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Acer Aspire has a very good performance and experience, I would recommend this device. I really love the user experience, performance and design of this device. Love it!
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Although everything else about this laptop is very impressive, especially the utility of the touch screen, the trackpad is ridiculously poorly designed.The trackpad may work fine for a novice who only requires it's use for basic web browsing and e-mail, but for those of us who would use it often to make on the fly precision mouse movements in order to edit graphics, or play games, the trackpad is useless.
It has strong aluminum texturizing to match the rest of the top surface of the laptop; which means it has deep horizontal grooves that allow for easy horizontal movement but dramatically inhibit vertical movement.
I found that moving up or down required a much lighter touch than moving right or left because my fingers got caught on the horizontal grooves, causing the mouse to stutter.
This inconsistency was infuriating for the few moments I used the trackpad to try and 'two finger scroll' down a webpage. I don't know about my wife, but I'd send the laptop back.
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Now that I have had a few days to mess around with this laptop, I feel like it is worth letting everyone know how great it is. I guarantee you, once you move to a touch screen laptop you will never want to go back.The device is very quick to power on, and unlock some other laptops I have had it is very quick to shift between standby and operational. When I am done I simply close the lid and it goes to sleep conserving power very quickly. When I'm ready to use it again, I flip it open, tap the space bar and it is ready to go after entering my password. I no longer feel the need to keep it plugged in constantly like I have with my previous laptops.
The bottom of the laptop is a very hard plastic, presumably to make it more comfortable in you lap, although it does blow out warm air after using it for awhile. It isn't uncomfortable, but I am considering getting a laptop cooler to set it on for extended use. The lid and upper part are a brushed metal and looks very nice. It is probably the most aesthetically pleasing Acer I have had.
Unlike my previous laptops, the keys are all isolated from one another and protrude through the single piece brushed metal top. I think this makes it much more durable than your average keyboard for a laptop, although I shudder to think of the pain to replace a key if you every do have an issue. I don't think it will be a problem, and I do like the keyboard and layout, along with the full number pad to the right. It also has a mousepad at the bottom, although I don't find myself using that too much.
The touch screen is great! It is very responsive and apparently supports multi-touch up to 10 fingers, although I can't imagine when I would need to utilize that. This is big selling point of the laptop. Windows 8 is the best OS Microsoft has put out, so long as you have a touch screen. Most everything about it is very intuitive, and I find myself transition between tasks much easier than on previous versions of Windows.
The computer comes ready to go without too much bloatware on it. I have yet to find any annoying apps that I had to immediately get rid of. I have gotten nowhere near doing a full tweak of the PC to kill extra processes and services, but it doesn't feel necessary based on the speed of this laptop. It has a Windows Experience of 5.8, which is better than I would expect at this price range. For those so interested, the sub scores are Processor: 6.8, Memory: 7.2, Graphics: 5.8, Gaming Graphics: 6.6, and Primary Hard Disk: 5.9. In any case it has more than enough horse power to handle most tasks you would expect to perform with a system in this price range.
The final item I want to plug is the sound system. That is not normally something you think of in a laptop, but Acer went to great lengths to give this machine incredible sound. It has a 4 speaker sound system, and you can watch movies on this device and be very happy about it. You will most likely not want to have the volume cranked up all the way unless you are hearing impaired! It is literally the best sound I have ever heard from a laptop.
The drawbacks are that this has no optical drive. I had honestly not even noticed that prior to ordering, but then I considered how much I actually used the drive on my last laptop and decided I didn't care. My main other complaint is this is a bit heavier than I would expect for an ultrathin laptop, but it isn't massively heavier than I would expect. I attribute this mainly to the reasonably powerful hardware installed.
If you are ready to jump into Windows 8, this is the laptop you want. I don't think you will be disappointed.
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