Customer Reviews

Acer AS5740-5144 15.6-Inch Laptop (Blue)

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4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(1)
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I've owned this laptop for about a month now, and it's been a fantastic month with it! I own an Acer Aspire One Netbook for school, so when the time came for me to trade in my three year old Durabook laptop for something new, I immediately looked for Acer. Other than the phenomenal price that Amazon offered, it had more features than I ever dreamed I could find in a laptop on a College Student's budget.

The wide HD screen is crystal clear with beautiful graphic properties. I've never seen pictures or videos look better on a laptop screen.

It runs extremely fast, which I knew it would from the beginning but even now after I'm using about 150GB of space it runs just as fast as it did before I installed anything on it.

I love, LOVE the webcam as well, it syncs with my movements very well and I don't need to put all the lights on in my room for the other person to see me. The microphone is pretty decent and I don't need to turn down the TV to be heard clearly.

The touchpad took some getting used to, but now I can't imagine not using it. It makes getting things accomplished much more simpler and quicker.

To sum it up, I would expect to pay twice for a laptop that was as well, awesome as this one. If I had to name a con to it, it was a big pain in the butt uninstalling a lot of the pre-installed programs, but that's about it. GREAT BUY!

this laptop is fast, has all programs i need plus more...extremely fast shipping from amazon. light weight, just an excellent laptop....I highly recommend. it does take some getting use to because of the numbers pad to the right of the key board but once you shift your hands over correctly on the board it seems alright.... go get it!

I have the model Aspire 5738Z, and it is excellent. I have had it for over 4 months now, use it every day for online University and it has never failed me. Smooth running, no freezeups. The number pad next to the keyboard is an excellent addition as I use it for my math classes. The price is right, the quality is excellent.

Sound is very good, keyboard and keys are comfortable, webcam is awesome. Battery life is as described, even though I mostly use it plugged in. I am running Windows Vista and have no issues. Love this computer.

I was abit hesitant at first to purchase this laptop but after much deliberation i did and i have absolutly no regret it is fast very responsive and full of goodies very big hard drive plenty memory good webcam along with others, i will not hesitate to recommend this to a friend or anyone who wants a good affordable laptop,. money well spent.

I looked for a long time for a new laptop, and also had the biggest scrutinizer helping me look--my son!!! :) I definitely was happy with my choice!!! The price was good, and it has the functions and hardware that is just as good or better to a lot of them on the market. Was super fast shipping, and love the color too!

After doing a lot of research, I settled on buying this laptop. I've had it for about 3 months now, and have yet to find anything to complain about. I'm starting to get concerned about overheating, but that's probably only a result of use on levels that are not healthy for a person. Otherwise, it's great.

I have been an Acer fan for the past 8 years. My last one is still in use, but I felt like getting a new one for my business and it is doing quite well with the many programs that I run. It takes a bit of time on boot-up (a full 1 minute), but it is fast and reliable.

I bought this because my husband's last laptop was an Acer, he absolutely loves his. He has had no problems with it unlike the HP's we've had in the past. I have had mine a few months now and I LOVE mine too, a wonderful laptop for a reasonable price. I will not buy an HP again, JMHO.

I brought this laptop about a month ago and so far so good. I use it daily for school and personal use and glorify it. My only disappointment, I was not able to utilize the free 60 day trial of McAfee because the wrong version was preinstalled. But that's insignificant. The computer itself is an A, I will NEVER go back to Dell.

I found myself having to move about 4 hours away from my family to follow a job when my old facility closed it's doors. I am online every day, plus I use the computer for many other things, as most of us do anymore. I didn't want to take my desktop with me both because I was traveling light, and because I didn't want to take away my wife's access to a computer and the internet. So I started looking at laptops. This is hardly the fastest one out there, but it does everything I need it to do. The wireless and wired internet access have both worked beautifully. It has a good size hard drive (although I also purchased a terabite portable drive to transfer pictures, music and such from the desktop). The touchpad works well enough, I just don't really like touchpads so I got a wireless mouse. The webcam works great, and very soon I will be purchasing one for the desktop back home for some video chats. The main thing I needed that was difficult to find on other laptops in my price range was a DVD burner drive. The thing about this laptop that has most surprised me has been the great keyboard. I have used laptops owned by other people, and the keyboards are usualy not great. This keyboard is full-sized, and the keys actually depress and click back up in a manner that is very familiar and comfortable to anyone who has used a regular, desktop-style keyboard. I am not a hardcore gamer (not anymore anyway) but the few games I play regularly have all worked very well on this machine, and the DVD playback has also been very good!