143 verified purchasers have reviewed this product.
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Score 10.0/10
Barney, Worcester, UK
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The graphics are very good, especially for gaming
the built in card reader is excellent
I personally have owned 3 laptops in my life and this has to be the best by far
I had specs for the basic stuff i needed and i got a card reader, a blu-ray player and a DVI port, I was stunned when i pulled it outta the box and found these
the storage is superb at 250gb and graphics runs every game i've got, which some have never been played until now.
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The only down side is the start up, if you kill the battery or overheat it, it has a mind of it's own whether or not it'll boot up windows, but i just leave it for a few moments and start it back up and it's fine,
Other than that this laptop is excellent for any 15 year old gamer, with the casual bit of homework on the side,
13 of 13 people found this review helpful
purchased 25 Feb 2009
Score 7.0/10
Wing, London
, “In IT for years”
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Good processor, adequate memory, good graphics card, it's got blueray, keyboard fine. For it's size, glad Acer included a numpad. Has card adapter. Speed reasonable. Extra-space for another 2.5" hard-disk. Wireless bluetooth. Sound great. Glad exhaust vents are on the sides, not at the bottom. Battery is average, but never expected a laptop like this to run on batteries.
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Bit heavy, but that's to be expected. The power input at the back can be very delicate. Would have preferred higher resolution FULL HD screen 1080p, but the current screen is adequate. Would have preferred if LEDs for HD activity were on the front.
13 of 14 people found this review helpful
purchased 02 Mar 2009
Score 10.0/10
Frank, N.wales
, “retired sports photographer”
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All round best computer I have ever used
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A little slow on initial boot up,unfortunatly a feature of vista
10 of 11 people found this review helpful
purchased 29 May 2008
Score 9.0/10
Anonymous verified purchaser
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Has all the spec that I was looking for including a 17 inch screen,a good graphics card and a good size hard drive and 2GB of memory
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None yet
8 of 9 people found this review helpful
purchased 10 Apr 2008
Score 9.0/10
Anonymous verified purchaser
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Its a lovely looking laptop. nice sleek design bit wieghty but that's good on my watch. I just quite like the astetics of it.
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Can sometimes freeze but that's more the software than hardware.
6 of 6 people found this review helpful
purchased 15 Feb 2009
Score 8.0/10
John, Portsmouth
, “Silver Surfer family user”
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Good size keyboard, big hard drive and RAM Good desk top replacement laptop
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ACER Launch tool softwear not running properly carries out 12 processes out of 12 but 12 never ends
5 of 6 people found this review helpful
purchased 14 Feb 2009
Score 9.0/10
Alex, Watford
, “level headed”
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great value and really high spec
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blu ray drive didnt work, had to exchange. plus they sent the wrong power charger
4 of 4 people found this review helpful
purchased 02 Mar 2009
Score 9.0/10
Debby, Filby, Norfolk
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fantastic web cam!! very fast computer, keyboard full size & soft keys very easy to use, large memory & able to complete a lot of tasks at once. Clear screen & good colours. This was brought as a replacement for my desk top & in all ways is better than the desktop. Just taking me time to get used to Vista!!!!!!!!!!
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None that I have found yet except maybe the battery life, a bit short but hey just plug it in!!!!!
4 of 4 people found this review helpful
purchased 06 Apr 2009
Score 8.0/10
Paul, Nottingham
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Vista is easy to use if you are familiar with XP but it seems to be more useful in practice. You need to download less third party software than with XP and more peripherals seem to work plug n play without having to download drivers. Laptop itself has a nice screen and looks nice - when there aren't fingermarks on it.
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Top tip for buyers that other reviewers should be aware of. This laptop ships with outdated firmware. There is a problem that once the laptop has been shut down for more than a few hours, it won't boot up first time. You need to hold down the power button for it to shutdown and restart. The latest firmware can be downloaded from the Acer site and this fixes the problem. However, Acer's customer service aren't aware of this problem/fix and the first rep I spoke to even advised me not to do it. Luckily, the 2nd rep I spoke to was more pragmatic and said to do it at my own risk. It was straightforward and took minutes. Now it starts first time every time. Remember - Google is more of a friend than any helpdesk - or should they be called 'unhelpful'desk?
5 of 6 people found this review helpful
purchased 04 Jun 2009
Score 10.0/10
Anonymous verified purchaser
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Nice looking, appropriate specs for a Desktop replacement easy to set up
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None discovered yet
4 of 5 people found this review helpful
purchased 17 Feb 2009
Score 6.0/10
Anonymous verified purchaser
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Big screen size and resoultion, Hardware layout, Webcam.
