Pros: Good laptop

Cons: Wish idiots would learn how to speak and spell english... this is america not mexico...

Pros: People tend to drastically exaggerate the boot-time (I didn't do any actual timings of it, but there's no way it's 3 minutes as some have claimed)
Very slim+sleek look and feel to it, it's very light (compared to my old gaming laptop that weight almost twice as much)
Backlit keyboard is a nice touch
Great specs for the price

Cons: Configuring this laptop is, as others have mentioned, ridiculous. It's possible but compared to other laptop designs, it's absurd. In order to make any additions or adjustments to the actual components you literally need to remove the keyboard which can seem flimsy and is scary when you consider the alternative which most just have you remove a panel from the bottom. (This is basically the only thing keeping it from 5 eggs)
As with most pre-installed computers, it has a ton of bloatware but that can be handled with a fresh-install

Other Thoughts: If you're looking for a portal gaming device, this will easily be the best one for the price range it's in (Look for it on sale, it's originally listed at 999, but it can go as low as the lower 700's if you're lucky and at that price it's ridiculous value)

Given the opportunity, I would very likely buy this same product again.

Pros: Good speaker..nice design

Cons: It slow and sometime stop working when in game...getting hot when play game in a hour...battery only have 3 hours...with laptop i think i can play dota 2 very good but it doesnt like i think...it doesnt smooth.... dont buy this one...all of things i wanna now is refund it...may be i have to pay 15% of orginal price..it make me still not decided...

Pros: Number one thing I noticed about this laptop are the speakers, very loud. So if you're trying to have something you can bump some music through while having a few friends over these speakers will get the job done.

The obvious
- i7
- Nvidia 960m

Great value gaming laptop.

Also the rear facing exhaust fan is an extremely smart touch.
And finally the metal accent is very discrete and cool looking.

Cons: Touchpad is pretty much unusable. Randomly stops working while using. Will mistakenly register taps. Done a lot of research regarding this problem and nothing has solved the issue.

Pros: The specs that come with this laptop and at this price are unbeatable. I'm able to run all my games at max or high settings and get over 60fps. I've never had a chiclet keyboard before and this keyboard was very easy to get used to. The touch pad is very responsive and sensitive which I prefer to use while I am browsing the web. The build quality is solid, and the speakers can be VERY loud (they claim to have 4 speakers build in this thing). In conclusion, I bought this laptop to play games which it does with ease. I'm very casual so I just plug in my one mouse and I'm good to go. Some people also claim the laptop to run hot which is true in some ways. While playing full load the middle of the keyboard near the (iopkl;m,.) keys get warm and the top of the laptop gets VERY warm where the fans and heatpipes are located (luckily we have no reason to put our hands there). Other than that, the WASD keyboard area and the entire rest of the laptop stays cool while the touch pad stays COLD. The cooling in my opinion is handled very well. Overall it's thin, lightweight, and powerful and I give it two big thumbs up.

Cons: -The fans can get pretty loud during gaming but it needs to cool this thing laptop down. This has never bothered me but it might bother you.
-My left fan has some noticeable scratching noise (which hasn't affected cooling or performance so far) but it can cause some concerns. While it spins maybe it rubs against the bottom of the laptop case or something.
-The arrow keys on the keyboard feel very mushy compared to the rest of the laptop which feels clicky.
-The left hinge cover on my laptop makes a lot of clicking noises (which bothers me in some way but doesn't seem to have any functional problems or cause damage). Whenever I open the laptop it clicks a bit and especially when I close the laptop it clicks a lot. If i push on the left hinge cover it squeaks and moves while the right one is completely solid. Again, it doesn't feel like it is going to break and it feels solid but the squeaks and clicks are audible.

Other Thoughts: I don't play very graphic intensive games but here is the list of games that I tried.
-Starcraft 2 Maxed out (about 110 fps)
-Diablo 3 Maxed out (idk, runs smooth like butter though)
-Tera Online Maxed out (Some lag spikes during loading a big city or town but other than that it runs good. Might need to put in high)
-Minecraft (Obviously this runs no problem but what surprised me was that it was smooth even with the unbelievable shader mods. Chunks had to be set to 16 chunks though)
-Black ops 2 Maxed Out (No problems)
-Call of Duty Ghosts High Settings (I only tried high settings and it ran smooth. Didn't bother to try maxed because this game is horrible and badly optimized)
-Garry's Mod Maxed Out (No problems)
-Trove Maxed out( No problems)
ONE MORE NOTE: My Nvidia GTX 960m was not working until I restarted my laptop after first boot. Make sure you get all your updates done and everything set up and restart your laptop. Good stuff.

Pros: 5 stars!

Cons: No cons for me.

