New Acer Aspire E Notebook (ES1-512-C323) - Dual-core Intel Celeron / 4GB DDR3L SDRAM / 500GB HDD / Windows 8.1 / WiFi / Webcam / 15.6" HD LED Display - Black
This is My Opinion About This Product
After I buy this New Acer Aspire E Notebook (ES1-512-C323) - Dual-core Intel Celeron / 4GB DDR3L SDRAM / 500GB HDD / Windows 8.1 / WiFi / Webcam / 15.6" HD LED Display - Black (Personal Computers)
I purchased this for my kids and I have not been disappointed. Overall is a really well built laptop for the money, though it is a little under-powered. The “Intel Celeron” in this model is basically a high-end “Atom” CPU and it based on the new “Bay Trail” architecture designed for tablets. So for starters, think of this as a “high-end tablet with a big screen and keyboard.” That’s not really a bad thing. You get really good battery life (they claim six hours, my kids are getting around that) out of a pretty small battery (3 cell). That helps keep the weight and cost down. The graphics are only suitable for web browsing, Office-type programs and basic gaming. Anything like Minecraft and similar “App” type games are fine. You will not be able to play anything close to a new, high end 3D game on this (though older 3D games will run okay).
What this is really built for is basic web and productivity apps. This is a great laptop for a student, because you can be sure they won’t be off playing games on it. And if they break it, you aren’t out much money. The screen is not 1080p (it’s 1366x768) but you don’t really notice it much: it has no trouble with HD movies. It is NOT a touch screen. Frankly there are no good touch screens this size in this price range, so for me that is a plus (good touch screen 15” laptops start at $500). Note that there is *NO* DVD or CDROM drive. Again, for kids this is almost preferred, because they tend to just break them. There’s not much out there you can’t download (in fact I’ve grown to love Amazon’s software download service because the program stays in your “software library” on Amazon which makes it easy to re-download when you buy a new computer). You can buy external drives for about $40 (I have one, but I haven’t had cause to use it in years). This should only matter to you if you have old software that’s on CD or DVD or wanted to watch movies that you had on DVD or Blu-ray.
This laptop has wireless (including “Miracast” which allows you to wireless transmit video to many TVs and set-top boxes such as Fire TV) and plenty of USB ports. It does not have Blutooth. That’s not a big deal for me, as I’ve never had a reason to connect Blutooth to a laptop, but if you had a reason to want Blutooth then you are going to want to look for a different model. It has three full sized USB ports (including one high-speed USB 3.0 port). It also has a full-size Ethernet and HDMI port.
So why buy this? For the price of a 8” tablet you get a 15” screen, full Windows support, full size ports (instead of mini or micro ports you can’t find a cable for) and a much more powerful CPU. No it’s not as powerful as an core i3 laptop but frankly there’s not much more you can do on an i3 that you can’t do here (you’ll enable a few more games, but it’s still not a “gaming” laptop). If you want more power you’ll really want to bump up to a Core i5. To be clear if 3D gaming matters to you a $800 Core i7 is pretty much your starting point. But if you are looking to find a good “basic” laptop I’m not sure you could do better at this price. And you are definitely going to have trouble finding this kind of battery life in a laptop at this price.
What this is really built for is basic web and productivity apps. This is a great laptop for a student, because you can be sure they won’t be off playing games on it. And if they break it, you aren’t out much money. The screen is not 1080p (it’s 1366x768) but you don’t really notice it much: it has no trouble with HD movies. It is NOT a touch screen. Frankly there are no good touch screens this size in this price range, so for me that is a plus (good touch screen 15” laptops start at $500). Note that there is *NO* DVD or CDROM drive. Again, for kids this is almost preferred, because they tend to just break them. There’s not much out there you can’t download (in fact I’ve grown to love Amazon’s software download service because the program stays in your “software library” on Amazon which makes it easy to re-download when you buy a new computer). You can buy external drives for about $40 (I have one, but I haven’t had cause to use it in years). This should only matter to you if you have old software that’s on CD or DVD or wanted to watch movies that you had on DVD or Blu-ray.
This laptop has wireless (including “Miracast” which allows you to wireless transmit video to many TVs and set-top boxes such as Fire TV) and plenty of USB ports. It does not have Blutooth. That’s not a big deal for me, as I’ve never had a reason to connect Blutooth to a laptop, but if you had a reason to want Blutooth then you are going to want to look for a different model. It has three full sized USB ports (including one high-speed USB 3.0 port). It also has a full-size Ethernet and HDMI port.
So why buy this? For the price of a 8” tablet you get a 15” screen, full Windows support, full size ports (instead of mini or micro ports you can’t find a cable for) and a much more powerful CPU. No it’s not as powerful as an core i3 laptop but frankly there’s not much more you can do on an i3 that you can’t do here (you’ll enable a few more games, but it’s still not a “gaming” laptop). If you want more power you’ll really want to bump up to a Core i5. To be clear if 3D gaming matters to you a $800 Core i7 is pretty much your starting point. But if you are looking to find a good “basic” laptop I’m not sure you could do better at this price. And you are definitely going to have trouble finding this kind of battery life in a laptop at this price.
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