Rating: 8 out of 10 (Excellent)
Pros: Solid build, good feature set and strong hardware. Quick and snappy performance (provided bloatware are uninstalled). Elegant design and the glowing Acer logo on top is a nice touch. Some useful software included. DLNA-compatible and has HDMI and SPDIF optical output.
Cons: Glossy top is prone to fingerprints, mediocre battery life with the standard battery, The USB port on the right side is right next to the power charger port and it might be fiddly for bigger USB devices. Power and touch-buttons LED is kinda bright and might become annoying working in the dark,
Opinion:
I've been using the 4930G for about a month now, my SKU's spec is as follows: Intel Core 2 P8600, nVidia 9300GS, 3GB DDR2-667, 320GB HDD, 802.11a/b/g/Draft n.

I like the laptop a lot, the design is quite pleasing (though I'm not a big fan of the glossy top, a fingerprint magnet for sure), but the glowing Acer logo is a nice touch, the build is also quite solid with the keyboard is good to type on and has very little flex. Overall it's just quite a good laptop and good value for money. I've found that it does come with a quite a bit of unnecessary software, but after I uninstall all that nonsense Acer Arcade/Acer Games Deluxe and all the other bloatware the computer is a pleasure to use. Bluetooth/Wifi N is a nice touch, and the Acer Empowering Software suite does a decent job of giving you control over the laptop's function and power-saving settings. I would still recommend you dig around with Vista's various tweaks in order to give full control of your laptop, but for non-power users, it's decent. Overall, the laptop is snappy and my only ggripe is the low battery life on the standard 6-cell battery (just around 3 hours of casual use of office software, screen on 50% brightness and with WiFi and Bluetooth off, you'll get less if you're playing games or doing heavy lifting).

Potential users please note: Stupid Acer decided that it's good to NOT give you recovery CDs, instead they ship the laptop with two hidden partitions, one that contains the factory-default installation of Windows Vista Home Premium and another one that contains the Instant-On Acer Media Center feature (access all your media without having to boot into Vista). This would actually be a nice feature, but if you consider the fact that the hidden partitions are Basic Partitions and you'll realize that any given HDDs can only have 4 basic partitions, thus making re-organization of your hard drive very awkward. I personally find the instant-on arcade useless (all its features are duplicated by the Vista's build-in media center application), so I removed the hidden partition that contains it and thus I was able to resize the remaining partitions with a little bit more breathing room (creating dynamic discs and logical partitions and the likes).

Thank god the Acer Software lets you back-up the factory default to DVDs, which I highly recommend is the first thing you should do, at least for the peace of mind.

Also, please note that the 'factory default' actually includes all the bloatware, so the second thing you should do after burning the factory default to DVDs is uninstalling all that crap, put on all your softwares/antivirus/personal settings then save that as your initial user backup and then burn that to DVD also, so in case something goes wrong, you can revert to your own functional system instead of having to revert to factory default and manually doing all that again.

On a side-note, the Acer eSecurity Management software that provides encryption for files and folder is glitchy and it conflicts with Check Point's ZoneAlarm products, so if you are a user of the ZoneAlarm Firewall/Security products, uninstall this before you put ZA on your system, VERY IMPORTANT!!! I found out the hard way after two factory-default resets and finally trace the incompatibility to this. It's a pain in the rear.

Regarding installing XP on this laptop, it is very lengthy/frustrating. Not because installing XP on it is hard, but because the devil is in the details. One of the reasons is the HDD partitioning, as I mentioned above. The laptop comes with 2 hidden partitions and 2 visible partitions, so if you don't want all the hassle, you can have Vista on your C partition (default), install XP on the D partition, reinstall the boot loader to allow dual-booting, and then call it a day. However, I'm against keeping my data and documents in the same folder as the system folder, so naturally, I wanted to have Vista on C, XP on D and resize both those two partition to allow me two more partitions, one for my documents and the other for random crap. Problem is, the laptop comes with 4 basic partitions, so whatever way you look at it, it's tricky (Boot partitions have to be basic partition). After much fiddling with 3 different partition manager software and even trying Vista's built in Disk Management tool, I was able to pull it off, but not without a lot of frustrating moments and swearing at myself doing so, that's one awkward moment.

The second gripe is drivers/software suites for the laptop. Acer does not provide XP-compatible drivers for this particular model, so basically you're left with trying your luck with Vista drivers on XP, and most of them won't work. After much fiddling, I have found that there is indeed XP versions of the drivers from Acer's Chinese FTP site. Acer's Empowering Technology suite is not avaiable in XP-compatible form for this model, but I have tried using XP-version of this suite for Acer Aspire 5920 laptop, and while not all of the elements of the suite is fully compatible, you do get the most important stuff, mainly power management utility and backup utilities... I have the links to those drivers and softwares, as well as workaround for disk partitioning problems, so you can contact me if you're so inclined.

All in all, getting XP onto this laptop is possible, but definitely not pretty, and in some respect there are pretty significant trade-offs (e.g. the power saving features are not particularly optimized, and running in XP won't give you significant boost in battery life at all). You'll also have to put up with prowling through countless web searches trying to find the right drivers. Really, I don't think it's worth the effort. I have put XP on mine successfully, but to be honest, during the week-odd time it took me to find all the right drivers and programs, I've grown used to Vista and its quirks, and so now I rarely even boot up to XP anymore, it's just there as an option. If you're just trying to put XP on because you don't like Vista, I'd recommend spending some time with Vista first, it does take some time to learn to tolerate, but after that, if you still can't stand it, email me at duynguyenle(a t)gmail(d ot)com and I'll give you a few pointers to help.

All in all, a solid laptop. Good luck with your purchases.

P/S: In case you want to install XP, please note that the HDD in this laptop is factory-defaulted to operating in ACHI mode, and you will either have to create your own installation of XP with the drivers slipstreamed into it, or switch the drive back to legacy IDE mode in order to install XP. Contact me if you need help and I'll give you some useful links on how to do this.
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