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Heavy, Bad battery life, Poor Graphics, Unreliable.
4 of 5 people found this review helpful
purchased 23 Feb 2009
Score 8.0/10
Anonymous verified purchaser
, “Open University student”
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Good sized display, number pad a great help. Easy to use
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Problems with start-up. Fails to start first time 90% of the time, need to switch off and re-try. Flimsy feeling keyboard.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
purchased 07 Mar 2009
Score 8.0/10
Kevin, Belfast
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Excellent and easy set-up. Excellent graphics - good for gaming. I would have preferred Windows XP option but as first time user of Vista I actually like its capability!
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None yet. But haven't required any assistance or customer supprt etc yet so will reserve judgement for now.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
purchased 25 Mar 2009
Score 9.0/10
phil, birmingham
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Easy setup, good clear screen and graphics. Good features.
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none
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
purchased 27 Mar 2009
Score 7.0/10
CAGRI, WESTON_SUPER_MARE
, “Acer lover”
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very good for the price. have everything you may need on a multimedia computer, starting with a powerfull RAM and graphics memory, to a good bundle of connectivity ports (USBs, firewire, all sorts of memory cards...) internet-wireless connectivity is powerfull and great.
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battery life should be better. you need to boot twice on every start but it might be due to Windows vista. The package comes without any CD/DVDs. First installation stucks at the 12th and the last stage, it is not a problem ( as has a easy solution when communicated with acer help) but annoying. It is on the heavy side, so you need a good laptop bag.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
purchased 31 Mar 2009
Score 8.0/10
Paul , Glasgow
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Good laptop with decent specs will play games at medium setting also very good to look at.
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the battery life is very short and notebook is a little heavy
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
purchased 31 Mar 2009
Score 8.0/10
Anonymous verified purchaser
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Fast, reliable, extremely good value for money
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none so far
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
purchased 04 Apr 2009
Score 7.0/10
brad, alloa
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big screen value for money
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too much preloaded software that makes the computer slow to start
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
purchased 15 Apr 2009
Score 9.0/10
Anonymous verified purchaser
, “General home user”
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Easy to use, reliable, great bit of kit
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Does not alwya start up on first attempt
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
purchased 24 May 2009
Score 7.0/10
Romi, Handsworth Wood
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Has a good spec. Blu-ray Rom, Core 2 Duo , 3GB Ram, 250Gb HD, 17" monitor, ok graphics. The refurbished package offeres overall good value for money.
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Graphics should be more powerfull as they dont give a very high rating on the graphics performance measurement software.
The DVI connection port is yesterdays connection standard, with a blu-ray movie player you would expect a standardised HDMI port to be offered instead. The user is therefore burdened to further purchase DVI-HDMI cable converters to connect to HDMI devices such as LCD or projectors.
A cleaning cloth to clean the screen should be given.
The battery length is OK, in this day and age you would expect a nuclear fuel cell installed to give 100 years of laptop power usage.
Users want vista installation discs on the probable chance in the laptops life time a OS reinstall is required. No Recovery discs provided. No instructions on going to specific web sites for driver updates.
Audio ports should be at the back.
No printed manuals.
3 of 5 people found this review helpful
purchased 02 Mar 2009
Score 6.0/10
Anonymous verified purchaser
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t looks nice and nice big screen.
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it doesnt always starts up first time and has to be switched off and started again most of the time.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
purchased 30 Mar 2009
Score 9.0/10
Dave, Brighton
, “Silver ebayer!”
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Great screen,graphics and sound (through phones)
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No manual with purchase. A vertical slider on the mousepad would've been a definite advantage.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
purchased 05 Apr 2009
Score 6.0/10
Anonymous verified purchaser
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I like the design and the colour
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Vista is the bad point, not the laptop itself. If I had known Vista was as bad as this I would have avoided it like the plague. It is terrible to say the least. Give me XP any day
2 of 3 people found this review helpful
purchased 20 Apr 2009
Score 9.0/10
Anonymous verified purchaser
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It has a complete keyboard i.e. it includes the numerical keypad and associated keys as well as the typerwriter section.
