Acer Aspire AS1410-8414 11.6-Inch Sapphire Blue Laptop - 6 Hour Battery Life Features
- Windows Vista Home Premium (SP 1), 6-cell Li-ion Battery (4400 mAh)
- Acer Crystal Eye Webcam, Intel WiFi Link 5100 802.11a/b/g/Draft-N, 1 HDMI port
- 2048MB DDR2 667MHz Memory, 250GB SATA Hard Drive
- 1.4GHz Intel Core2 Solo ULV SU3500 Processor
Price: $789.99
User Reviews about Acer Aspire AS1410-8414 11.6-Inch Sapphire Blue Laptop - 6 Hour Battery Life
Bought it from Amazon last late Nov.
. Was happy with the small size, portability, & performance.
. The build-in speakers dead after 9 months, looks like bad audio chipset or thermal trip-off. Once a while it works a few minutes, normally it is totally dead.
-- Speaker dead!
I bought the aspire 1410-8414 11.6" after quite extensive reserch (including some helpful comments on this thread), considering other sizes, models and companies and comparing prices. Roughly six months later I am very happy with it - the hardware displays no problems whatsoever, keyboard screen and functioning are fine and it performs better than I expected.
It has a netbook's size and weight but is better than a netbook as far as performance, handles surfing and multiple windows very well and has great battery life. The 11.6" frame is quite good regarding both screen and keyboard, and the touch pad is good with useful tapping tools, though at home I still prefer to work with a larger screen, keyboard and mouse. I already had a desktop at home when I bought it, but if I didn't I'd feel comfortable using my 1410 as a desktop (for my needs, which are mostly net surfing and writing).
One knock on it is that, at least when I got it, it only came with Vista installed, which obviously slowed it down. I tried installing Ubuntu Netbook Edition (having never used Ubuntu before) and ran into some serious problems, but fortunately a friend had a paid copy of Windows 7 to spare and installed it for me, which made its performance much, much better than with Vista. See if you can get it with 7 or at least XP, or maybe try going the Ubuntu way though I personally wasn't successful with that.
Something I wasn't sure about when I bought it is whether it has bluetooth or not. Mine doesn't, even though it has a bluetooth symbol on it, which is fine by me as I don't use it anyway.
Overall for this kind of money I think this is a great little computer to buy. -- Bought this model following quite extensive research and am very happy with it
It's small and lightweight, but the screen is bigger than a netbook. The keyboard and trackpad is comfortable to use. And the CPU can play Flash videos and games fine, unlike the slow Atom you find in most netbooks. I used to use a somewhat larger first gen macbook, but I've switched to using this laptop 100% of the time. And it cost me half as much as a macbook. It's a popular laptop, so if you look around you can find some cool decals to protect and personalize this model. -- ideal laptop for mobility
I purchased this laptop December of 2009. I went from a 4 year old 15.6 inch screen HP laptop to this Acer and I had my doubts, especially about performance and screen size but I felt I needed something a bit more portable for my college classes. Despite my concerns, I was not disappointed and extremely glad that I didn't buy another $1000 laptop.
- Screen is vivid, bright and incredibly sharp so the size really was not an issue as I thought it would be.
- Despite comments about not being able to differentiate the touch pad well from the rest of the computer, it really was not an issue and the touch pad is great with the multi gesture zooming and such.
- I'm able to run videos off of Fancast, Hulu, Youtube and Netflix perfectly, even the HD stuff. I often connect the laptop to my TV through the HDMI port and play movies on my TV without a problem. If you have a problem doing any of this, it might be the internet more so than the laptop. We have FIOS in our house.
-I got the free upgrade and Windows 7 makes all the difference. I absolutely hated Vista. So far, the computer has not froze on me or done anything weird.
-The chiclet style keyboard takes just a tiny bit of getting used to but after getting used to it, I absolutely loved it and now I can't type properly on my boyfriends laptop which has the "normal" keys that laptops usually come with.
-The laptop keeps relatively cool and I don't find myself needing a cooling pad very often.
-Multi tasking between a whole lot of office applications, surfing the web and listening to online music doesn't seem to slow the computer down much.
- The only con I can think of is that sometimes you are not able to adjust the screen brightness or the volume using the keyboard but you can still do it on the computer. A restart always fixes this little problem.
All in all, a great investment at about $400 -- Worthy Investment
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