A large drawn netbook whose battery has not increased with

Let's make no mistake about it, in the price category and size manufacturers try as much as possible to save a.
So the question is usually "the savings made at the points that bother me anyway little?".

There are people who want to use their laptops on the road and therefore need a good battery.
First of all: For this notebook is not suitable. Even after 2 hours 3D games is down, the battery from 100% to 5%.
Other people want a silent work they can easily take the necessary. Here, the battery can be neglected.

But we come to the essential:
- Cheap plastic adorns the instrument, you really get the feeling of a netbook.
- Can be found on the left side Kensington Lock, Fan, VGA, LAN, HDMI, 1x USB 3.0, and a 3.5mm headset jack
- On the right side mains socket, DVD burner and 2x USB 2.0
- At the front an SD card slot and 4 LED's (Power, Battery, HDD, WLAN).
- Speakers and various vents are together with the flap for HDD and Ram to find at the bottom.
- In addition to a full keyboard with numeric keypad and a rather large touchpad is only the Power Button still be found.
- The very small power supply is barely warm to the touch and does not cheeping noises as one often has in cheap power supplies.

Pre-installed software:
As usual nowadays the notebook .. therefore usually comes with a bunch of pre-installed software trials.
This can, however, thanks to not uninstall all to slow hard drive rather quickly.
Witzig this: If you are requested from the home screen to select a browser, Firefox is downloading, it is deleted from McAffe Antivirus and the Start screen reports that it can not run the setup, because the file no longer exists.
So before you do anything once uninstall everything Shareware, particularly McAffe, Norton, and Wild Tangent Games.

Private:
The keyboard is spelled pleasant and bearable by the sound amplifier here. With arguably one of the more qualitative (visible) parts on the notebook.
The touchpad is indeed made of cheap plastic, but has a pleasant texturing and works out pretty accurate.
Unfortunately, Acer has decided to hide some of the options of the touchpad. So you have to first change the registry before you can turn Swiping.
Swiping is when one of the left or right touch pad wipes edge to the center. This enabled some Windows 8 features (which are also to enable different).
The problem is that these are activated too easily, if you really want to move only the mouse.
Who wants to change this setting opens regedit.exe (from the Start menu search) and navigates to this path:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER-> Software-> Elantech-> SmartPadDisplay
Here each value to 1., then you can see all the touchpad options.

Who also how I found the new home screen cruel, can return to the Classic Shell program back to more usual comfort back.

Hardware & performance:
The notebook comes with a 1TB hard drive that works quite fast for the price category. Kingston 4GB Ram are in the small dual core system is more than adequate. Who needs more can still occupy another slot under the flap at the bottom.
The Radeon graphics card is sufficient for less grafiklastige games. I Trine 2 and Serious Sam HD tried, it was playable. For office, internet and video performance was good enough.
Here, the notebook is barely audible even under load.
For that the Speaker is installed at the bottom and are directed downwards is sounded halfway akzeptabel..aber even if one sets up the unit on a hard, smooth surface.

Conclusion:
It depends on what you expect .. Pro / Con:
- Very small battery .. for 2 hours under load are pathetic.
- Fairly low resolution for such a large display .. but not overly interfere with Office & Internet. Only with games and movies.
- For the price category a fast hard disk
- Power sufficient for light to medium-consuming games
- Sufficient Ram .. more power to the other components makes no sense.
- Good keyboard and touchpad
- Legal lightweight.
- Sub-optimal speaker positioning.