# Opinions on Acer laptops? Need answer fast!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-on-acer-laptops-need-answer-fast/548290>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 28, 2010, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-on-acer-laptops-need-answer-fast/548290 "2010-07-28T10:47:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![kushiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2010, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-on-acer-laptops-need-answer-fast/548290/21 "2010-07-28T17:24:30Z")

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Bought an Acer back at Christmas 2007. Would still be ticking now if I hadn’t dropped it and messed up the screen\*. Speakers were lame, but a pair of cheap clip-on ones from Radio Shack fixed that.

\*At first, there appeared to be no damage. Then after a month the casing started to detach. Dad rigged up a way for the casing to stay together, screen survived for 2.5 months after that.

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**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_Doubt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7cd45c/32.png) [@Angel\_of\_Doubt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_Doubt)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2010, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-on-acer-laptops-need-answer-fast/548290/22 "2010-07-28T18:24:26Z")

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My Aspire 5000 got me through grad school and lot’s o number crunching, the little workhorse.

I just got the Gemstone Blue (7000-series something or other) and my only complaint is the hypersensitive touchpad. Also the volume suddenly rises for no reason at all, the icon appears on the screen even if I don’t have my hands on the laptop at all. it is beginning to bother me.

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