acerAspire 3 A315-58-74KE Slim Laptop | 15.6" Full HD Display | Intel Core i7-1165G7 Processor | Intel Iris Xe Graphics | 8GB DDR4 | 512GB PCIe Gen4 SSD | Wi-Fi 6 | Windows 11 Home | Pure Silver

good little laptop, fast enough to run my trading apps on 2 desktops without any delay. good value for what I needed. easy to use.

There is zero control for fans under linux, and the default, bios driven fan control is very, very over-exuberant in terms of cooling. From the moment you perform the simpliest task, the fans come on, stay on, and lord help you if you decide to do anything CPU intensive.I've owned a lot of laptops over the years, and a lot of Acer laptops. The prior generation of this Aspire model had zero fan noise most of the time. And it is 100% on Acer's lap here, as they prevent any form of real control in the bios, and further, decided to be over aggressive re: cooling.Quite literally, CPUs at 40C are not hot, yet the fans are blaring.The keyboard? Wow. Just beyond terrible. For starters, for absolutely no reason, they moved keys around. The delete key is now an overstretch above delete, moved to there the 'home' key used to be. The up/down arrow keys have much less height, and are basically randomly responsive due to their tiny nature.These are *primary keys*, used in consoles, for editing documents, used all the time! Primary keys here!And the entire space-bar role is smaller height wise, making the space bar itself more finikity, more apt to not register randomly, for left/right edge hits are more difficult to hit center mass. It's a disaster.There is even some weird lag when coming off of shift, so that when typing quickly, shift is 'sticky', resulting in shift events that should not happen. EG, there is a 10ms or some such delay in shift realising it has been released.There are even double type events on all keys, again due to the horrible, chicklet keyboard feel.If you are a sysadmin, or type a lot, RUN AWAY from this laptop. You won't be happy here, at all.Did I mention the keyboard sucks? Just wanted to make that clear, the KEYBOARD SUCKS!Why Acer? WHY?!

Update: I was using my system yesterday and everything was fine. I came into my office this morning and the system is dead. No idea whether I will be able to get it replaced, but 3.5 months of usage is NOT acceptable. I'm back on my 5 year old Windows 10 system for now:-(I have a couple of older laptops running Win10 that can’t be upgraded to Win 11 so I figured I’d look for something on Prime days. This turned out to be a nice fit and reasonably priced. With One Drive and Drop Box I was able to set up and have access to everything I needed fairly quickly. Luckily I had install disks for most of my application software. On the downside, the speakers are not that great and it is big compared to my 13” notebook (I travel so fitting it into my backpack correctly is more critical so it doesn’t get damaged). Overall it does the job.

I cannot get a 2nd charger!!!!! This makes things inconvient. Als windows 11 is ripe with popups and windows 11 always want me to send things up to the cloud which makes my computer not private.

I had acers in the past and loved them but this one is AWFUL and I WOULD LIKE A REFUND. I would get another Acer, but not this slow version with an awful screen.

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