Thinking of ordering for stepsister. She's very computer illiterate. Only get mail and play facebook games. Memory hogs. Will laptop work 4 this?
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This laptop will be great for what she needs it for. I use it for multiple email accounts, work projects, and social media. It's a good choice!
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Yes, absolutely. Awesome computer. Also please read the reviews, it's a great laptop.
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In searching the ACER site, adding RAM is not supported. Hence, voiding warrantee if I opened the case. Agree with the others that 1 or 2 Gb is not a big difference. I only encountered sluggishness if doing a lot of surfing. E-mail, no problem. Games, no problem. So I just use this unit for on the road e-mail and light shopping. Heavy shopping will encounter some slow down. I purchased Norton 360 and periodically clean out the temporary files and cookies, etc. That did a lot to improve speed.
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yes... I believe so, but it really is a horrible machine. It comes with 4 gig of ram, which barely runs windows. I also had to send in to get mother board replaced, and I still had memory problems. They gave me an additional 4 gig of ram and it helped marginally. But if I opened more than 4 browsers, I would get a message saying I need to close programs. If I did not close programs the browsers would crash. They now want me to buy 16 gigs of ram, which I am waiting to hear back if they will provide free of charge, which I am not hopeful they will do. For a modern laptop, it performs like a windows 95 vintage computer...... Would HIGHLY not recommend buying this machine. yes... I believe so, but it really is a horrible machine. It comes with 4 gig of ram, which barely runs windows. I also had to send in to get mother board replaced, and I still had memory problems. They gave me an additional 4 gig of ram and it helped marginally. But if I opened more than 4 browsers, I would get a message saying I need to close programs. If I did not close programs the browsers would crash. They now want me to buy 16 gigs of ram, which I am waiting to hear back if they will provide free of charge, which I am not hopeful they will do. For a modern laptop, it performs like a... » Read More yes... I believe so, but it really is a horrible machine. It comes with 4 gig of ram, which barely runs windows. I also had to send in to get mother board replaced, and I still had memory problems. They gave me an additional 4 gig of ram and it helped marginally. But if I opened more than 4 browsers, I would get a message saying I need to close programs. If I did not close programs the browsers would crash. They now want me to buy 16 gigs of ram, which I am waiting to hear back if they will provide free of charge, which I am not hopeful they will do. For a modern laptop, it performs like a windows 95 vintage computer...... Would HIGHLY not recommend buying this machine. « Show Less
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Hello Micheal, this laptop is not idle for gaming. Don't get me wrong, it will handle games extremely well at low settings but forget about extreme. But for the price, its more than idle. However, if you can shell out a little more then get this HP dv6-6c50us (15.6-Inch Screen) Laptop and upgrade your ram with this Corsair Vengeance Laptop Memory Kit 16 GB (2x8 GB) DDR3 1600MHz CL10 PC3 12800 (CMSX16GX3M2A1600C10), I assure you will get one powerful budget laptop all for around 800 bucks, with a bluray combo drive as an added bonus. This combo will give you a windows experience index rating of 6.4 and 7.5 for gaming graphics and memory operations respectively. Note the max WEI rating is 7.9, so do the maths, believe me $1800 laptops don't have such ratings. Hope this helps.
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my friend plays LoL on the highest settings possible, i also have an extra 4 gb's of RAM, but it can definitely play Lol on high. I dont have WoW so i can't say if it can handle it or not. This laptop can also play battlefield 3 on medium and Star Wars the Old Republic on low settings.
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Yes however the size isn't going to effect your gaming experience, the speed will. A solid state would be your best bet. Acer has a restore utility that you can backup the entire os to a USB drive and restore to a new drive
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No, from what I read before purchasing, the memory is soldered to the motherboard. It's a great laptop, but honestly, if you NEED 8gigs, you should probably be looking into a different laptop anyway. I can't imagine anything you might use this laptop for anything that would require more ram given that the processor wouldn't really be suited best for those types of computer work.
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Definitely not. There's so much packed into such a limited computer that watching videos is pretty impossible. Gaming depends on the game. The more advanced, the harder it is to use. School work works just fine for me, however.(:
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Pretty straight forward if you have built a PC before. Just need to make absolutely sure you order the right notebook memory and SSD drive that work with it. Happy to help you with that. You also need to know how to load an operating system from a flash drive. scanseattle@gmail.com
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The short answer is no. Mine came with 750 meg of ram and I had to upgrade that just to run the programs for my job. Its good for word processing and basic web surfing but I don't think it would be good for games.
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I honestly don't know for sure, but I use it to play Guild Wars 2 on it, so I want to say yes, you should check the minimum req. for the games
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I never tried, but I doubt it. The PC Processor cannot even load Firefox 4 or moderately recent Abode programs. It's a good system to check google email and type papers (once you install Microsoft Office).
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Absolutely, give it few GB of ram and a proper mSata SSD, you're good to go.
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I would not recommend this computer for those uses. I did upgrade it to 8GB.
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Most games rely mainly on processor power and seeing that this laptop has an AMD 2.7 GHz it should run most modern games at high (maybe not extreme) settings. Not to mention the turbo boost which activates automatically when needed. 4 GB of ram is the average amount needed to run most games today so it should be fine, however I personally recommend upgrading it to 8 GB when you get it. You can do this yourself or bring it to a computer shop.
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I play runescape and other games on it for 10 to 12 hours a day. If your going to play anything higher end I would suggest if you got it to put more ram in then 6gb otherwise I havent had too many issues with games. I do facebook, sims3, runescape, tera online, and a few other mmorpg games.