Acer AS8730-6951 18.4-Inch Laptop
 List Price: $1,199.99 |
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Filled up WITH FEATURES SHORT ON CUSTOMER SUPPORTGot a huge price. Huge screen, lots of new features like fingerprint id, & bluetooth for the phone. Not nuts about the touch pad or keyboard.
THIS MODEL CAME WITH WINDOWS VISTA. At the stretch they offered free upgrade to Windows 7. Cool but neglect doing any help with features like fingerprint ID that didn't work correctly. Any software troubles, including Acers, cost $59 1/2 hour to talk to expert. I'm sure you spend lots of time on hold too. Needless to say I never handled the egress.
Captivating and powerful without being monstrous!
"We bought this as a desktop replacement and I have been absolutely pleasantly surprised with the quality of the system. Out of the box it is not as big as I was expecting it to be - it's quite a slim system and is effortlessly to carry around the home. The pictures make it look like it is a bit lacking in rage, but I think it is a classy look without trying to overdo the glossy attitude.
As far as performance goes, I cannot fault this system. Windows 7 (free upgrade) masses and operates well and I haven't experienced any slow moments. The twin HDDs are immense - 2 x 140gb discs for your own files, and then Acer stores the system/restore files on a pull partition.
Screen is bright and glossy, but amazingly compared to my old glassy screened laptop I can use this one outside without any issues at all. When looking at photos, the viewing standpoint can be a bit temperamental but I couldn't see that as a reason to take any stars off this rating.
The keyboard is monstrous, very easy to use with good bounce back and not at all noisy... although it always takes a while to get acquainted with to the positioning of some lesser used keys.
I don't mind the touchpad not being centred in the midriff of the laptop - they've actually put it in the middle of the alphanumeric keyboard, and considered the army key pad to be an add on. The touchpad is smooth and easy to use, and I just installed Synaptics latest drivers which are consummate fun for the finger flick browsing and zoom in out motions etc.
I don't go out using the freestyle much, but doing lots of web browsing on wireless gave me over 4 hours of freestyle time which I am very happy with!
Cannot fault this system at all, and at the time the $787 price tag was justified too ridiculous to say no to (WHY WAS IT SO LOW, who knows, but I'm glad it was!)"
acer 8730-6951
I am very cock-a-hoop with this acer product Acer has been quite prompt in providing the window 7 upgrade.Everything works very well. The only obsession that is a drawback is dividing the harddisk into two C & D. But overall it is an excellent laptop.
Reduce RUNNING MACHINE WITH CRAPPY OS WITH VISTA
I had purchased an Acer 15" AMD Athlon more rapidly this year to replace my Dell Vostro that over heated and shut down to often. I was very impressed by the 8 hr battery-operated and how cool it ran. I figured the Toshiba satellite would be even better with the Intell processor and Toshiba nobility. I replaced th Acer. My toshiba kicked the AMD on windows performance score but overheated. I sold it the espouse month I had it and went and reviewed the Acer brand again. This model had the Intel processor and 4 gig ram etc. I loved the feature for it ran well a few pauses etc this week. Today it would not boot tried various recapture techniques. None worked so far. I dont like buying a computer that does not have OS on CD or DVD etc. so I am opposing I will try another and see what happens.
Nice laptop and easily upgraded with FREE Windows 7 upgrade
The power supply reason for purchasing this laptop is due to the price in comparison to the size of the shroud. To be fair it does not disappoint.
The only gripe (as with dell and every other manufacturer), they fill the laptop with lots of software that you don't want, and make it hard to get rid of it.
Luckily all that was solved with an upgrade to Windows 7. With the unattached upgrade Acer provided all the drivers to ensure all the hardware worked justly. This luckily got rid of all the pre-loaded software. Well done Acer!
If you buy an Acer with Windows Vista from June 26, 2009 to January 31, 2010 can get a unasked for upgrade to Windows 7. They say it is free, but still charge $20 P&P. Still improve than buying it outright.
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In summary, buy the laptop then order your free Windows 7 upgrade to get rid of all the infuriating the software. You've then got a great laptop which is ready to go.
