Sexy laptop - Worth it?

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  1. kevan

    kevan Imagination rules the world

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    To end any Acer versus HP versus Toshiba debates. Toshiba has the lowest fail rate. HP has the highest. If I remember correctly Acer sits in the middle-low area.
     
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  2. raulpica

    raulpica With your drill, thrust to the sky!

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    Source?
     
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  3. kevan

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    I would find the source. But

    A: I'm tired
    B: I read this halfway through last year.
     
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    CCNaru Warn-free Since 2005

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  5. Foxi4

    Foxi4 On the hunt...

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    Right elbow againts the desk, arm tilted towards the touchpad - it's actually very comfortable for a right-handed person.

    ¬

    It's the touchpads on the right side that make you creep your arm unnaturally that give me shivers.
     
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  6. Midna

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    My asus laptop experienced charging issues after two months. I had to send it across the country to get it fixed because my in store warranty was up.

    All laptops suck.


    Intel HD 3000 is the best in integrated laptop graphics at the moment. Expect to be able to run Source games with it, but not too much higher than that.
     
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  7. Foxi4

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    Well, d'uh. Laptop is no replacement for a proper desktop, still, it's better then a damned Netbook.

    Most charging issues occour when users simultainously charge and drain the battery by using the laptop as they charge rather then removing the battery not to waste its charging cycles. Either that or pulling at the charger's cable and bending the connector. :P I wonder what happened to yours, was it a factory defect? [/Plain curiousity]
     
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    The charging connector on the laptop was screwed up. Wouldn't charge at all unless I held it in place. It was a real pain.

    Though thanks for the tip about removing the battery. I'm getting a new laptop later and I'll remember to do that.
     
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    Oh, that is oh-so-common! That's the first connector that gets loose or broken - nothing serious, but still a damned pain. They should really put them in place better - half of'em are slightly loose even when laptops are factory-new and in mint condition. That's one thing everybody's gotta watch out for - fiddling with the connector too much equals solder work.
     
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  10. tinorex

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    I have an Acer Aspire, and i can tell you, even though it gets hot sometimes (only when skyrim on summer) it works pretty well, and i've had it for 2 years now, i can't complain, it was the best choice between a minor specs asus or this laptop i'm currently writing on.

    Also, i do a lot of programming on it, and being an i5 processor, it works flawlessly.
     
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    Newegg has to factor in the Tax, coming out to over $700 Amazon exempts the tax coming under $700. I never itemize, so it would theoretically be better to get off of Amazon.
     
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  12. Nimbus

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    Probably being lazy.
    What is everyones beef with acers. I've had mine now for about 5-6 months, and not a single issue at all. Hell, I bumped up the RAM to 6GB and this thing screams along now.

    I think Acers a decent brand. HP on the other hand, I've had nothing but bad luck with.

    But again, just because one person has bad luck with one brand means nothing. Another person could have excelent luck with them.

    But yes, as thieves like us mentioned. Do not buy anything with a integrated graphics card if you're going to be doing heavy graphics processing and gaming. Learn from my mistake, although really the most graphically intensive thing I do is Second Life.
     
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    the trackpad isn't on the left side, it's centered on the keyboard. all of the laptops that have a dedicated numeric keypad have the trackpad centered on the keyboard (so, it appears to be shifted to the left).
     
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    lol you live in California?
     
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  15. lakaiskateboarding

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    Maybe you should go to a store and have a look at some laptops. As I already said, any laptop can do what you want to do with it. So perhaps it is a good idea to go for a laptop with slightly lower specs, but with a better screen and keyboard. Those two items don't really seem important at first, but they always turn out to be really important in the end.
     
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