Acer Aspire AS5750Z-4835 15.6-Inch Laptop (Black) Reviews

Acer Aspire AS5750Z-4835 15.6-Inch Laptop (Black), May 18, 2012

I just bought this laptop and although I like the hardware, it does have a few minor parts. Not a bad thing just things I would like to point out. So I’ll try to keep this brief and useful.

Pros
1. Has space for 8gigs of ram. Mine came with four and I already had another four, so now I have a total of 8 gigs on it. Four should work just fine, I just happened to have the extra four. My old laptop only has 2 and I still use it.
2. 1.3 mega pixel camera, seems to work great in low lighting as the lights are low in my room.
3. Nice clear screen and gestures on the pad for zooming in and out on web pages is nice. Still haven’t figured out how to use the other gestures.
4. Gigabit network jack, and b/g/n wireless built in.
5. I paid just over 300 bucks which was the reason I got it. It was on special at flys so it was hard to ignore it. So I got this for my dad to use since the old dell died. I also didn’t want to spend more than this on a laptop now after I spent over 2k for my old sony years ago.

These are just the main 3 positive points I can think of at the moment but I’ll update later. The rest of the hardware seems to work well.

Cons
1. The battery only shows 3 hours. I have it unplugged right now and now it shows 2 hours after about 20 minutes. So this is a big downer if you need to travel.
2. This one has no bluetooth, usb 3.0, or finger reader. I love the finger reader on my sony because I don’t have to keep typing the login all the time, but I will not buy another sony again due to their proprietary downloads. Makes it hell trying to keep it updated and they never update anything either.
3. Windows home not pro, but I know it would add more to the price, so just a preference.
4. Weights more than a Toshiba I bought for someone else with the same size screen. Love that light weight on that Toshiba but only had 4 megs maximum.
5. The one other thing that really drives me crazy and that I am not a fan of are the chiclet keyboards. But I’ll coin this one today too…this model comes with a mushroom chiclet type of keyboard. Basically each key looks like it stands by itself, and each one is flat. Personally I hate flat keys, I prefer the dented or concave keys so you can actually feel where the key is. I don’t know why they keep doing this, but I just thought I point this out because this is why I still prefer to use my desktop over my laptops. So I only use them when I really have to go somewhere.

I only give it 3 stars due to the battery time. One of the most important parts of any laptop, but take that aside and the laptop hardware is pretty good. So even with the cons I would still get one again if I had to, at the lower price that is. As someone else mentioned, technology moves so fast, it’s not worth putting more than I need to on these things.

Other
Just uninstall the trial Microsoft office, download Libreoffice and you got an office suite, add your printer and you’re good to go.
I have also updated everything on the os and changed the shutdown button to lock, but when I hit the power button, the darn laptop still shutsdown. I accidentally hit the power button on the left corner and shut it down. So yes, I rather these buttons be farther in or middle to prevent accidental power offs. I also don’t care for the plug on either side, I like them behind the laptop, but it is what it is. At least this one is near the rear corner and not in the middle like the asus laptop they had on special today.
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Update…the power option for the button is under the battery settings, so it can be changed to lock instead of power off in case you hit the power button accidentaly. So this took care of this problem for me.

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