Acer Aspire 5672 Review

aight i finally got my acer 5670
i started ordering from Newegg.com but i had so many problems with my credit card that i ended up ordering from ncix.com. i now love them , i can even pay through my online banking so :P the only thing i can b!tch about is the fact that when i put the lappy on a table it didnt sit right, so i turn it over. and behold , the main cover was popped out. extremely weird. probably when they installed the ram they didnt put it back together right.
bad packaging



popped up cover



sooo nice. i love the crystalbrite (aka glossy) screen. here its playing milkdrop on winamp


that annoying cover on the card reader (ps no compactflash)


the amazing viewing angles




the only bad angle is from top (prolly because of cristal orientation)

and here the shortcut buttons (programmable) mine are setup for openoffice/winamp/firefox/steam


the windows media player buttons (im trying to get them to work for winamp. can any1 help?)


and finally the whoe lappy lovely just lovely

i power it up. this machine boots up soo fast ( compared to my oldass desktop lol)
skip throught the whole windows settings part :P
sofar i havent run any tests, only installed firefox and codecs and openoffice. i cant do too much for now cause i got finals these two weeks.

for now all i can say is:
pros :
- beautifull, just beautifull
- build is good.
- great battery life : 3-3.5 hours
- not too heavy
- the webcam is very nice under good lighting. when you turn the option for low lighting the cam is extremely slow so i turned it off (default on)
- cs:s with full eyecandy runs great
- i love the screen ooo so glossy (this might be a con for some pple as it reflects a hell of a lot)
- multitasking on this baby is a cinch. i run mildrop (winamp vis) on desktop mode, while dlding, transferring large folders, and burning a cd. without a pb

cons
- the wifi and bluetooth buttons on the front are oddly loose but work
- the little cover on the card reader is so freaking anoying. you pulll it out and it hangs by a little rubber end, so ill prolly just rip it out
- even when not playing the right side gets pretty hot.
- the touchpad acts up on its own and rightclicks when it freaking wants to. im gonna have to see that (anyine else have this problem?) it also oddly heat up as the cpud and northbridge are right underneath
- the keyboard flexes a hell of a lot. but heard many pple say this
- THIS THING GETS HOOOT!!!! i wouldnt recommend using it on your lap for too long
- acer programs
- comes with 2 partitions in......FAT32 !!!!!
- blowhole on the right side makes your hand sweat when using a mouse
- sofar havent been able to configure the media keys for winamp.

im sorry bout this poor review but im no laptop expert (desktop forever before this beauty)
i also forgot i dont have a winxp cd anymore and this didnt come with one, so ima ask a friend to mail me one. and then ill format the freaking FAT32 freaking two partition drive






Well, I've had this acer for almost 18 months now.
My main change to the ratings was a lowering of the build quality. The carcass of the beast squeaks (especially the sides) when lifting or moving the whole or closing the screen. Worst of all, I have a huge red racing stripe down the screen starting right under the webcam (I'lll take a picture when I get my camera back). My warranty ran out so I am going to try to fix it myself.

Overall I'm pretty let down by the overall life of the laptop. It ages badly.
The other update

so far havent done much more. just reinstalled realtek drivers. im waiting for the winxp cd to get here to rredo everything especially the crappy partitionning.
another issue im having is with the middle scroll thingy. it wont work for scrolling up and down. i programmed the side to side to go back/forward in internet and that works just fine. did you get yours to work for scrolling in firefox?

holly toasted bread batman!!!!!!!
i just noticed something horribly wrong. on the right side of the screen the frame is stickking out by 2-3 mm !!!!!! and theres a piece of plastick between the frame and the lcd. freaking manufacturing errors. im on hold with acer right now to tell them this and that the lappy came with the bottom cover popped up and no windows cd.

rofl for sure. i called them and they said just send it back. ill do it as soon as my exams are over cause i need it to type papers and stuff. oh and heres a picture of the gap between the screen (bezel is how you say it in english- im french lol) and the frame. thats as good quality i could get from that close up


thanx BOFH for being the only one to reply. this is my first review
i updated the review and added pics. my roomate lent me her nikon so their much better than the first ones.

bofh does your scroll thingy work in firefox?
i cant get it to work in anything. and also, can you configure the play/stop etc buttons on the left to control winamp?
and yeah human error sux

updated review a bit, made it a little cleaner

lol i live in montreal so yeah it didnt ship to the US. the bad thing about packaging is that they just put the acer box into a larger box with nothing in between. they shoulda put that foamy stuff in, or no extra box at all. but otherwise i was extremely satisfied with ncix. they got great selection, customer service is good, and the best is that there are many options for paying especially for canadians through internet banking. i like this cause i got no credit card so its anoying getting stuff on internet.
as for the camera its actually really good under good light. you have to take the low light booster as bofh said cause that makes it slow. it turns down only but a full 225 degrees.
here is a pic with a bunch of items so you can see the detail. this is under good daylight in 640x480 res:

the x1400 is great. runs W3 and cs source with full eyecandy perfectly. havent ried FEAR on it yet but i hear it runs well with decent settings. its great decoding video too.

This lappy is really starting to piss me off tho. besides the pb with the screen and the battery. i had another pb which i thought was minor. the piece of plastic between the keyboard and the touchpad was slightly curved upward. i didnt care much for that untill today. after a while of gaming the touchpad got really hot (as it does) but then i noticed the plastic getting more and more curved. when i stopped playing. the piece of plastic was actually detached from the touchpad on the upper right part. now when i push the top right corner of the touchpad it actually goes in by 2 milimeters or so, and i can stick my nail between the plastic and the touchpad. I am really strting to annoyed at acer for sending me an extremely badly built machine. im gonna send it back on friday cause i need it for my exams. well see how it goes. they should replace the whole thing cause thats just not right (4 manufacturing errors on one machine )
im not bashing on acer cause this is my first product from them. but this has me doubting a lot. hopefully their customer support is good enough to counterpart all these problems.
anyway thats the current situation for me. im also trying to resolve problems like windows getting hung every once in a while, and the touchpad doing whatever it freaking wants.
peace.

are you insane??? lol touchpad for cs source is like trying to play FEAR if youre blind lol. nah i hooked up my logitech mouse asap.
i was just saying that under normal windows usage the touchpad acts up and rightclicks whenever it freaking wants
as for sending back. i have to send it back to Acer panam.

hmm.
speakers are, well, laptop speakers. theyre alright. no bass at all tho which bums me out. im no expert on laptops, but ive heard better on my friends speakers. they dont have the subwoofer on the bottom.
i wasnt too worried about sound when looking for a laptop cause i use my headphones a lot (sexy sennhiser hd570). but when i tested with these headphones, the sound was really low on them, even on max volume. the only way to get it louder is in the realtek pannel where you can up the decibels (also doable in winamp). but this messes with the sound.
on smaller earphones the sound gets decently loud.
i guess you need usb sound for the good heaphones