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(More customer reviews)My Acer AS7741-7870 was purchased from Amazon was delivered at noon yesterday October 30th. We ordered it on late Thursday with next day shipping by FedX. We had ordered a similar model (the AS7745-5632) from Wal-mart, using their site to store shipping. It came in on time but DOA...would NOT turn on '. We had mentally "geared up" to the new computer and the work that's involved in switching, which is why we did a direct shipment using Amazon the 2nd time out.
I'm a moderately experienced PC computer user. I've had a blog for the last several years, have designed and implemented the local Town website, and currently do the websites for our local Parish and two camping clubs. The computer this new Acer is replacing is a Toshiba notebook that's about four years old...it was designed for Windows XP, but was upgraded to Vista shortly after purchase. That was a pretty basic Satellite but she provided good service over the years.
Regarding the Acer: We spent several hours setting up the various programs I use. Everything worked with the exception of a legacy Daytimer 2000 which didn't surprise me as I think this is a 16 bit program. We had shoe-horned it into running on Vista, but Windows 7 64 bit was having none of it. All other legacy programs to include Adobe Acrobat 6 and NetObjects Fusion installed and work just fine.
This machine was a bit light on included software, but it was also light on bloat-ware so it evened out. I'm very impressed with the keyboard "feel"..it's a pleasure to type on with good tactile feel and response. The "delete" key in front is a tad small and not where I'm used to but it's just a learning curve thing. I'm happy with the visuals, but did notice in running some YouTube video's that they weren't as sharp as I'd hoped they'd be.
The programs load quickly and it seems to have enough horse-power to do anything I'll be doing. That includes the manipulation of some graphics, multiple programs running and uploading to servers for the websites. I'd have preferred it to have some USB ports in the rear of the machine...it has two on each side. It also does not have a volume wheel in the front which I had gotten used to with the Toshiba; you have to use the Volume on your external speakers or up and down arrows on the number pad.
All in all: VERY happy with the machine and with the service from Amazon. For the price ($679.99) it's a lot of computer and I feel a good value for the money.
Robert R. Payette, October 31st, 2010
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