Acer Aspire 5517

price, performance, usability, sound, screen

portability, size, durability

83% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

Affordable. Sturdy construction. Nice 15.6-inch display

Sluggish performance. Short on features. Bloatware

The Acer Aspire 5517-1643 is a cheap 15 inch notebook, and not surprisingly, it performs like one. Still, it's a good deal for cash-strapped students or anyone looking for a solidly built mainstream portable that'll handle the basics.

price was good when I purchase this laptop

slow on pretty much everything from loading to open the softwars

Upgrading this to a dual core...search for the manual on Google, don't ask Acer for it, they will lie to you, I have email proof if needed. Dual core upgrades work fine, and in some cases run cooler if you use better thermal paste. I've done this with...

Plastic frame w/o reinforcement(you get what you pay for) ; TF20 is a joke, why bother, AMD should drop them altogether ; 3g of ram + 32bit install for a 64bit chip is some old thinking, and needs to die as well ; Acer support - I don't want to go into...

I got this with the intention of doing the dual core upgrade, which was a bit more than I bargained for but worked out in the end. Total +1 on being more like 2 hours than 45 minutes but I suppose I could do it in 40 now. That said it appears there are...

Better deals on newegg for better equipped acers and other brands as well

This laptop does every basic thing you need it to: web browsing, light gaming, and word processing. The keyboard is quite good, very responsive. the screen is impressive, very nice contrast

Bloatware, relatively small hard drive for a regular computer, hi res videos are choppy, speakers a little quiet. The processor is a little slow when multitasking, but meh

It all worked when it arrived. Decent laptop for the price. Comes with windows 7 64bit. Got it from Newegg and their service has always been right on

Battery gets hot after about 5 minutes. Life is poor. SLOW. Guess i am spoiled with faster CPU's. It may be just my laptop but the mouse pointer randomly jumps to wherever, has serious lag, and will randomly hi-lite sections of a page. Also while...

came with slightly faster proc 2.0 not 1.6

came with a smaller HD 140g not 160g

This computer is a beauty if you are looking for a cheap computer to upgrade. With the HDD space, graphics, and ram, this is one decent computer. The bottleneck is the CPU, which fortunately is easy to access ;...

CPU is slow, only 2 USB ports

If you are wanting a Laptop and don't have much money to spend this would be a good choice. It runs pretty good and does what it should as a basic laptop should. Comes with Windows 7 premium

Well here it is...the screen could tilt back a little more to allow for better viewing. The keyboard layout is not your standard layout.The keys are spaced too far apart and are offset to the left side making it like learning to type again. It comes...

Nice battery life

Touchpad is finicky and sometimes quits completely, forcing me to restart. Get a USB mouse