Acer Laptop AMD A8-Series A8-7100 (1.80GHz) 6GB Memory 1TB HDD AMD Radeon R5 Series 15.6" Windows 8.1 64-Bit E5-551-89TN

Pros: Price was a steal, got it for $350. 6GB of RAM is awesome, most laptops only have 4. The keyboard is very nice, and includes numeric keypad. Battery life is good, about 6-7 hours, but that can get cut to around 3 under load. The processor and graphics preform admirably: can run some somewhat old games at full settings, newer games at pretty good settings, as well as adobe programs without a hitch. The display is great for the price. Windows 8.1 is a little annoying, but I got used to it pretty quickly, now I think it's fine. The wi-fi is perfectly fine (though only 2.4 GHz), and it has bluetooth! Looks really nice, it's all matte black except for the acer logo on the back, which is shiny silver. Good size, not much wasted space around the keyboard and display. Good weight, not too heavy. Finally, the sticker with the product information comes off easily without leaving a bunch of gunk.

Cons: The trackpad is annoying, but I got used to it. However, the right click is sill hard to preform. I would recommend buying a mouse--a bluetooth one wouldn't take up a port. This is just me, but I don't really like how there is a gap between the screen and the body where it is not connected. Here the plastic frame can be pushed in a little bit, separating from the display. The exhaust port gets hot under load, but it's not bad at all. Quite a bit of bloatware from acer, but easy to get rid of.

Overall Review: Not many: I have been using it the last few weeks at school, it has been great. The battery will usually last the whole day, and it easily runs office and the adobe suite, as well as some games. Additionally, the keyboard is good for word processing and coding.

Pros: First pro is the price, for the hardware you get in this it is really a bargain in my opinion. The CPU is quad core and lets me multitask without lag. Graphically the R5 iGPU is fast enough to run some newer games on their lowest settings without dropping below 30fps. Battery life is above average and is about 6-7 hours if you are just reading and doing office stuff, it gets cut in half if you are watching video's or gaming.

Cons: Painfully slow hard drive, Id much rather have less space and a faster drive. Quite a bit of bloatware. BIOS update needed if you wish to upgrade the graphics drivers to the latest AMD driver.

Overall Review: I recommend upgrading this laptop with an SSD drive which I will be doing, also be aware that for some reason trying to run gpu-z would almost always freeze the computer completely forcing me to reset it.

Pros: Great Laptop for the money. AMD's New Kaveri Quad core CPU 6 GB Memory where most others only come with 4GB Large HD for this class of computer The screen is good Relatively light weight for a 15.6" laptop. Dedicated numeric keypad

Cons: Nothing here would cause me to deduct from my overall rating: Ram: 4GB x1 + 2GB x1 probably not ideal dual channel solution. Glossy plastic is a smudge magnet Construction could be a little more sturdy Little to no documentation

Overall Review: This laptop was purchased to replace my wife's old Gateway Turion powered laptop. Great for browsing, word, etc. Have not tried gaming just yet. I wish they made a more upscale model with an SSD and 8+ GB memory. I will have to make those upgrades myself which will definitely enhance the overall performance of the machine. ** Make sure you update the BIOS before updating to newest video drivers. Otherwise your graphics will freeze when booting into Windows. BIOS notes show there was a problem that new BIOS fixed. ** There is NO optical drive. This was not an issue for me and figured it would also cut down on weight and price a little bit. For as often as we used it on our old laptop it won't be missed.

Pros: The price is low. Light weight. Tons of drive space. Sleek look. Screen size and look is awesome.

Cons: Runs a tad warm on the bottom but its AMD so that's to be expected. WINDOWS 8 is pure junk but oh well you deal with it.

Overall Review: I paid well under 400 bucks and it does everything I need. Sure I hate windows 8 but not enough to dock an egg and basically use this for weekends at work or when I am traveling. Seems durable even tho it is light and I love the black metal housing around the keyboard and pad its just to bad the entire notebook was not done like this. Graphics are pretty sweet as I can run Diablo 3 and WOW with no issues. Over all just surprised I can get a nice looking laptop like this for such a low price. Nice Job ACER I am digging this thing :)

Pros: - The quad-core processor is very fast. - Great price for the powerful processor and slightly more memory than a standard laptop. - Not too much bloatware from Acer. - Good for light gaming, League of Legends runs at 60 fps on low settings. - Also good for college use and programming, keyboard feels very nice in my opinion. - The screen looks great, not terribly glossy. - Simple and minimal laptop. - Acer has a great repair center.

Cons: - Had a small issue with it freezing when I first got it. Acer's awesome repair center fixed this right away.

Overall Review: The plastic surrounding the screen wasn't completely on so there is a small gap between the screen and the plastic on the lower left corner. This hasn't caused any issues however. I use this for college, programming, and light gaming and it's been much better than my previous laptop which was twice the cost.

Pros: Plenty of ram, great cpu for the price, alright for games.

Cons: Tried to install Windows 7 and lost everything. Windows 8 refused to let me downgrade and fought me every step of the way until it acted like it was going to work and now won't even boot a recovery disk of any sort. Please help.

Overall Review: I really love the computer, i'm willing to try anything to fix it.

Pros: bought this last year in October 13, 2014 and i have been playing a lot of games with it like L4D2, League of Legends, Portal 2, and many more so it runs decently

Cons: if you're a gamer and you like to use a laptop that can last a REALLY long time. i suggest not buying this... it burns out depending on how you use it then it'll lag a lot making you unable to play games or even play videos on youtube, took 6 months for it to burn out

Pros: good sound, lightweight

Cons: Application crashes

Overall Review: Stay away from Acer. Bought this as an Xmas gift. the recipient is a light user meaning email, browsing and MS Office apps. right away error messages displayed from an ACER application. I think it was for a file synch but in any case we weren't going to use the feature so i uninstalled it. Now we get intermittent application crashes (iTunes). since we passed the return policy I'll have to deal with Acer or correct issues on my own. I've owned my Toshiba Satellite for years without issue.