Acer Aspire AS5740-5749 Review Best Notebook Value Acer Customer Service Sucks
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I just got a brand new laptop, an Acer Aspire AS5740-5749 15.6″ Notebook featuring Windows 7 which I absolutely love and is a night and day improvement over my previous XP Toshiba Tecra A8-S8513 Notebook. In my opinion at around $695 the Acer Aspire AS5740-5749 is the Best Notebook Value one will find. This is a mixed review though as the Acer Computer Company in my opinion is a bunch of Rip Off Scam Artists and the worst company I have ever dealt with in my life. More about that later.
The Acer Aspire AS5740-5749 is easily the fastest notebook/laptop I’ve ever had and the internal speakers are the best laptop speakers I ever heard, albeit that still doesn’t make them fantastic considering that internal laptop speakers suck but the sound of the Acer Aspire AS5740-5749 is decent and high on the food chain of internal laptop speakers. I can play rock CDs and mp3 files and watch DVDs and videos and the sound is a decent representation of what I would hear on my home audio system though not in the league of a home/audio video system. Windows 7 is so much better and easier to use then XP, its not funny. I’m fairly computer literate and it took me about 3 days to get the hang of Windows 7 but it is a vast improvement over XP. My internet surfing also seems faster and its easier to multitask as I can now for example run at the same time a registry scan and a virus scan on 2 different programs which for whatever reason I couldn’t do before. My favorite feature of Windows 7 though is that by the far right hand corner next to the clock is there is now a small black box which when you click it immediately puts you on the desktop screen! I can also play blu-ray discs on the Acer Aspire AS5740-5749 and the picture and sound is excellent. My boot up and shut down time is very fast and the shut down time is just a few short seconds while on my previous computer it took several annoying minutes. I don’t know if this is all due to the Acer Aspire AS5740-5749 Intel Core i3-330M(2.13GHz) or Windows 7 or both, but the improvement is startling. The notebook is very light and so light in fact that when I open up the latch to pull up the monitor screen I need to hold down the notebook body (the source area by the keypad) which is no problem. The Acer Aspire AS5740-5749 is very nice looking cosmetically. The keys on the keyboard are flat and large and took me about 5 days to get used to- at first it was very uncomfortable and I kept making typing errors but around the fifth day I felt very comfortable with it. Apparently Acer makes all they keyboards on their new laptops this way.
Here are the Acer Aspire AS5740-5749 Tech Specs:
Brand Acer
Series Aspire
Model AS5740-5749
Part# LX.PM902.053
General
Operating System Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
CPU Type Intel Core i3-330M(2.13GHz)
Screen 15.6″
Memory Size 4GB DDR3
Hard Disk 320GB
Optical Drive BD Combo
Graphics Card Intel HD
Communication Modem, Gigabit LAN and WLAN
Battery Life 4.0 hours
Dimensions 15.10″ x 9.90″ x 1.03″ - 1.50″
Weight 6.16 lbs.
CPU
CPU Type Intel Core i3
CPU Speed 330M(2.13GHz)
Chipset
Chipset Intel HM55
Display
Screen Size 15.6″
Wide Screen Support Yes
Resolution 1366 x 768
LCD Features Acer CineCrystal Technology
Operating Systems
Operating System Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Graphics
GPU/VPU Intel HD
Graphic Type Integrated Card
Hard Drive
HDD 320GB
HDD RPM 5400rpm
HDD Interface SATA
Memory
Memory 4GB
Memory Speed DDR3 1066
Memory Type 204-Pin DDR3 SO-DIMM
Max Memory Supported 8GB
Optical Drive
Optical Drive Type BD Combo
Optical Drive Interface Integrated
Optical Drive Spec 4X Blu-ray Disc/DVD-Super Multi double-layer drive
Read: 24X CD-ROM, 24X CD-R, 24X CD-RW, 8X DVD-ROM, 8X DVD±R, 8X DVD-ROM DL (double-layer), 6X DVD±R DL, 8X DVD±RW, 5X DVD-RAM, 4X BD-ROM, 4X BD-R, 2X BD-RE, 4X BD-ROM DL, 4X BD-R DL, 2X BD-RE DL
Write: 24X CD-R, 16X CD-RW, 8X DVD±R, 6X DVD±RW, 5X DVD-RAM, 4X DVD±R DL
Communications
Modem V.92 56K
LAN 10/100/1000Mbps
WLAN 802.11b/g/Draft-N
Ports
USB 4
Video Port 1 x VGA, 1 x HDMI
Audio Ports Yes
Audio
Audio True 5.1 Channel Surround Sound Output
3rd Generation Dolby Home Theater Audio Enhancement, featuring Dolby Digital Live, Dolby Pro Logic IIx, Dolby Headphone, Dolby Natural Bass, Dolby Sound Space Expander, Dolby Audio Optimization, Dolby High Frequency Enhancer Technologies
High Definition Audio Support
Built-in Microphone
Speaker Two Built-in Stereo Speakers
Input Device
Touchpad Multi-gesture Touchpad (Circular-motion scrolling, pinch-action zoom, page flip)
Keyboard Standard
Supplemental Drive
Card Reader Multi-in-1 Digital Media Card Reader
Secure Digital (SD), MultiMediaCard (MMC), Memory Stick (MS), Memory Stick PRO (MS PRO), xD-Picture Card (xD)
Webcam Yes
Power
Battery 6-Cell Lithium-Ion (4400 mAh)
Battery Life 4.0 hours
Physical spec
Dimensions 15.10″ x 9.90″ x 1.03″ - 1.50″
Weight 6.16 lbs
The Acer Computer Company A Bunch of Scam Arrogant Rip Off Idiots in My Opinion
For as much as I love the Acer Aspire AS5740-5749 15.6″ Notebook, the Acer Computer Company in my personal opinion is the worst company I’ve ever dealt with in my life and they ripped me off for almost $120 with what I believe to be a total scam. I had a problem with the Auto run function (the function that plays a CD or DVD immediately once you put it in the “D” drive) and instead of these idiots at Acer just telling me to reset the Notebook to the original factory settings- mind you I had told them I had just gotten the laptop 3 days ago, their cheap contracted out service in India I believe consisting of people who in my opinion don’t even grasp the concept of Windows 7, after wasting my time for over a half an hour directed me to their Second Line Technical Help. They of course didn’t tell me when they gave me the Second Line Phone Number- I did find it very strange they didn’t transfer me, that there would be a charge of $59.95 each half hour. Click here for the full detailed story of My Awful Experience with Acer Computers Customer Service
The bottom line is instead of just advising me to reset the computer to the factory settings, they ultimately charged me close to $120 to tell me that! I’ve filed a credit card dispute as a result. Their lousy Warranty apparently doesn’t cover Software which is like a woman telling you after you’ve married her that she won’t have sex! In fairness, several other people have told me other Computer Companies are also not covering software and not giving out software assistance any more.
So the bottom line is the Acer Aspire AS5740-5749 15.6″ Notebook is a great laptop notebook for the price, $692 and presents best notebook value but the Acer Computer Company is one of the worst companies in the world in my opinion. Please check out our large Online Discount Gift Store Click Here and our other Online Discount Stores below which helps support this politically incorrect blog. Thank you.
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