Pros: Large screen compared to the 14" from the old laptop
High resolution, and DPI making it a very clear and bright screen
Dedicated graphics card is very fast for the price.
Lighted keyboard makes working in the dark easier.

Cons: Does get excessively hot when in games, but can be circumvented by using a USB laptop cooler.
Comes with alot of bloatware and needless applications that need to be uninstalled
Did not come

Other Thoughts: Definitely would get another for myself if I really wanted a gaming laptop.
A good price for a powerful machine.

Pros: This laptop was very good straight out the box, It booted somewhat quick, had good memory and games played with no issues, both Diablo 3, League of Legends and World of Warcraft all played on highest video settings with no issues. Great Price for the laptop and does everything I would want and more.

The ram was only 8gb, my laptop was a single stick of 8 so I bought an additional 8 to pair with it so it now has 16 and its noticeably quicker and smoother getting in and out of things.

The large 1tb hdd was okay, not fast not horribly slow. I took advantage of the m.2 slot and put a mushkin ssd in the slot. The computer now boots under 10 seconds and has no issues.

All in all a great laptop and worth the money.

Cons: The laptop when gaming runs hot, I mean hot!!!!! but I use it with a cooling pad and when that is done it runs smooth with no issues so I wouldnt be turned away from that. Just know it will get hot!

The 4 speakers sound great, they are downward facing which is a bit different but the sound and quality make up for that placement.

Even with those two cons it is still a fantastic laptop. Acer has really outdone themselves. Sexy, Sleek and powerful. All you could ask for it a budget gaming laptop! Well done!

Pros: To start off this is a great laptop for its price. At the time of purchased it was $779. Powerful 4 cores i7 with hyperthreading. Comes with 8 gigs of ram, 1TB hard drive. The 960m is also pretty decent, I don't play any demanding games on this laptop because I have my main rig for that. But the 960m is able to max out any game before 2015 with high/ultra settings. I upgraded the ram to 16 gig and replaced the hard drive with 850 evo ssd now the laptop boots up in about 5 secs. The upgrades really help the laptop to perform at it's full potential.

Cons: The hard drive is really slow, took over a min to boot up. Once replaced with an ssd, the laptop become super snappy and fast.
Upgrading this device is a pain, you have to remove the keyboard, unplug decent amount of wires and have to left the motherboard up to access the ram. Not beginner friendly at all, but don't let it scare you. Its doable.
Another con i experienced with this laptop is heat, this laptop tends to run into a lot of thermal throttling with cause the gpu and cpu to run at a lower speed to reduce heat output which has a big impact on the performance.

Other Thoughts: Overall I would still recommend this laptop to others, Its decently priced (Not over 1000 like others 960m), fairly light, easy to use and pretty powerful. You just need to replace the slow hard drive.

Pros: -The Core i7 processor is fast for a 4th generation model; with 4 physical cores and 8 virtual cores. clocks from 2.5ghz up to 3.6ghz
-Geforce 960M is great , it can play games released in early 2015 and back on max settings.Newer titles might need some tweaking by reducing ambient occlusion, antialiasing, postprocessing and shadow quality.it's a great gpu that is more efficient than its elder brother the 860m by as much as 10% .The 860m has 1152 cuda cores vs 640 cores for the 960m, that is a 48% reduction in cores but the 960m is still quicker by 10%.I have tested crysis 3,max payne 3, metro last light,tomb raider,bioshock infinite,.They all run great.
-The laptop is slim and very light for a gaming laptop.
-The sound is great even though the speaker are on the bottom of the laptop.When I tested the sound , initially i thought it was low.You will need to turn on the dolby theatre sound app which comes "off" by default to unleash the speakers potential.The sound is just amazing now with the dolby app turned on and even at 50% it is very loud and the fact you don't see the speakers on is a great effect.

Cons: -Display, Like i said in my title, the specs are misleading.If you are looking for a laptop with an IPS display and great viewing angles,i am sorry this isnt it. Even though the specs on the site claims to be an IPS display for this laptop.The display is actually a TN display model Innolux n156HGE which is not very good.The viewing angles are very poor with bad color washouts.If you are really good at upgrading you can easily swap it out for a real IPS display.I wasn't happy when i discovered it wasn't an IPS display.
-Hard drive is slow but not crawling slow, if you install the latest version of windows released in October and remove the acer pre-installed bloatware it helps to speed things up.
-fans can get loud during heavy gaming.

Other Thoughts: In conclusion, i will recommend this laptop if you are looking for a gaming machine.The faults I mentioned can be easily corrected and you will have a great little powerhouse.The non-IPS display is not a real deal breaker and you might not notice in gaming but if you are surfing websites or doing photo editing , the bad screen quality is quite obvious.The only color that looks good is red everything else is not accurate.