Whoa! Buy an Acer? Might as well just buy a box of razorblades and start cutting yourself now, cause you are in for a world of pain. Better just end it all and kill yourself instead of buying an Acer.
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On a more serious note, the people telling you not to buy the laptop don't have a clue. Lets look at the facts:
- Acer has the best reliability among laptop brands as per Consumer Reports.
- The laptop has specs that are perfectly suited (in fact, more than necessary) to everyday tasks, such as surfing the internet, playing music, watching videos.
(Core i5? Awesome for a laptop. 4GB Ram? 500GB Hard Drive? 802.11n? All good.)
- The laptop isn't a gaming laptop, it has Intel Integrated Graphics (which is not good!), but it appears to have 128MB of Dedicated Video RAM (which is good!). You will be able to play Warcraft III just fine, it's an eight year old game. Newer games, you may be running at reduced resolution or low detail, but not a big deal.
- You seem comfortable paying that price, and the black friday price seems quite decent. Not amazing, but not terrible either.
I'd say you should be able to buy it confidently.