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For the price I couldn't ask for more.

Intel core i3 @2.4 GHz, 4 GBs of RAM, and a 320 GB hard drive.

Clear screen with rich color and a good black level.

Webcam is pretty standard for a laptop. Good picture given enough light.

Came with a bit of bloatware, but not too much. Even so, I reinstalled Win 7 and the programs I wanted for my needs (made sure to make an image of the stock configuration before).

Performance is quick and responsive while browsing, opening large pdf's, and watching video.

Should do fine with light gaming, although I don't use it for that.

With normal use, I'm getting anywhere from 3-4 hours from the battery.

Touchpad works well with no skipping. All the same, I invested in a laptop mouse and disabled the touchpad. Easy enough.

One little mono speaker, with the quality of sound you'd expect from that. It's clear enough to watch video and hear what's being said, but if you're planning on listening to music or watching video with stereo sound, get a decent pair of portable earphones.

It's pretty light for such a big notebook, just under 6 lbs.

If you're planning on traveling with this, you'll want a solid case for it. While it is by no means flimsy, it's not the most solid notebook I've owned.

Construction is all light plastic.

Have only has this for about a month, so we'll see how it holds up over time, but for now, all's well.

For just over $400, I consider this an excellent buy.

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This is the second ACER I bought for my 11 years son, the firts one he only was 8, and he is a amaze with his new laptop fast than the previous one, better screen quality and windows 7 he can't be happier.

This is a very good Laptop for this price.

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To all of those looking for not a good but a great computer for the price, make sure you get to see this one, not pricy and very easy to carry and work with, it has all the necessary stuff for you to work without worries.

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I agonize over any purchase over $20 and this one (thankfully as usual) turned out to be a good investment. I was looking for a netbook or laptop that could step in as a home media PC (limited use), handle basic tasks like word and even some light video editing/graphic design I was drawn to this guy over and over for the 2.4ghz processing speed, 4 gig ram (upgraded to 8 for $31 at microcenter), ability to handle HD vid/audio through HDMI and just overall good reviews. Take off the limited bloatware, toy with the wifi (if you need to) and you will be rocking and rolling with this fast little puppy! I can run photoshop and 8 chrome tabs with no problems, I installed VLC player and have watched hours of 720 and 1080 video, mostly MKV's, with no problems or skipping or anything and I'm running out the HDMI into a 55" plasma. It's a gorgeous video feed and no tinkering with settings, pretty much just let it mirror your desktop which it does automatically. Sound on the speaker can get decently loud however it's tingy but rest assured through headphones or into your home receiver or just portable speaker it is cranking out beautiful sound and 7.1 channels with no problems. Didn't need the big hard drive but no complaints. As said, upgraded to 2x 4 gig mem cards (it has 2 slots only FYI) for a total of 8 gig. My only issue was the wifi signal at home dropping out, it would start at 105 MBPS which is good but I would watch it drop out to as low as 7 at times! I was even thinking of returning it, I restored it, updated drivers, still bad. My 2 yo Acer netbook was flying with no probs. I hardwired this thing through ethernet and it was a steady 150 MBPS but who wants wires?! Anyway, I just opened the intel settings and tinkered with it and it was being limited to a 20 ghz channel (or something, I can't recall), I put that setting on auto and it's been steady over 100 ever since! Netflix in HD, no problems. Phew! I got mine from microcenter for $379 + $30 for memory upgrade. Oh and ya, it's a plastic cover which means (good) lighter laptop and (I guess not so good to some people) feels cheaper than my netbook or older laptops but look if you drop these things without a static hard drive or whatever you could easily be S-O-L regardless so don't let that bother you. Buy this guy, open up the pretty HD display (I'm getting 4+ hours of batter life which is a super bonus too!) and enjoy for less than 1/2 of what a mac would cost and a lot less than ultrabooks at the moment.

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I bought this computer for some correspondence college courses and general study/ internet and have been EXTREMELY satisfied! I wanted something that could handle some graphics for games such as battlefield and America's Army 3, but wouldn't break the bank and this is what I got! With the Core i3 processor and 4GBs of RAM, this thing ZOOMS on the internet! What a steal! the only thing that I don't like is all of the bloatware, but tha is to be expected coming from the manufacturer itself.

5/5 for me!