acer aspire 1353xv - any good ? 3g?

[johnjwaters]

Hey, a friend of mine is offering to sell me this...

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=56727#pinfo

for ?400.

Its 6 months old and I assume in good nick, reckon I should get it?

I want a laptop because I'm looking at signing up to vodafones 3g service, or gprs depending on how I'm feeling, so I can use the net while im abroad in italy. Anyone got any experience with this? how slow is the gprs? According to the guys review on ebuyer that laptop can play vice city without pros but...I dunno.

Any advice gratefully received

AAnd a quick valuation...

1800xp, 256, 266 crucial ddr, raid asus mobo, 17" lg monitor, 120gig hdd (wd) radeon 64 , chieftec scorpian case, dvdrom/cdrw combo.

[superkully]

It'll be much cheaper for you to use the Wireless networking their Telcos provide. I was in Milan couple weeks ago and they had wireless connectivity in quite a few places. I _think_ it was 10 Euros for an hour