Pros: 6-10hrs batt life, plenty fast for anything of non multimedia nature. Can make 2GHz stable(though it doesn't shut down well). Win7 Starter(I'll explain why in other thoughts). As a school only machine I can't see a fault with it. So parents looking to make sure their kid is only capable of doing papers or school work and save money on a machine; this is the ticket. It even has a program for website blocking. Overall, great as a work machine.

Cons: Preloaded junk is unbearable for the most part. You only need to keep the Super Hybrid Engine software, Live Update and a few other ASUS programs as they're useful and have a small footprint. No real way to back up the system for a default reboot if you needed too. Finally, there is the great slap to the face feeling when you buy this model and they release one with the Broadcom chip(For HD playback) a week later, but oh well.

Overall Review: Win7 Starter has turned out better than I thought, the reasons are simple, it is striped of A LOT of useless code that exist in the other versions. I don't know why anyone would want to put another version on here as Win7 Pro on my laptop with 4GBs of RAM uses between .8-1GB at idle with many services disabled. And on here, it was just to slow for me to bother keeping(idled at 50% CPU usage). So if you want something else besides starter, look at EEEbuntu, SLAX(this is an epic linux which can run entirely from RAM), UNR or something else.

Pros: Works out of the box, jumper free BIOS, excellent placement of the SATA connectors(why don't all boards put the SATA connectors away from the PCIE slots where your massive GPU will go?). If you don't overclock its good. When you plug in a GPU it automatically sets it to being the first display device (hurray for not having to change things manually for that). I'm tempted to give it a 1 but to be fair, it's failures to do things beyond what is stated aren't it's problem so it gets an OK 3 for being what it is and nothing more.

Cons: LLC this used to be just a problem with Intel boards but it's here and it's horrible. Further, this board has the worst voltage fluctuations ever if you set them yourself. RAM should be compatible but even at the RAM's rated speeds this board doesn't get along well. And there's billions of RAM settings for some reason. Plus it magically took 1MB from my RAM and decided not to give it back. Things that you don't know in the BIOS are either skipped or not explained in the manual. This is what LLC does (example when trying to OC to 3.6GHz with an x4 640): set 1.5 in BIOS for CPU voltage LLC at 100%: 1.5 idle voltage; 1.3 from p95 load and crash after one minute LLC at Auto/51%: 1.5 idle voltage; 1.41 under stress no crash after 10mins LLC at 0%/off: 1.5 idle voltage; 1.57 under stress no crash but canceled p95 because exceeding safe voltage occurred. With default settings my 1.33 default CPU Idles at 1.3 and hits 1.38 at load.

Overall Review: The voltage fluctuations and LLC make it impossible to recommend this as an OCing board. Also, it's a little much for something not capable of OCing and too much for a general user's needs unless they really want the onboard GPU.

Pros: Boot is fast. No way to complain about a 2 second to LightDM for login and 2 second for Kubuntu to fully load. My old WD Caviar Black from 2008 took 20 total in it's best time and mostly took 30+. No noise, less heat, less power usage. Most file movements don't even get to estimating time as they finish before that. 3 year warranty is great considering most HDDs are going 1 year or less.

Cons: Wondering what happened to the 503 firmware update as their site tells me there isn't one anymore so I'm hoping that the 502 firmware mine came with will be OK. Having to stick with SATA2 limits from my mobo holding this drive back. 3k rated life for their MLC (which as others point out is still for more than a consumer should worry about). Sandforce, I know they're past those dark early days...but I still worry about the controller being a problem. Worrying about alignments and TRIM. TRIM was easy to set in Linux but the whole alignment thing is still confusing and not easy to know if set up right or not in Linux. Wish they made their toolbox thing work with Linux but I can't expect too much can I? The mounting bracket doesn't work well with my HAF912 case and the screwless setup but with the case's included 2.5" to 3.5" bracket adapter things worked out. Just with I had another for my 2nd HyperX as it is sitting in the box until I find some way to get it in. Programs didn't seem to load too much faster...maybe 1-4 seconds tops but that might have to do more with Linux being better at preloading than I thought.

Overall Review: Even 3k MLC is fine since some are moving onto TLC (like in flash drives or Samsung's 840 non-pro models) it's not so much what the nand is rated for in P/Es as much as how well the controller can manage the writes/erases; whether the drive is aligned (helps with limiting writes WIN7/8 should do this for you IIRC), and TRIM (again WIN7/8 should do this for you). Well, I'll post back if things go south. Until then this was 64 (120 total for the 2 I got) bucks well spent.

Pros: Fastest $400 laptop most people have ever encountered even in the pathetic OEM Windows image crippled with bloatware. Works really well with Gnu/Linux (dig around another reviewer on here posted how to get backlight controls working as that was the only minor issue) where it's even faster than with Windows. 4.5lbs is better than the 6.5/7lbs my old G50VT-X5 was.

Cons: Has the defective ports problem as it confirmed by Acer (on their website). Crossing my fingers that they didn't somehow use the effected ports (2-5 as mentioned on their website). Time will tell on that. Battery is going to wear out fast because you really can't remove it to avoid the two worse things for a battery...heat exposure and charging cycles. All of those don't worry me as much though as my left screen to chassis hinge bending slightly outwards all of the sudden. Not sure what is up with that (heat warping?) but I don't have the luxury of sending it in right now as I'm a student and this is my only school machine. Again crossing finger it will last at least until winter break or longer.

Overall Review: At $400 this thing is still excellent. There's just always risks when you purchase from "the bottom of the bin" so if you get this just make sure you've got some kind of back ups (that goes for any computer really). Shouldn't be a problem but it is there.

Pros: Good quality output and decent mic and webcam combo setup. For the basic skype user crowd I can't think of much that is in the price range that comes close but I didn't look to hard.

Cons: Thing seems to turn off every 5mins or less when I'm on skype and I don't know why or how to stop it. It was really frustrating but I'm kind of used to it now. I'm going to check and see if I missed something during the install but this should be noted as unacceptable performance.

Overall Review: Hoping that I'm the only suffering this little problem.

Pros: The size is almost a perfect balance all around. I'm rather pleased with how easy it is to type on this keyboard without too much problems or too much fatigue.

Cons: Like everyone else has stated this is one of the loudest keyboards I've encountered. But, I honestly don't care because it's not really all that loud anyway.

Overall Review: The only part of this thing that I question in build quality are the two legs for it. They seem so flimsy yet they don't flex when I'm typing. All in all, for $20 and even 25 this keyboard was tough to beat. Definitely a recommendation with one reminder. Every keyboard does take a little while to adjust to. For me it was one day with this thing.