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(More customer reviews)We picked one of these up at Fry's Electronics on Sunday Jan 23. We have three laptops but no other netbook experience so it is hard to make comparisons. Also my son-in-law took it with him so I only had a couple of hours to play with it. Given those disclaimers...
It is a nice little netbook and were I looking for a new computer today I'd pick up one of these for myself. It is light, small, and the battery life is pretty good. With three USB ports and an SD card reader it is nicely equipped. The thing that made the sale for us was the 1.3Mp webcam because we want to make Skype video calls with our son-in-law. The video quality was great. The screen is very bright, we actually had to dim it a bit for comfort. The single speaker, located under the front left side, didn't have much volume and was rather "tinny" sounding.
Speed is something I'd find hard to describe. It certainly is slow compared to our other computers, but not something I couldn't live with. Video worked great. I tried a Netflix streaming video and a youtube video; both worked great.
My biggest complaint are the flat faced keys. A little contour would have helped a lot. It would take me some adjustment to type quickly on that keyboard. However the keyboard layout is good. It isn't full sized but not so small as to be a big adjustment. The size would be easy to adapt to. The cursor keys, given the limited space, are well designed.
The track pad worked well, doesn't have the rough surface that so many complain about (why do they do that?), however none of us use a track pad in this family. We all choose to have wireless mice. Having three USB ports is nice because we were able to stick one of those really small mouse receivers in one of the USB slots and leave it there all the time. The track pad mouse buttons are a single bar (why do they do that too?) but that didn't hinder our use of it when we tried it out.
With Windows 7, which I like, starter version installed it doesn't allow the wallpaper to be changed. That drove my son-in-law crazy but he'll have to learn to live with it.
It would be nice if it got 8 or 10 hours on the battery instead of 6 but hey, six hours is double what any of our other laptops achieve!
The lid is a total fingerprint magnet being smooth and shiny (Why do they do that also?)
I went to remove all the bloatware from it for my son-in-law and guess what? There really wasn't any that I wanted to delete. They had preloaded Skype and a few other useful tools that we would have loaded but there wasn't the usual pile of stuff to delete.
In my opinion I think this is a pretty neat little computer for a quite reasonable price.
Jan 27. I called Acer technical support and learned max RAM is 2GB and it is DDR3. The telephone support person didn't yet have detailed information so couldn't tell me how to access the ram (but said it was through the bottom of the computer), nor could he tell me if there was a single RAM slot or two.
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