Question 1

Does it comes with a charger?

Accepted Answer

Yes. It also comes with a laptop pouch. (Not a carrying case, just a nice Acer pouch to hold it in.

Question 2

Does this laptop have like a place to connect coaxial cable to?

Accepted Answer

There is no place/port to connect a coaxial cable to this laptop. That is not a feature that I've ever seen on a laptop. There IS a place to connect an Ethernet cable to, though! You may be able to get an adapter online.

Question 3

What hard drive type should I use to upgrade hard drive? I have been looking but can't seem to find form factor information on if there is an open slot to add an SSD I just would like to know what type of hard drive can be installed to it?

Accepted Answer

There are actually TWO slots inside; The 2.5" slot, and there's also an M.2 form factor SSD slot. I'm currently dual booting two versions of Windows, one on each hard drive.

Question 4

How is the battery life on this?

Accepted Answer

I haven't timed it, but in my experience a few hours of game playing. It's pretty short. It just stays plugged in during usage at our house which is fine for us because for the performance it really is a bargain. But the battery life is pretty short.

Question 5

Anyone who owns this have issues with windows 10 updates? They killed my last laptop.

Accepted Answer

That's the very reason I bought this laptop. This one is way more stable and less prone to the whims of the Microsoft engineers.
BTW my son was able to bring my old one back alive. Don't throw your old one away. Find a computer nerd friend like him to fix it.

Question 6

Does this laptop have bluetooth?

Accepted Answer

It does have Bluetooth! I have wireless JBL E-Series headphone I connect to mine with! Works like a charm.

Question 7

Can you turn off the Backlit Keyboard?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Fn + F9 turns off the backlight.

Question 8

Do you think this laptop can support rust with medium settings?

Accepted Answer

I can play ARMA 3 and any other game on ultra settings with no fps drop as long as you don't have unnecessary amount of things running at the same time. I usually log on and play without having to tweak anything on window-wise except turning off  some apps I don't use.

Question 9

Looks like the Windows 10 April 2018 update breaks the keyboard driver for this laptop.  Anyone found a way around this?

Accepted Answer

I have the latest updates and i had 0 issues with it   shut down down restarted all good/ unplug and replug the power plug  might just be stuck

Question 10

I am looking to purchase a cooling pad for this laptop, and wondering what the airflow direction is?  Is it a discharge at the back?

Accepted Answer

It is a rear exit, I believe it’s the right side of the laptop. Currently at work and don’t have it with me, I’ll send an update when I get home in a few hours.

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