Acer Aspire 5051AWXMi

I own around 10 laptops for my business of various makes and have used various makes of laptops over the years such as Hp, fujitsu, Asus, compaq, dell and going back to the IBM thinkpads many years ago and i have not had many problems with any of them. This is the first and LAST ACER, I have to say this is the poorest quality one i have ever had in the 10 or so years i have owned laptops it feels cheap, looks cheap and yes it was cheap lesson learned i will spend a few more quid next time. It developed a fault with the screen after only 4 months the screen developed lines down it, its hardly used this one becuase its quite slow. Phoned ACER first question they ...  Read the complete review

ACER aspire laptop - Introduction The acer aspire series 5050 laptops are budget laptops packed full of features and running microsoft vista operating system. Being basic entry level products they will not offer the fastest processors or the biggest displays and may not be the lightest of laptops but they will offer plenty of features and specifications to future proof the product and deliver excellent performance at an affordable price.I will list the specifications of this model of laptop and then list the benefits of these of these specs based on my personal experience of usingf this product and give a mark out of ten for each section to ...  Read the complete review

I've had this laptop for over a year now (A year and a half) and have encountered no significant problems whatsoever. Let me just fill in some detail here: I use this laptop for around 5 hours (usually more) every day. That's a lot of usage for a year and a half. I have gotten chocolate in the motherboard, cracked the plastic surrounding the screen in the bottom left corner so that it won't close properly (Quite hard to explain), and I have hoovered up exactly 6 keys from the keyboard while trying to clear it out. I run multiple programs (Firefox - 15 tabs, uTorrent, WinSCP, Mirc UPP, Windows Live messenger, NOD32, KeyScrambler, and Magic Disk is ...  Read the complete review

I've had my Acer for just over 16 months now and for over a year it's had a fault with the touchpad. I came back to it one day and every now and then it right clicks by itself and the actual left click button sometimes doesn't work. I've had to use a USB mouse since because the constantly appearing righ click menu is seriously annoying. I'm assuming it is just a fault with the touchpad itself, however I never wanted to bother Acer with it. It also came with an upgrade thing for Vista, and all I had to pay was less than £15 for the P&P. Well worth it, when Vista actually works. The laptop isn't the best in the world, but it was cheap and it ...  Read the complete review