I don't really planning on posting updates to my review in the coming months so here's what I have to say about the laptop so far:
Overall, it's been great for me. It's nicely designed and does everything I need it to do. I bought it planning to use CAD software in the later years at college. The display is okay, I wouldn't call it Macbook status, but I wasn't looking to be able to see imperfections on high quality pictures. The keyboard feels good in that key travel is comfortable. Not too short, not overly long either. The touchpad works well however I have found myself accidentally bumping it when I type which leads to me moving the cursor up to a higher line of text, potentially messing up what I have typed. Not really too big an issue, I have learned to work around it.
The few qualms I have with it are on the software side. IIRC, I picked mine up from Best Buy (shame on me) and the description mentioned it comes with Win 7 Pro whereas elsewhere it mentioned the laptop comes loaded with Win 8 Pro. I was looking for 7 as I'm not a massive fan of 8. I got the laptop, opened the box, and saw Win 8 instructions. There is also a Win 8 sticker on the underside of the laptop. Only problem, though not for me, is that it is actually running Win 7 Pro as advertised. Another problem I have had on and off is the fingerprint scanner will choose to not work once in a while. This isn't too bad as I also have a password I can type in to get past having to scan my finger. I use the scanner for ease more so than the security. I think it's safe to say that if someone stole your laptop, they would be able to somehow find a way to access your data. On that note though, there is Acer Business protection, or something close to that, which enables you to remotely delete data on the laptop if you do find the laptop's gone missing (this is if I actually read the manual correctly, don't take my word for that though). The other issue I have had is that sometimes when I wake the laptop from sleep, it's unresponsive. I try to open programs and it seems to lock down. The mouse still moves but nobody's home. This is if I go and immediately start a program though. I have learned to give it a few seconds, quite literally, after it wakes up to run a program.
Thinking about it now, I may try and update the review when I load CAD software onto the laptop. I'll see how it runs with the stock memory (8GB) and let you know if I can lock the computer up truly (I had that issue a few times running AutoDesk on a desktop where I worked previously).
I'm not sure how soon the laptop is going to be phased out, but I figured I should write this review if someone out there is still looking at this laptop wondering if it's a good buy.
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