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it doesn't always fire up first time and we often have to force it to close and try again
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
purchased 27 Apr 2009
Score 6.0/10
Mike, Calne
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Blue ray drive screen clarity and harddirve
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NO CD's and you have to build them before you install
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
purchased 01 May 2009
Score 6.0/10
Anonymous verified purchaser
, “General home user”
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- looks really nice and professional
- good quality display
- plenty of memory and a large HDD capacity
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- what a terrible graphics card
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
purchased 25 May 2009
Score 2.0/10
Thomas, Grangemouth
, “General home user”
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Reviewer left no comment
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Never loads up 1st time, always crashes but after resetting seems to work fine!!!!
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
purchased 20 May 2009
Score 10.0/10
Alfred, Ellesmere Port
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Not found any bad points up to now
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Reviewer left no comment
1 of 2 people found this review helpful
purchased 15 Mar 2009
Score 1.0/10
Timothy, newcastle co down
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seemed like a very nice pc. \if only it worked ???
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When I bought it I bought alot of problems, I am still attempting to resolve ???
1 of 2 people found this review helpful
purchased 30 Mar 2009
Score 7.0/10
Anonymous verified purchaser
, “PC Instalation/maintanence enganear”
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Reasonable priced Desktop replacement (not very portable), with big screen. Can take 2 Hard drives (comes with one and you can easily add a second)
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Poor badly flexing keyboard, no blue tooth
1 of 2 people found this review helpful
purchased 30 Mar 2009
Score 9.0/10
Anonymous verified purchaser
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good speeed, nice style
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battery life.
1 of 2 people found this review helpful
purchased 01 Apr 2009
Score 2.0/10
Anonymous verified purchaser
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Come with the latest technology
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OS problem, never been fixed.
1 of 2 people found this review helpful
purchased 04 Apr 2009
Score 7.0/10
Phil, Taunton
, “Enthusiastic computing amateur”
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Excellent features and performance for the price. Nice screen. This laptop makes an excellent desktop replacement with some protability rather than a portable notebook. If you don't have a lot of space, but need some serious computing power/performance, this is the product for you.
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The battery life and weight do not make this a serious contender as a notebook and the graphics capabilities mean this won't be a serious gaming machine.
purchased 16 Apr 2009
Score 8.0/10
Mark, Shefield
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Good value Laptop
Quick wiyh great graphics
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Heavy
purchased 12 Apr 2009
Score 8.0/10
Anonymous verified purchaser
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well laid out keyboard easy to set up and use on a daily basis. Acer eNet software made connecting to a wireless network easy. For the price an excellent buy.
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Reviewer left no comment
purchased 22 Apr 2009
Score 7.0/10
Nigel, Southampton
, “Silver surfer”
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Well specified, has features to meet most needs for laptops & desktop.
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A bit on the heavy side & difficult to find a carry case.
purchased 26 Apr 2009
Score 8.0/10
Mark, Newhaven
, “male 40 year old”
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does every thing I want plus a few things besides. Also has a numeric key pad
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windows vista. Takes dome getting used to after XP
purchased 27 Apr 2009
Score 8.0/10
Anonymous verified purchaser
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Reviewer left no comment
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Always takes two gos to get started
1 of 2 people found this review helpful
purchased 27 Apr 2009
Score 9.0/10
Jessica, Aldershot
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Nvidia geforce 9300 graphics card, 17" screen, webcam, great performance and VALUE FOR MONEY!
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Perhaps a better looking interior would have been preferable, instead of white.
purchased 23 May 2009
Score 7.0/10
liz, barnsley
, “General home user”
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i love the large screen very clear and great graphics. great processor.
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the mouse pad is very sensitive and you often touch it while typing and it causes hard work, would be better with a smaller pad or moving slightly to one side.
purchased 19 May 2009
Score 1.0/10
Anonymous verified purchaser
, “General home user”
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Wide Screen
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The reconditioned laptop I've been supplied with has got a problem. I'm having to turn it on,off and then on again before I get the opportunity to log in
purchased 25 May 2009
Score 9.0/10
andy, hull
, “General home user”
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good spec for money
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had to download video drivers and patch to get rid of mesage
purchased 21 May 2009
Score 8.0/10
Kevin, Stoke on Trent
, “General home user”
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Usual standard stylish and efficient
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Too much software already installed and of very poor providers...
purchased 27 May 2009
Score 10.0/10
Anonymous verified purchaser
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The laptop has an eye catching 17inch screen which is perfect when watching a blu ray movie on. The colour inside of the keys is also smart and not the regular. The built in webcam is a perfect picture without any blurryness. I own one of these myself and i bought the reconditioned model for my husband. The only downside i have is the volume isnt very loud, but i get around that with headphones, apart from that im very pleased with it. The reconditioned laptop was in perfect and new condition, with no scratches or damage.
