But already at the first start of the notebook I was negatively surprised. The keyboard is of poor quality and the further south you come to the rows of letters, the more it rattles and the cheaper affects processing. The same then also applies to the touch pad, which sometimes will react only slowly to the control tests, but then again the mouse pointer leaves swirling erratically on the monitor without a true contact has occurred.
The first start-up takes a long time, because Windows has to be configured only once 8. After the start goes pretty fast, despite rather low power processor and relatively low existing memory. Windows starts here in Classic View, including Windows taskbar.
For initial setup, a lot is to uninstall unnecessary software - the computer is a almost like a advertising medium, and less like a work unit. Uninstalling is then also positive effect on the boot process.
After the device is really ready, approximately 1 1/2 hours have passed. Then as well as WLAN access are configured and new browser and email client installed and functional.
In operation, the device is pleasantly fast on the road - as long as you renounced to launch multiple applications in parallel.
The view of videos, playing music or displaying PDFs and other ebook formats is working properly. The presentation is really good even with moving images. Due to the rather small size of PDFs magazines in DINA4 format and more of course, a bit exhausting, because only about 50% of the side length will fit on the screen and much scrolling is necessary. Epub or Mobi files may be well presented and readable by means of a software like Calibre.
Compared to my Google Chromebook, which is almost identical in price, the Acer Aspire ES1-311-C96C smears from pretty. The only advantage here: the touchpad has a separate right mouse button, which will try my Chromebook more bad than good by double-simulate. Of course, Acer must save something, fall for Windows corresponding royalties to 8, but it must then be calculated the keyboard where this but for a device that can hardly serve as a gaming platform, probably the part most commonly used? I use the device primarily as a writer on the go - and here more quality would have been appropriate even in an otherwise still quite reasonable price of 300.
The battery life is good by the way - it appears initially at around 5.5 hours, the power keeps actually over 4 hours a simple operation (a little surfing, much tap) stand. When text entry device for several lectures or a train ride with RE trains so well enough. As has become usual in this market segment, the battery is firmly installed.
All in all, the device leaves me with mixed feelings. Really happy I am not, because despite decent runtime and operating speed processing can be at most called satisfactory. The high number of useless programs at system boot or apps, as they are now known as Windows 8 - annoying.
Who device is at a price of around 300 on a Windows, makes the Acer Aspire ES1-311-C96C not all wrong. But perhaps you should consider changing the system into consideration also times when Android devices also keep better hardware.
