Opinions On This Laptop

Bought an 15.6" Acer with i3 and 1tb HDD. Paid $329 two years ago. It has and optical drive. Been a really good laptop.

Keep your eye on Wal-Mart as Back to home schooling sales are about to start.
 
Originally Posted by paqza
Originally Posted by Triple_Se7en
Originally Posted by pbm
I haven't had good luck with laptops but love my Chromebook....it's simple and great for surfing the net...which is basically all that I do with a computer.
I have a half a dozen old laptops sitting around....my kids were hard on them in school. I finally bought them Apples and they haven't needed a new one
since.

No repairs to the Apples?

I am soul-searching here. So fed up with the Iron Fist of Windows 10 on mine. Every time a major update occurs, things are missing or broke afterwards - while other things are installed that take up drive space and I'll never use.

Price.... (wait let me rephrase), ransom I paid when I allowed Microsoft to download Windows 10 for free, a year or-so after I bought the machine new running Windows 8.


Apple's weird - I've been using Macs since 2006 and they've been super-reliable and the OS experience is honestly unbeatable but they're expensive and there was a long run recently where they had really terrible keyboards. My workhorse laptop is a 13" Macbook Pro I picked up off Craigslist for $625 with 6 months of the 1 year warranty still left on it. My photo-editing computer is a 2010 iMac I added some ram to, my parents still use a 2008 iMac, and my wife's 2010 Macbook Pro still works, even though the screen resolution is low. So my newest Mac is 5 years old and still running strong, and I'm regularly using a 10 year old computer. You're not going to see that with Windows machines.


My experience too. I routinely work from 2010 macs, and am typing this from my "new" 2013 retina MBP.
 
I just hate when a company orders me to take something from them - that I don't want.
I hate it when the same company removes something I want and won't give it back.
Hate it when said company won't allow a competitor program, app or document, access to my computer

I especially hate when said company tells me my hard-earned money product won't work properly, unless I either accept their conditions, or attempt to uninstall these conditions.

Yet, looking at Bill Gates on TV, he appears as the nicest guy on earth. But when the camera lights shut-off, another side emerges.
 
Not a laptop but I got an off lease Lenovo Tiny Thinkcentre with an I5, 64 gig SSD and 8 gig ram for $195. Should have been $145 but I needed it then and had to buy Win10 which I got rid of on startup, replacing with Ubuntu Mate. Kind of wish I'd played with it for a couple of hours as my last (bad) experience with Win was 7.

The I5 with 8 gig memory really screams with Ubuntu Mate but I bet it would be marginal with Win 10. There's a big difference between a $300 Chromebook and a $300 Windows laptop. Remember going from a Netbook to a Chromebook, wasn't the same at all. Things may have changed, but I've never bought a Windows computer that didn't deteriorate to unusable within a few years.
 
Originally Posted by Triple_Se7en
I just hate when a company orders me to take something from them - that I don't want.
I hate it when the same company removes something I want and won't give it back.
Hate it when said company won't allow a competitor program, app or document, access to my computer

I especially hate when said company tells me my hard-earned money product won't work properly, unless I either accept their conditions, or attempt to uninstall these conditions.

Yet, looking at Bill Gates on TV, he appears as the nicest guy on earth. But when the camera lights shut-off, another side emerges.



Apple does a similar thing with their lack of flash support and requirement that every app comes through i-tunes unless you jail break the unit.
 
Originally Posted by danez_yoda
Originally Posted by Triple_Se7en
I just hate when a company orders me to take something from them - that I don't want.
I hate it when the same company removes something I want and won't give it back.
Hate it when said company won't allow a competitor program, app or document, access to my computer

I especially hate when said company tells me my hard-earned money product won't work properly, unless I either accept their conditions, or attempt to uninstall these conditions.

Yet, looking at Bill Gates on TV, he appears as the nicest guy on earth. But when the camera lights shut-off, another side emerges.



Apple does a similar thing with their lack of flash support and requirement that every app comes through i-tunes unless you jail break the unit.


Flash is dead this year and on MacOS you're not required to download every app through the App Store. As for iPhones, you can download Altstore without a jailbreak.
 
Originally Posted by BlueOvalFitter
I bought a Google Chromebook but really don't like it.

I wonder why you don't like your Chromebook? The Google Chromebooks are expensive and top of the line. I just got a Pixelbook Go...
I think Chromebooks are the best thing going for most people.
I use a high end, big buck Dell for database work and programming, but for everyday stuff my Chromie beats it hands down.

Here is the new Lenovo, which is a game changer at $409. From a speed and battery life standpoint, this thing kills any Mac or Win box by a long shot.

