Acer Aspire E5-571-7776 Laptop (Windows 8, Intel Core i7-4510U 2.0 GHz, 15.6" LED-lit Screen, Storage: 1 TB, RAM: 8 GB) Titanium Silver

The hard drive crashed after about 5 hours of usage. A reputable service center did recover it but, after about 2 further hours of usage, the hard drive crashed again. At that point, I had to purchase a different brand of computer.

Disclaimer: Mainly Window 7 ReviewI Upgraded from Windows 8 to Windows 7 (and I do mean upgraded!)Very Nice Laptop, I chose for decent price, i7 processor, great battery, and the fact Acer has all the drivers for windows 7 i could wipe that win8 garbage off the laptop. This laptop is compatible with SanDisk SSD's you just need to turn off the UEFI boot if you will be going back to windows 7.Couple Minor issues--------------------------------------1) touch pad is huge: my palm had the habit of hitting the pad and clicking so turned that off, also I accidentally misplace my click fingers right and left out of habit with smaller pads and incorrectly left or right click some times.2) touch pad is huge: Also after turning the mouse speed up all the way, it still seems to take alot more effort/finger movement to get across the screen than i am use to. (man that sounds so lazy when written down....)3) My SSD (480gb Sandisk Ultra II ) came from a previous laptop (worked perfectly) Cleaned and Fresh install (latest bios update), very intermittently (every 8th time or so) from Power off startup will say no boot device. hit Ctrl-alt-del it will reboot and take off just fine. I believe the SSD is taking longer to power up than the laptop is willing to wait. Acer says they have not certified SSD's in this laptop so your problem if you put one in. (I told them they were stupid for not testing every laptop with an ssd of some kind.)4) Ensure of the correct touch pad and wireless driver. I installed the wrong wireless/bluetooth it kind of worked but not, uninstall and worked great. Installed the wrong touchpad driver worked but occasionally touchpad would just lockup/not respond. reinstalled correct problem disappeared5) No CD/DVD this is the norm now especially for low power use laptops but it does suck to be in town and have to pull out a portable CD and try to find a surface to put this thing hanging off your laptop somewhere , or worse yet forget the DVD drive at home.6) WIFI and Indicator lights. Two of my biggest gripes are to adequately control wifi and blue tooth you must use the secondary application (LM radioController) Acer created to turn them off and on. There are NO LEDs for hard drive activity, or WiFI so you have NO clue what is going on with them. It sounds stupid but..surprising enough the missing leds are alot more of an irritation for me than I would have imagined. It has only two leds, mostly redundant. A battery status led and a power plugged in led. surprised they did not combine them into a single like other laptops I have had...Great things:------------------------------------1) Phenomenal battery life (with SSD) in power save mode wifi and moderate use. I have actually gotten about 7 hours check it was telling me 1.5+ plus more. I have not yet actually run it out in one sitting yet.2) Pretty quick system Compiling in Android studio and Visual Studio very decent. Not quite as responsive as my 8 core PC when doing multiple tasks but it is a laptop. Video card decent, It's not a full on gaming system but very acceptable. Looking at passmark it is only 4th generation but slugs it out with some of the 5th generation cpus that seem to mainly be improved in power consumption more so than performance.3) Lighter than other average laptops. As powerful as it is seems alot more light weight than my works thinkpad and my old gateway. A good sign was my wife said that my laptop was so light her next one needed to be more like that.I would give it 5 stars if: Acer wakes up and sees the trend of SSD's being installed and starts supporting them. no Wifi or Hard drive led. Touchpad was not so huge. And although the laptop has space and a port built in to accept a internal DVD drive they refuse to discuss, or offer an option to install one..

I have been working on computers since the 80's, so I have a good background in computers. So my wife wanted a new computer so she can go back and get her masters. I researched them, and for the price this worked well. It's fast, however, loaded with tons of junk software I had to remove. Moreover, I use Webroot Secure anywhere Anti virus (which I highly recommend) and it even pulled up two pre-installed virus purchase trackers. I wasn't happy with that. However, as I said, the computer is a good one if you know how to remove all the pre-installed junk.BTW, I quickly removed the virus software installed, it's junk and tries to get you to buy a bunch of crappy add ons.

**Amend (9/1/2016) It hasn't even been 2 yrs since having this laptop and the touchpad has given out for anything to do with the right side and now it won't hold a charge. The battery is internal so we can't change it out and we are being told it would cost less to buy a new laptop than try to fix this one. It has been one issue after another with this thing. Def worth it to pay a little more and get a better quality brand/laptop.(Original) It was easy to set up, but a still not a huge fan of 8.1. Took a little while to find out how to turn off the password screen. With the specs that this system has, I expected the overall web and program transitions to be faster. We use it for high level school programs, netflix and music. So far my 16yr old can have spotify running with her music in the background, have an excel spreadsheet up and use the net for research, but it is a little slower than we thought it would be. I think if it had a better or higher processing graphics card that it may help. Overall though so far so good but only been a couple of weeks.

Apparently this is a somewhat common issue with acer aspire laptops, but after having this laptop for 2 months, the LED screen began flashing white, and shortly after remained completely white, obviously rendering it useless. Since it was clearly still under warranty Acer fixed it for me no hassle, no questions asked, but I was a little surprised to see it having problems so early on.Other than that, this laptop has a great battery life, runs great, all that good stuff. Im not a huge fan of the speakers being on the bottom, but nothing is perfect.

I have bought dozens if not hundreds of items from Amazon and this is the second ever that I have sent back. For context the other time was when I bought an iPhone which had a missing part of the screen when it arrived- that's how bad it has to be for me to send it back.I was looking for a work computer that could run the statistical software I needed for my coursework. Having actual internet access is key to that. At first I was pleased with the product- until about 15 minutes in when I tried using the internet. It took almost 5 minutes to loan internet explorer to download Chrome (when it finally did it took an hour to install Chrome). I ran a speed test, less than 1mps (for context, my old laptop which was about 6 inches away got 8 times faster despite being a 'worse' computer).To try to speed up the computer I tried to delete the huge amounts of bloatware. After finally letting me install some of the junk it made me reset my computer. That took more than an hour. When it finally got up again- it had reinstalled a bunch more bloatware!Absolutely piece of junk paperweight. Took me about 6 hours between being excited fr my new computer and printing out the label to send it back. Do not buy.