HP TouchSmart. Touch the future now.
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5.0 stars
"Great Laptop Great Price, Overall great purchase"
Pros: Huge screen, no problems what so ever, 2nd hard drive bay available.
Cons: Acer website
Summary: I have read multiple reviews some good some bad but I got this at a great price and decided to give it a try and if I did not like it in 2 weeks I was going to return it to the seller.
Well I am glad I decided to get it. The reasons:
1. Huge 18" crystal clear screen. Watched a few movies on it with the build in blu-ray and the picture is amazing, Sound was good also, but I would have though I would be able to put it at a higher level but it is still sufficient.
2. Taking the back panel is a matter of 5-6 phillips screws and then you have access to a second sata hard drive bay that is empty. I bought a 60GB solid state disk and copied the windows drive (the system comes with 2 partitions, one operating system, one data). Then I made the SSD drive the primary and booted the system with that drive. It nows turns on amazinging fast (it was fast out of the box) but now it rivals the mac's startup.
3. The windows scores are all 5.9 and 5.6 with memory being the lowest at 5.1 (DDR2 - memory). I run the test through PCpitstop that compares systems and this laptop ranked at the top 3% and considering a prive of around $1k this is great.
4. You get lot of software through ACER that are loaded in the computer, some are good some are junk and I removed the ones that I did not find useful without any problems.
I have used it now for a week with out any issues. battery lasts about 1.5-2 hrs but considering it powers an 18" screen this is pretty good. This is a large laptop and is more of a replacement for a desktop. You can hault this around but this is not what this laptop is intended for. If you are on the move all the time I would recommend staying with a 15.4 laptop but if you are looking for a desktop replacement and want something that is portable this is obe of the best systems around when you compare price versus performance. It even comes with a remote control so you can sit back and enjoy a blu ray movie and control the laptop with the remote.
Overall I have to say that this exceeded my expectations. It also comes with 3 yr warranty.