Lenovo Chromebook Flex

Review
 
Last edited:
Originally Posted by paqza
Apple's weird - I've been using Macs since 2006 and they've been super-reliable and the OS experience is honestly unbeatable but they're expensive and there was a long run recently where they had really terrible keyboards. My workhorse laptop is a 13" Macbook Pro I picked up off Craigslist for $625 with 6 months of the 1 year warranty still left on it. My photo-editing computer is a 2010 iMac I added some ram to, my parents still use a 2008 iMac, and my wife's 2010 Macbook Pro still works, even though the screen resolution is low. So my newest Mac is 5 years old and still running strong, and I'm regularly using a 10 year old computer. You're not going to see that with Windows machines.


Up until last year I had a few Windows laptops with Core 2 Duos from 2007 as backups at work and Windows 10 works smooth on it. It's easy to keep a computer running smooth - much easier than a car. Nobody wants to do it though and users regularly blame the software/hardware when the issue is between the chair and keyboard. If the laptop didn't look like 2007 then I would have kept them.

Latest Mac updates requires a at least laptop from 2012 or desktop from 2013:

MacBook (Early 2015 or newer)
MacBook Air (Mid 2012 or newer)
MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 or newer)
Mac mini (Late 2012 or newer)
iMac (Late 2012 or newer)
iMac Pro (2017)
Mac Pro (Late 2013 or newer)
 
Originally Posted by dishdude
Originally Posted by BlueOvalFitter
This is the ACER chrome book that I have. It was built in April 2020. I caught it on sale for $169.95 at my local WM.
Opinions?
https://www.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/model/NX.GHJAA.002


The processor is awful and it only has 2 GB ram and a low res screen. That would be a painful computer to use.

Why do you think l dislike it so much?
 
This is the laptop I bought today.
[Linked Image]


Resized_20200708_103149_4984 (1).jpeg
 
I was talking to a computer tech that works at our local casino (Paragon Casino) this morning in WM. He said to replace the HD in this laptop with (l think) a solid state HD. He said it will make it faster. Does this sound familiar? I don't know if l stated what he said, correctly.
21.gif
 
It already has a solid state HD. PassMark score on the processor isn't bad, so this should give you much better performance.

RAM is probably soldered to the board, PCs like this aren't really meant to be upgraded.
 
Computers are tools. And they are like cars.
Buy junk and they don't last. Buy too slow and you gotta wait.
I hate cheap tools. Nuthin' but trouble.

Here's a quick summary:
Apple - iOS - Nice but pricey. $800 up.
PC - Win - A decent one starts at $600; good one same as Apple
Chromebook - Chrome OS - lightweight operating system - basically an Android cell phone laptop. Fast, by far longest battery life. Great laptop is $400.

If you are doing video editing - iOS
Heavy spreadsheet - PC
Everyday use - Chrome

We have at least 30 laptops in out house, from Chromies to Apples, PCs. From $400 to $4,000.
I do heavy database and front end programming on a $2,000 Dell.
I use a Pixelbook Go for everyday use, such as arguing on BITOG - $650. This replaced an ASUS C302a which is a wonderful Chromebook

A great Chromebook is the $409 Lenovo Chromebook Flex 6
A good PC Laptop is a Dell 5000; Costco usually has them. 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD Drive or better - around $700
Apple - Macbook Air - around $900

I would not buy any computer with less than an i3 cpu.
 
Last edited:
Im wondering if you bought it?

I dont think you have anything to lose, if you dont like it you can just return it. (pretty sure that is correct for Walmart electronics returns and many others)
I do think its a very smart move over Google/Chrome but I guess you know that.
 
Last edited:
Originally Posted by alarmguy
Im wondering if you bought it?

I dont think you have anything to lose, if you dont like it you can just return it. (pretty sure that is correct for Walmart electronics returns and many others)
I do think its a very smart move over Google/Chrome but I guess you know that.

Well, of course I bought it. Do you need to see pics of it?
21.gif
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

T
  • Locked
2012 Camry 1-year review
Replies
19
Views
4K
Traction
raaizin
  • Locked
Help me pick a laptop for junior in HS
2
Replies
25
Views
9K
javacontour
C
  • Locked
Opinions on Thinkpad Edge Laptops?
2
Replies
24
Views
10K
97tbird
dkryan
  • Locked
Advice on possible new laptop purchase............
Replies
9
Views
3K
SLCraig
T
  • Locked
Windows 7
2 3 4
Replies
62
Views
45K
MysticGold04
Back
Top