Pro:
- Performance. Very good. No matter what I run on it, it works. When playing very high details possible applications and multitasking without delays. That is fun :)
- Display. Mattes, lighting and color-strong IPS screen panel with wide viewing angle
- Design, which is a matter of taste
- Thermal Design. In everyday applications + Gaming no CPU throttling. Thermales Throttling only occurs if, for example tortures the GPU with Furmark, while allowing the CPU to calculate Pi
- Volume. Quiet !! A very good fan design without annoying and incomprehensible change between high and low speed of the fan. The fans are duplicated and sometimes it happens that the fan of the GPU is working and resting the fan of the CPU. These things I have observed when playing, if you limit the CPU clock for older games. Even if the CPU and GPU are called correctly, the fans are indeed clearly audible, but it's more of a sonorous noise as an annoying "whistling" as in other notebooks. Under heavy load the fan go without much delay to work, but then if the load no longer exists, to reduce directly the speed again. That's the way it has to be.
- Speakers. Because even a little bass coming out. Four speakers are installed, and at a higher volume of sound does not distort and the playback quality is surprisingly good.
- Keyboard. Little stroke, a short settling-in period until the 10 fingers Writing works again quite accurately and for me. Full succeeded.
Cons:
- Frosted housing paint. Despite careful treatment, most of my equipment see even after years of almost like new, on the edges of the notebook already "flaking" the soft touch surface arose. Whether it is a question here of a design flaw or bad stuff, I can only speculate.
- Touchpad. Mist. Absolute crap. I have quite a few private notebooks may call my own and this touchpad is, by far, the worst that I have ever used. Since I'm not a fan of it anyway and that was me before buying already known, it does not bother me great. I'm using a wireless mouse.
- Slightly uneven illumination of the image panels. Imperceptible at games or on the desktop, with very dark image content perceptible. Unfortunately tarnishes the good overall impression of the notebook.
- Wireless chipset. Gambling if that works well or not. With me at home to connect to the O2 Wlanrouter works fortunately well, whereas this may absolutely not work with a Fritz box with my girlfriend. To solve this, I bought a Micro WLAN stick. The driver from the onboard WLAN has no settings to G or A / B Wifi but always runs on N. If reception is poor you can not therefore switch back to slower speeds.
- Stability housing below the optical drive is not good, is to clear if one lifts the notebook in place.
- Cover display cabling + hinges cheap, hydrocracked sometimes. Fits absolutely not to the rest of the notebook, which "fixed" is genuine quality and a plastic housing.
Acer has done a good step forward with the Aspire series remake. Years ago, were Acer notebooks more classified in the low-price segment. Now I have given the Herstelller a chance and was not disappointed. What Acer should change in the future even little things. The touchpad definitely needs to be changed to something sensible. The choice of material for the soft touch housing needs to be reconsidered, because here is where some long-term durability. The WLAN adapter needs a regular driver or you have to install something from Intel instead of Atheros. If this were implemented, I would correct my vote on 5/5.
With minimal smears you get a notebook with beautiful design, great computing power, a beautiful display and a good fan design. My recommendations.
