Customer Reviews

Acer eMachines D620-5150 14.1-Inch Laptop - Black

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Bought one of these emachines last week and I like it. Make sure you delete the pre-installed Norton anti-virus as soon as you get this. It bogged the system down SO much. Especially at start-up and shut down.

Its a decent weight, keyboard is pretty easy to type on. The screen is clear and bright, sound is decent.

Great value for what you pay for it.

One suggestion: get a cooling mat.

Ok, first of all everyone who's complained about this laptop obviously hasn't realized that Windows Vista cripples ANYTHING that it's installed on. That and the bloatware that the eMachines come installed with. Like Norton Anti-Virus.

The D620 is a powerful little laptop and can preform very good if given the chance. If you buy one, or own one, get rid of Windows Vista and install Windows 7. Once you have, you'll notice the D620 run at least three times as good as it did with Vista. Install free alternatives to Norton, my favorite which runs well is Avast! Free.

Finally, upgrade the ram from 1GB to 3GB. This is cheap to do and it's simple. Just unscrew a few screws from the bottom of the laptop and click the ram into place.

One thing that sets this budget laptop from the rest, and even from more expensive laptops is that it has a dedicated graphics card from ATI with dedicated memory at 256mb.

I've gamed Counter Strike Source, Half Life 2, Garry's Mod (on full without anti-aliasing) and it runs GREAT. Even some newer games run good as long as you turn down the graphics. I use my eMachines D620 to do basic logo designs in Photoshop. Runs like a champ.

I couldn't disagree more with the reviews on this site. The eMachines D620, although now three years old does a great job. It's seriously an underrated laptop which deserves more praise.

I'd also like to mention that my laptop is on constantly. I mean 24/7, up to a month without a restart. So it's put under some heavy use and I still haven't had any failures or blue screens. I might just be lucky, but eMachines have earned a little respect from me with the D620.

This is a laptop for children to learn the basics on. Does everythong it should, but is very slow, not for anyone who wants to get work done. Excellent for the beginner user !!!

I've had this laptop for almost 18 months now. You get what you pay for I guess. Oh yeah, uninstall the Norton they have on here. It's terrible and causes the whole system to run slow. At the 6 month mark, the LCD cracked....of course that isn't covered under the 1 year warranty. After 9 months the battery stopped holding a charge. I get about 10 minutes on a battery charge now. You have to leave this plugged in at all times. Oh, and after about a year, the charger died so I had to get a universal charger. So, I initially purchased the laptop for around $400 and spent another $200 on a new LCD and then another $60 on a universal lap top charger. And the battery still doesn't hold a charge. Avoid this one if you can.

Well, only one phrase comes to mind. You get what you pay for. This laptop was great for about 6 months. At that point the hinges on the lid began to seize up, when you close the lid, the hinges stay where they were and they tore through the plastic on the lid. Now the lid is floating by wires literally no hinges. My friends wife bought one also, and had the same issue in about the same amount of time.

Also whenever windows gets a new update the wireless card no longer is recognized (possibly drivers, but am too irritated to fix that).

If we would have not gotten the "gimme gimmies" we could have saved a little more for a nice laptop.

If you just need a laptop for like 6 months(ya right) this one is great lol. Or if you don't plan to use it very often opening and closing it.

Another issue is the battery sucks, within about 3 months the battery would stay charged for about 10 mins MAXIMUM! literally, and replacement batteries are like 40-50 bucks.

I did not buy this product through Amazon, I got it at [...] new. If you pay more you are wasting your money :P

On the bright side, it makes a heck of a paperweight, and I may be able to get a few dollars back on Ebay parting it out lol!!!!!

Bottom line, get another laptop. Rant over.