travellingman514
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Hi,
I bought this model at the IT show, quite a good deal. The specs seemed quite reasonable, had 8GB RAM, dedicated video, numerous ports including LAN, VGA, USB3 and HDMI. Much to my surprise, it was incredibly slow, with CPU utilization constantly at 80% or higher. Dragging windows or copying files unresponsive. The AMD A8 specs were roughly equivalent to the I5.
I tried BIOS update, reinstall and called Acer support. They were quite responsive.
I was able to return it for refund to Harvey Norman, to my surprise.
It seems there is some issues with this model, since only on the market for a few months.
Had 8.1 installed and the written docs were for 8.1.
I am thinking of getting Asus x302 or Acer S7 at the next show.
David Papkin
http://www.yatedo.com/davidpapkin
http://davidpapkin.org
http://davidpapkin.azurewebsites.net
https://davidpapkin.net
http://travellingman.net
I bought this model at the IT show, quite a good deal. The specs seemed quite reasonable, had 8GB RAM, dedicated video, numerous ports including LAN, VGA, USB3 and HDMI. Much to my surprise, it was incredibly slow, with CPU utilization constantly at 80% or higher. Dragging windows or copying files unresponsive. The AMD A8 specs were roughly equivalent to the I5.
I tried BIOS update, reinstall and called Acer support. They were quite responsive.
I was able to return it for refund to Harvey Norman, to my surprise.
It seems there is some issues with this model, since only on the market for a few months.
Had 8.1 installed and the written docs were for 8.1.
I am thinking of getting Asus x302 or Acer S7 at the next show.
David Papkin
http://www.yatedo.com/davidpapkin
http://davidpapkin.org
http://davidpapkin.azurewebsites.net
https://davidpapkin.net
http://travellingman.net
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