it and have it put on professionally.  We decided to go with the computer...