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I can't afford to lose the 300 dollars I paid. I bought the computer a little over a month ago and have had it work less than 2 weeks.I feel I should get a new computer or some kind of compensation for all the inconvience I have been through. When you call you get someone in India who has to read a script to attempt to fix.
The computer turns off 30 seconds after I turn it on.I called the customer service and get someone in India. I don't believe they did anything to fix the problem. I got my netbook May 28th and on June 10th I was already calling to get it repaired.
I didn't get it to work as soon as it returned.I have to send it in again. Can't we have costumer service in this country since people here are unemployed. I sent the product in and when it returned it still dosen't work.
Same problem.
Bottom line, if you have $300 to spend, save a few more bucks and get something decent from another company. He said that is not covered in the warranty and wanted to charge me $199 to fix it. Since my ordeal, I have researched and have found that the power ports on these are very cheaply made and super delicate. Ok, So I bought 2 of these acer Aspire ones. Never again will I buy another Acer Product. I called and of course I get some one in India, who I can barely understand. And After only a month, One of them wont charge, and its clear that the power port is dysfunctional. I explained the problem and that it had been over 15 days and walmart wont take it back.
It is easy to type on, easy to carry around, and it does everything that my other laptop would do and then some.The only thing that makes it a little inconvenient is that it has no disk drive because it's so small, but you can buy an external drive at Wal-mart for like $40-50, so it's not all that bad. I've loved taking it to school with me. I don't have anything negative to say about this little guy. It is convenient in almost every way.
These thicker circles occur when I'm not touching any key but am moving the mouse pointer. I have to go into Trash and move those emails back into the inbox.My brother, who recommended this computer after buying one for himself, is also annoyed by these features. One problem is that the pointer freezes and concentric circles radiate from it.
So I'll be typing an email and suddenly the text I am typing appears in the middle of a word a few paragraphs higher in the email. Neither of us has found any way to disable the concentric-circles-computer-freeze feature, or to make the mouse pointer remain where we put it, or to set the mouse pointer to only do things when we click on a mouse button.Aside from the mouse pointer, the Acer Aspire One seems to be a good computer. Or I will delete a spam email in the inbox, and if I don't immediately move the pointer off the Trash icon, the emails below the spam also are dumped into Trash.
My Acer Aspire One's mouse pointer causes me a lot of trouble. It doesn't wait for me to click on a mouse button. Its small size and light weight are very handy.
This is not the same kind of thinner concentric circles you can get if you set the computer to show where the mouse pointer is when you touch the Ctrl key. The computer freezes for about a minute while the thick concentric circles are around the pointer's point.The other problem is that the mouse pointer moves by itself and wherever it goes, it thinks that's a command.
CF is still heavily used by professional level camera equipment - I now have to carry a seperate USB/CF reader. I do understand that the stand alone SD slot is intended more as storage expansion in the Linux models, but it could have been CF and achieved the same results. The universal slot will read SD, so why is the stand alone SD as well.
Runs forever on a charge, has decent processor performance all things considered - you wouldn't want to sequence DNA with it, but for most mundane tasks its great. The other is that it doesn't have a CF slot. This thing is fantastic.
It has two card readers built in, a universal that reads just about everything (except CF, understandably), and a second stand alone SD slot - how I wish this second slot were CF instead. No biggie, but it would have been nice to have CF capability built in. Get the "CaseCrown" bag for it.Only real downsides - the wireless switch is a spring loaded slider, kinda hard to use.
A nit.
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