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As stated the volume could be louder.
purchased 26 May 2009
Score 9.0/10
mick, st ives cambs
, “General home user”
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crisp picture
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dose not boot up first time
purchased 28 May 2009
Score 6.0/10
Anonymous verified purchaser
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Reviewer left no comment
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the computer fails to switch on in about 40% of cases the light goes on but the machine does not boot.It has to be switched off by the on/off button and the process repeated.
onon
purchased 01 Jun 2009
Score 10.0/10
paul , cardiff
, “Music, gaming or video fan”
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its all good
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no bad points
purchased 25 May 2009
Score 2.0/10
Louisa, Edinburgh
, “General home user”
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slick, lots of excellent features available. 17" screen and big keyboard - all good.
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Clearly it wasn't properly tested prior to being released for general sale as there was growing number of problems arising on a daily basis. (it was a refurbished laptop)
purchased 03 Jun 2009
Score 6.0/10
Anonymous verified purchaser
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Excellent specifiaction laptop for the price.
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Battery life is only a maximum of 2.5 hours. Acer software slows system right down.
purchased 09 Jun 2009
Score 10.0/10
Keith, Dunfermline
, “General home user”
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Large screen
Overall fast performance
seperat numeric keypad good idea
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battery life
purchased 05 Jun 2009
Score 9.0/10
Mark, Kings Lynn
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excellent value, brand new. could not tell it was reconditioned
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none to mention
purchased 03 Jun 2009
Score 1.0/10
Nysret , London
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very less. if i new i would never buy it.
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Do not buy. If you prefer very slow laptop and if you want to switch on and of many times befor it starts then go for this type of laptop. they are very slow as well and waist of money.
purchased 13 Jun 2009
Score 8.0/10
Anonymous verified purchaser
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Good graphics card for gaming, quick performance, Good price for value of laptop
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heavy weight
purchased 18 Jun 2009
Score 9.0/10
jackie, london
, “General home user”
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overall it's a good buy
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battery life doesn't last long enough
purchased 17 Jun 2009
Score 8.0/10
Anonymous verified purchaser
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HAS EVERYTHING REQUIRED FOR A HOME LAPTOP
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DOES'NT COME WITH WINDOWS OPERATING DISC OR ANY PROGRAM DISC'S WHICH ARE INSTALLED ON THE MACHINE(VERY POOR)
purchased 12 Jun 2009
Score 9.0/10
Rogerio, London/East Dulwich
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Well, it have an excelent performance and it looks like a brand new one.
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No bad points, but avoid to use it over the sofa or bed! Be smart please!
purchased 20 Jun 2009
Score 8.0/10
Mark, Stockport
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Value for the price.
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It take a while to get used too.
purchased 19 Jun 2009
Score 6.0/10
Matthew Varney, Coventry
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Good spec for the money (Bluray, 3GB ram, 250GB hard drive)
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The product has a boot up fault which is only rectified by flashing the BIOs. This is a tricky process and shouldnt be undertaken by a beginner.
purchased 27 Jun 2009
SAIUD , LONDON SOUTHALL
, “Music, gaming or video fan”
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EXCELLNT
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NO ANY BAD POINT
purchased 20 Jun 2009
Score 9.0/10
david, rabat malta
, “Music, gaming or video fan”
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nice design lovely to use amazin value 4 money
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windows vista is a pain too restrictive microsoft is big brother
purchased 29 Jun 2009
Score 9.0/10
Anonymous verified purchaser
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exellent performance
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battery life
purchased 07 Jul 2009
Score 10.0/10
wayne cuttell, doncaster
, “Music, gaming or video fan”
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excelent performance and the blue ray player is fantastic
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slow start up
purchased 02 Jul 2009
Score 8.0/10
Ian, Peacehaven
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The battery life could be better.
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As a whole, it will run everything I need it to with no problems.
purchased 18 Jul 2009
Score 7.0/10
Anonymous verified purchaser
, “General home user”
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Reviewer left no comment
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sometimes after shutting the lid it will not come out of sleep mode....i have hold the power button down to switch off and the turn back on to which it ask me if i want safe mode.
the laptop says 'ready for output to hdtv' for which i expected an hdmi port but not so.....don't know if its missed off or if i have to connect another way.
