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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.

yay cs: source now im gonna <3 it.
Anyway, u use the touchpad for gaming n such.wow, as soon as i buy it im hooking up my 5$ logitech mouse onto it
good luck, on returning it.. I think NCIX has free RMA Shipping if ur a VIP (i am!) if not its cheap, and acer always recieves and sends borked laptops.

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.

Ok.lol
anyway, how is the speakers on the front? the two of them..
and is there any subwoofer on bottom or any other speakers?

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

Lol..wow u got Winamp too..I even got Winamp PRO.lol
rocks. especially the Additional Screen plugins..

ok..damn..hmm now i gotta buy those effin Logitech Z-530 5.1 speakers... :P

I bought the following for around £945 (bargain for the spec I think):
5652WLMI

Nvidia 7600 geforce go 256mb (faster than the ATI x1400 I believe, though may be wrong).

It has all the other features,

15.4" widescreen mon
5*1 memory card reader
1 gig ddr2 ram
100 gb hdd
1.66ghz centrino duo processor
wifi a/b/g, bluetooth
digital/analog tv tuner (though the supplied aerial is not much cop)
dual layer DVD burner
4 usb2 ports, firewire + 2 video out ports (do not knwo if it can drive two external screens + the internal one (unlikely))


It is the first laptop I have bought for ages (use a dell latitude at work). Definitely nice to play world fo warcraft in bed and games on the train.

I can play WOW maxed out graphics, distance etc. I also play elder scrolls iv, though definitely not on high settings. Does not look as good as my desktop (SLI 7800 GTX 256, 2 gig ram, athlon x" 4800+, 24" Acer widescreen monitor), but plays well.

I would definitely recommend this laptop as a mid-range piece of kit capable of playing games (though only old game on max graphics).

The resolution is not great 1280*800, but is usable. Great for watching movies, though the supplied DVD playback software is not great (acer arcade).

BAttery does not last long whilst playign games, though have not timed it yet. Will update when I have.

The screen is reflective, which is fine, but I prefer the matt screens (work laptop has matt).

w0rd
im gonna w8 to move (in july) to get meself a good amp and speakers.tell me what you think of the z530 if oyu get them.

mutedtele : what kind of screen did it come with? also its cheaper because you only got 1 gig ram. but the 7600 is definately better for gaming. but for all video editing i think the x1000 generatiojn is slightly better.

The screen is 15" widescreen. res is just about ok, 1280*800.

I am looking to upgrade the ram, bu seems quite expensive to do so (at least £150).

i meant 15.4". same as yours I think.

I was thinking of getting this model for my son (18) who is a gamer. He plays (as far I as I know Call of Duty) and wondering if this brand is worthy of such a feet? Maybe HP or Tosiba is better?

It is definitely ok for games, though it is not a high-end gamers laptop. If his primary purpose is to play games, I would go for something with a geforce go 7800 or above in it (or ati 1800).

That said, the size of the high-end laptops are very large. Too large to easily transport. The graphics in this are mid-range, but defuinitely ok to play 3d games. I am running a very new and intensive game on it called elder scrolls iv. I cannot set it to maximum, but can run it at a good graphical level. For the price (about £940 on the internet), it is a great laptop.

The Acer brand is pretty good. They have a great range of laptops, so you may want to take a look at their website www.acer.com

Buying a different brand is ok too, just be sure it has at least a ge force go 7600 card or an ati x1600 (bit better than 7600) card inside. Good luck!

Yeah, if ur looking for a pure-gaming,etc computer look at Alienware and Sager...they got really good stuff for gaming,etc but like he said there pretty big, overral this acer is ok for the casual gamer, but is good/slim for everything else...Personally id advise the ASUS W3J when it comes out..(better than the Acer,but same specs about) its 1,799.99% at proportable.com

hmm id really recommend this lappy for your kid if 1500$ is the price youre looking to pay. it runs w3, WoW, css perfectly with full eyecandy. as for FEAR and other newer games, ive hear dit runs them good on medium settings.
the only problem i see is the fact that acer did a halfassed job building this thing. ive had so many manufacturing errors im sending it back on wednesday.
the other con is the software delivered with it and the 2 FAT32 partitions, but thats nothing a windows xp pro cd cant fix.

hehe just had to post to make it an even 100 posts total