Pros: - Large screen - Keyboard and Touchpad layout - Dedicated ATi Radeon GFX card for gaming - DVD-R/RW - HDMI out - Not much bloatware

Cons: - Low battery life; 1 hour or less if gaming, 2 hours if working on power saving features - Slower hard drive access time

Overall Review: - Great for the price ($600) - I wanted to address some of the concerns below based on my experience: + Overheating: Mine doesn't overheat at all. Temperatures are monitored with a program called Core Temp. When gaming with the laptop on my lap temperatures are below 60f. + Lid: Yes, the lid does feel a little flimsy. + Accessing network folders & Windows Autoplay ?: This has nothing to do with the laptop, it's a configuration issue with Windows. + BSOD's: I haven't had one BSOD since purchase (few months ago). - The GFX card is decent for gaming. I am able to play WoW at 1600x900 and almost all settings on Ultra except water, sun shafts and shadows, all set to low (non-essential imo). This gets 30fps majority of the time and I'm definitely able to raid and run instances without freezes or DC's. CoD: Blackops plays perfectly though I'm not so familiar with what resolution/settings. Overall I love it, great for gaming and HDMI out (movies) at friends and families.

Pros: I am very impressed with this notebook. I have an Acer netbook, and an Acer Monitor, both great products; so I was expecting this notebook to be just as nice. Well, it is. The screen is very bright and crisp. There is a nice amount of RAM. The HDMI out is a very nice plus. It has everything I need and more.

Cons: The battery life is not the best. But it is a 6 Cell battery so... And it is pretty heavy.

Overall Review: I am happy with my purchase and as always with Newegg's service.

Pros: 17.3 screen....... and that's just about it.

Cons: BSOD, always and forever.

Overall Review: Sent back to Acer, they didn't fix it. All they want me to do is restore to factory settings. That is Acer's answer for everything. I'm not an engineer, but I'm here to tell you, you can't use a computer that you are always restoring to factory settings. I rated it a 1 because there isn't a 0.

Pros: This laptop is quite amazing. Sleak, sturdy and efficient cooling. It has a pretty nice video card. When I got it I upgraded the HDD to a 7200RPM and put 8GB of RAM in it. It plays WoW fairly well. Can't run max settings though since the last patch switched WoW to DX11.

Cons: If laptop is resting on your legs the intake for the fan is where your left leg would be, not a huge deal. That's really my only complaint! I love this laptop!

Pros: Affordable. Big screen. These HD graphics were good in their time but AMD's new APUs are better.

Cons: Plastic case. M-Sata doesn't appear to function (tried with a couple devices). My screen has a dead pixel after a year, and there is a piece of what appears to be black plastic embedded just behind the glass on the screen. It is no longer under warranty and Acer is unwilling to work with me on it. Overseas tech support. Low battery life. A movie can be watched and that's about it. It would be nice to see more 12 cell batteries in laptops. Slow hard drive, replaced with a solid state disk which uses even less energy and makes boot times a lot better.

Overall Review: I would not purchase this again simply due to the screen issue. I'm think I'm done with Acer. Moving on.

Pros: Specs are nice.

Cons: BSOD 3 times within 10 hours of using it. BSOD while doing an expense report! Final straw. I called to replace it and WOW go figure, newegg is no longer carrying the it, which I bought literally less than 2 weeks. So Newegg gave me store credit. That is totally fine with me. Imgoing to spend a bit more and NOT buy Aceragain.

Overall Review: I will never buy Acer again. Let the fools at Walmart buy them.

Pros: Screen Size(17.3) Dedicated Video card (1 Gig) Keyboard Decent multi-touch trackpad Decent Webcam Good Amount of RAM HDD size (500 gig) Tricore processor in a Distributions very well.

Cons: Lower End DDR3 RAM (1066Mhz) Viewing Angles Hard Drive read speed (5400 RPM) Bit Interface for Video card is (128-bit) Short on the battery life

Overall Review: Lets just get right to it if you are in the market for a decent laptop to use as a DRL (Desktop Replacement Laptop). You wont find much in the price range this is at. Especially one with a 1 gig dedicated card of DDR3, and a tricore Processor with a decent per core clock speed. Like every piece of technology, this does have its weaknesses Limited battery life, screen viewing angles, Some might consider the 128-bit card and 5400 rpm HDD the system bottlenecks if top performance is your concern, then you may want to upgrade the RAM, and HDD.

Pros: Price - specs on paper are extremely good for the price it's at, or was at when I bought it ($600). Big screen, looks good, I find the speakers to be fine as opposed to some people who were complaining about them. Plays WoW at high & ultra settings with reasonable frame rates...

Cons: Browsing network folders is a crapshoot - frequently have to retry a few times to actually get the listing of those folders. No other machine on the network, or that I've ever seen, has such problems. Also, it regularly freezes up for no reason, with a duration of 1-5 seconds...whether just browsing the web or playing a game. Those two issues effectively make the machine unusable - it's so annoying to use that you just simply walk away from it. It also runs very hot...clearly the cooling system is not up to the task for this CPU and VPU. I propped up the back of the machine to try to allow for better airflow, but the heat is still very high. Not sure if the problems are heat related or not...if they only happened during gaming I would say so, but they occur when doing not much of anything as well. Propping up the back of the machine actually had no noticeable effect on any of the issues. Would be nice if the case was a bit more rigid...I don't like feeling the lid flex...

Overall Review: I have just asked for an RMA to return this for a replacement. If I can get a replacement that works without these issues, I'll be very happy. However, apparently I didn't realize at the time of ordering that Newegg appears to officially exempt themselves from having to offer RMAs for computers...you have to kind of "petition" them to get RMA authorization. Let's just say that I am going to be very passionately displeased if there is not a quick and reasonable solution made available for my predicament.