Acer Aspire 5 Slim Laptop, 15.6 Inches FHD IPS Display, 8th Gen Intel Core i5-8265U, 8GB DDR4, 256GB SSD, Fingerprint Reader, Windows 10 Home, A515-54-51DJ

Good little laptop, fast, bright screen, lightweight. Use Google products with out issue

This laptop is everything I would need from a laptop it’s just perfect for me. I was honestly expecting it to be a little heavier due to the 15.6 screen size but it’s surprisingly very lightweight! I can carry this in my backpack with no problems at all. I love the back lit keyboard and I don’t really like the touchpad mouse on laptops so I bought my own separate physical mouse that works great! It starts up fast and has a very nice screen with good graphics and color. I will say that the fan can get a touch loud, but it won’t stay on for very long. Mostly I notice it’ll run when the laptop is still warming up or just loading a lot of stuff. But the fan will shut off after a few minutes or so and will remain quiet otherwise. It doesn’t really bother me.

Hard Drive crapped out after 1 year

OK I knew going in that all new computers come with a complement of preloaded apps for which the manufacturer receives inducements. They propose it is to Enhance the users experience but in reality they are at best a nuisance and some are malicious usage trackers.. In the past these were relatively easy for technically literate users to eliminate. Now they have become much more sophisticated and devious and it took me about 5-6 hours to disinfect this ACER 5 slim machine. I use my laptop for serious work and cannot have tracking software of any kind so I am very careful what I load on my machines. I do not use Facebook, Twitter, Skype or even the Google search engine because of their behind-the-screens mischief. SO I thought I have every thing cleared off except the pre-installed Firefox browser (my browser of choice). I was setting this machine up for my wife and upon boot-up the desktop and functionality has to look just like the old machine else she is not happy with the change. Even to the point of having the exactly same Firefox tabs open in the new machine as was open in the old machine. So after everything was prepared and all the other software installed I moved her old Firefox profile to the new machine and turned it over to her. After about 5-10 minutes Firefox locked up and would not exit. Even task manager could not clear the fault. I was able to force a restart but then Firefox would not load at all. At this point I have about 20 hours of time in this project. If I was doing this for a customer that would be about $1000 dollars for a $500 dollar computer. In the end and MANY hours of work later, after doing aWindows restore to the initial state of the machine and removing all the crapware again I used control panel to uninstall Firefox and deleted all its related folders including those in the hidden c:/user/username/%APPDATA% and c:/user/Public/downloads folder (delete everything there). I then downloaded Firefox from their website and set everything up again. So far all looks good but she uses Facebook so her footprints are being collected. I never use her computer for my work so thats OK. In the near future I will need a new machine and am not looking forward to having to set it up.

Do Not buy this laptop.

Coming from a 10 years old Celeron, I think that anything would be great to me. I use it mainly for office, reference manager (Zotero) and some browsing.

upon setup of the laptop a virus surfaced. Virus came with setup. Acer was no help. Think twice before making this purchase

good

Exactly what I expected and needed for what the work that I am doing with it. Not a great gaming computer unless you upgrade the memory and graphics card. The processor is on point though.

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