Acer Aspire AS1410-8414 11.6-Inch Sapphire Blue Laptop – 6 Hour Battery Life

Computer Technology and Software

January 18th, 2010 by admin

1.4GHz Intel Core2 Solo ULV SU3500 Processor
2048MB DDR2 667MHz Memory, 250GB SATA Hard Drive
Acer Crystal Eye Webcam, Intel WiFi Link 5100 802.11a/b/g/Draft-N, 1 HDMI port
Windows Vista Home Premium (SP 1), 6-cell Li-ion Battery (4400 mAh)
11.6" HD WXGA Acer CrystalBrite LED-backlit Display, Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD

Product Description
Acer® Aspire AS1410-8414 Notebook comes with these specs: Intel® Centrino® Mobile Processor Technology- Intel® Core™2 Solo Processor ULV SU3500, Windows Vista® Home Premium with Service Pack 1, 11.6" HD WXGA Acer CrystalBrite™ LED-backlit Display, Mobile Intel® GS45 Express Chipset, 2048MB DDR2 667MHz Memory, Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD, 250GB SATA Hard Drive, Acer Crystal Eye Webcam, Multi-in-1 Digital Media Card Reader, Dolby Sound Room® ... More >>

Acer Aspire AS1410-8414 11.6-Inch Sapphire Blue Laptop - 6 Hour Battery Life

5 Responses

g2010a writes:
January 18th, 20102:41 pmat

I’ve had time to play with the computer now (more than 3 weeks) and I’ve grown quite fond of it.
PROS:
-It has the perfect size, the keyboard is great when typing, and it runs very quietly (!!).
-I upgraded the RAM to 3GB and only Java-based applications and Colinux seem to run slow.
-Video is watchable, although I occasionally notice hiccups while watching live TV with an external adapter (DVB-T).
-The battery life is great.
-The touchpad works just fine and once you get used to the scrolling gestures you can move through documents very easily. I never really use the other gestures.

CONS:
-I am ambivalent towards the camera and special drivers. . . it does what it says–brightening the image so other can see you indoors at night with low light–but it keeps freezing the video on Skype. The work-around is to regularly interrupt the video stream and start it again, otherwise other people see only a static image of you.
-Once you remove the protective plastic sheet from the cover you will never ever ever see it clean again. Every speck of dust and bit of finger-grease will stick to it.

All in all, I recommend it very highly and would purchase it again. Acer hasn’t let me down yet.
Rating: 4 / 5
T. Wu writes:
January 18th, 20105:06 pmat

If you try to install Ubuntu on it, you will be very disappointed like me: blank screen for duo boot, and “Grub error 22″ for stand alone installation, most important, you won’t be able to roll back to factory status if you did not burn a lifesaver CD using your own external CD-ROM before you want to change anything.
Rating: 1 / 5
Mr. Edmond W. L. Lee writes:
January 18th, 20107:11 pmat

FYI,
To the last reviewer, a I7 desktop is NOT “A” desktop. It is a very powerful Intel Core 7 system that is used in gaming and graphically intensive applications. I DON’T think these reviews are fake, however, who knows- maybe we never really landed on the moon (studio special effects). Maybe Michael Jackson, Bruce Lee, Elvis, Tupac, and Lucille Ball are waiting on a Carribean Island awaiting a time when our vastly degenerated society will once again appreciate the merits of their God-given talents
Rating: 5 / 5
O. Elmore writes:
January 18th, 20109:23 pmat

The best description of it is that it’s what a netbook should be but not a fully-functioned laptop. The worst description is that it’s a failed gimmick. Acer tried but the result is a device that is probably over-powered for its size; the individual components aren’t supported by the just-as-important infrastructure tying the components together. I had to send mine back; the heatsink clattered to beat the band whenever the graphics setup (which includes more than the card itself) worked even the least bit hard. The wi-fi may be in name a draft-N but it dropped constantly only two rooms away from my router. And it’s an ugly little device; the top seems to be from one computer and the bottom from another, as if someone put a hamburger bun top on a sliced-bread bottom. You could not call the video a moving picture – instead it was a series of stuttering still images. I think Netflix was reading a more capable graphics setup and so was sending a higher-quality video signal than the machine could actually handle. I’m not certain of that, but I am certain that he result was a worse, less-watchable picture than my Asus netbook. Sorry to be the party-pooper but this was my experience.
Rating: 2 / 5
User writes:
January 18th, 201011:51 pmat

Update (9/22/09): Received a replacement unit fast (thank you Amazon) – no hardware issues. Installed additional 2 GB of RAM and rebuilt with MS Vista Business. Used for work – have VMware server running. For business purposes great little machine. My current rating – 4 stars (One star lost due to quality control missing defective headphone jack).
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Received today – defective out of the box. Internal speaker works only when headphones are plugged in. Waiting for a replacement unit.
Rating: 1 / 5