purchased 22 Jul 2009
Score 8.0/10
kowalski, walsall
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quality
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sametimies not starting after pressing the button
purchased 20 Jul 2009
Score 5.0/10
Anonymous verified purchaser
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Reviewer left no comment
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Never turns on first time
purchased 12 Jul 2009
Score 3.0/10
martin, atherstone
, “General home user”
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good quality screen
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often doesn,t start up correctly
purchased 13 Jul 2009
Score 8.0/10
Anonymous verified purchaser
, “Business user”
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Exellent price. Powerful system
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Its big and heavy - not good for a commuter!
purchased 27 Jul 2009
Score 9.0/10
Ian, Exeter
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High Spec for the money
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Not really at this price
purchased 27 Jul 2009
fiona , gravesend
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very quick on internet.user friendly webcam very good
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battery life poor.clock loses about a 30 seconds a day
purchased 22 Jul 2009
Score 8.0/10
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High spec and cheap
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Vista and other associated MS rubbish - I hate it. Running Ubuntu as a dual boot
purchased 28 Jul 2009
Score 8.0/10
Barry, Tamworth
, “General home user”
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big screen nice sound
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will not start up on the first attempt
purchased 02 Aug 2009
Score 9.0/10
Joanne, North Lanarkshire
, “Music, gaming or video fan”
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Full size keyboard, big monitor, webcam, bluetooth, graphics excellent, capable of running the Sims 3 at medium settings comfortably, doesn't get too hot, long battery life, sound amazing, very loud!
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rubber feet on bottom dig into knees when using it on your lap - that really is the only bad point I can think of!!
purchased 04 Aug 2009
Score 9.0/10
Anonymous verified purchaser
, “General home user”
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Reviewer left no comment
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would prefer if the inside was black. however that a little price to pay for such a fab laptop my daughter loves it and has highjacked it from me for university this sept.
purchased 03 Aug 2009
Score 8.0/10
callum, peterlee
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Large screen, blueray player, built in webcam,
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Quite heavy, battery seems to heat alot when not plugged in.
purchased 06 Aug 2009
Score 7.0/10
John, Winchester
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good clear screen , easy set up firm keys.
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a bit too much fragile plastic, when opened the weight of the screen tips the keyboard over.
purchased 06 Aug 2009
Score 1.0/10
Anonymous verified purchaser
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Big screen
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It didn't work - hard drive was corrupt, windows didn't install properly and it would not function on external power at all.
purchased 06 Aug 2009
Score 5.0/10
Tuomas Mcvey, Milton keynes
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Reviewer left no comment
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Everytime I switch the computer on it freezes and I have to switch it off and on again before it starts working properly!!
purchased 17 Aug 2009
Score 7.0/10
dominic, eastbourne
, “General home user”
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bluray drive
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no software disc supplied
purchased 13 Aug 2009
Score 3.0/10
Anonymous verified purchaser
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Overall good specification on paper but quality poor. Selected laptop for graphics card and playing games. Games play well.
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Does not always power up. Every one in four time power up attempts there is a blank screen (black). If this occurs only way to reset laptop is to remove the battery and try again. Technical support at Acer recommended this. ACER technical support no help at all in solving the real problem.
Another problem is the wireless connection, for no reason at all it cuts out after a period of time and the only way to get a connection back is to power down the laptop and above problem can also occur when trying to switch back on. This is a very bad situation
purchased 16 Aug 2009
Score 10.0/10
lidia, nottingam
, “Business user”
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desing,performance,size of the screen,colour,bluray included..
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none at the present
purchased 17 Aug 2009
Score 9.0/10
Robert, London
, “son take to uni”
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Fast laptop with good screen and DVD and bluray.
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Set up required computer knowledge off loading display drivers. Not a problem for me but no pc literate my have needed help.
purchased 18 Aug 2009
Score 4.0/10
Anonymous verified purchaser
, “General home user”
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Very quick to connect to my wireless router and very easy to use.
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Battery life useless and it takes two or three attempts for the machine to come on!
purchased 17 Sep 2009
Score 7.0/10
John, Winchester
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Good looking, bright screen.
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Slow to load
purchased 27 Aug 2009
Score 7.0/10
Lee, Chepstow
, “General home user”
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Packed full of extras
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Low battery life
purchased 31 Mar 2009
Score 5.0/10
Anonymous verified purchaser
, “General home user”
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Powerfull and fast with large keyboard, essential for an old duffer
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No disks or manual, acer website does not recognise the model I bought ??
purchased 10 Oct 2009
Score 7.0/10
Anonymous verified purchaser
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speed when it running properly
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gone slow, takes awhile to load up and has crashed twice
2 of 5 people found this review helpful
purchased 01 Mar 2009
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