New Acer VX2631-UR10 Desktop (Black)
This is My Opinion About This Product
After I buy this New Acer VX2631-UR10 Desktop (Black) (Personal Computers)
It's cool running, quiet enough to be completely undetectable in most rooms and has Windows 7 installed, for those of us who do not want Windows 8. It's a midget (I can pick it up with one hand) desktop "tower" that can either stand vertically or lay horizontally.
The Quick Start brochure packed with it says it will connect to Wi-Fi and has an HDMI connector; neither is true. There are several versions of this model and I'm guessing they drop a generic Quick Start brochure in the box with it. Amazon's description of it is accurate, it's the Quick Start that's wrong.
I was slightly suspicious of how the optical drive would work when installed vertically. It works fine with a full-size disc, but will not run a mini-disc as supplied for driver installation with many aftermarket accessories (it falls out). The solution to the problem is simple; lay the computer down horizontally to run the mini-disc, then stand it back up vertically, if that's the way you use it.
I took a peek inside before I started it up. The top cover comes off easily by removing two screws on the rear panel. The quality of construction and assembly is excellent, no sharp edges on sheet-metal and all wiring is cleanly routed and secured. It has two memory slots with one being used for a 4MB DDR3 module, leaving an open slot for another memory module, should you desire to install one. It also has a PCI Express slot and a full size PCI slot, for aftermarket cards. Both PCI slots require low-profile mounting brackets.
Note: the BIOS will give you a "warning - cover has been removed" alert message and will interrupt normal start up if you take the cover off and reinstall it, as I did. You can elect to continue the start up (and get the alert at every start up thereafter), or go into the BIOS and clear the alert message, which I did. If you do not take the cover off it does a normal Win7 start up.
No tech manual is supplied but there is a sticker attached to the inside of the top cover describing all the motherboard headers and jumpers. If you're comfortable inside a desktop it has all the tech info most people would need. Everything else is simply plug-it-in and turn-it-on.
Ed
The Quick Start brochure packed with it says it will connect to Wi-Fi and has an HDMI connector; neither is true. There are several versions of this model and I'm guessing they drop a generic Quick Start brochure in the box with it. Amazon's description of it is accurate, it's the Quick Start that's wrong.
I was slightly suspicious of how the optical drive would work when installed vertically. It works fine with a full-size disc, but will not run a mini-disc as supplied for driver installation with many aftermarket accessories (it falls out). The solution to the problem is simple; lay the computer down horizontally to run the mini-disc, then stand it back up vertically, if that's the way you use it.
I took a peek inside before I started it up. The top cover comes off easily by removing two screws on the rear panel. The quality of construction and assembly is excellent, no sharp edges on sheet-metal and all wiring is cleanly routed and secured. It has two memory slots with one being used for a 4MB DDR3 module, leaving an open slot for another memory module, should you desire to install one. It also has a PCI Express slot and a full size PCI slot, for aftermarket cards. Both PCI slots require low-profile mounting brackets.
Note: the BIOS will give you a "warning - cover has been removed" alert message and will interrupt normal start up if you take the cover off and reinstall it, as I did. You can elect to continue the start up (and get the alert at every start up thereafter), or go into the BIOS and clear the alert message, which I did. If you do not take the cover off it does a normal Win7 start up.
No tech manual is supplied but there is a sticker attached to the inside of the top cover describing all the motherboard headers and jumpers. If you're comfortable inside a desktop it has all the tech info most people would need. Everything else is simply plug-it-in and turn-it-on.
Ed
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