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Is this available in the USA?

I think rating of 81% is bit low for this notebook.

It's possibile mount a mSSD on mSATA port and install an Opereting System like Windows?

Annone knows if the battery is easily reaplaceable?

read the review...

QuoteThe battery can be replaced.

written under the picture of the battery on the right bar

Any chance this might ever release in North American markets (would be quite popular if it did). Not many brands offer IPS display with a good GPU at low price here. Even the frame is quite light for what it is.

Is it really so that that *all* of the display configurations are sold with an IPS panel?
I've seen the ones with the normal HD screen go for quite a bit less than the Full HD variants. I'm desperately looking for an affordable laptop with something better than a run-of-mill TN panel.

Does it run a lot cooler when the dedicated graphics are not in use?

Quote from: Stefano88 on August 17, 2013, 11:20:17
It's possibile mount a mSSD on mSATA port and install an Opereting System like Windows?

Yes, it should be pretty straight forward if you know how to install windows from a usb drive.

If I could find this in the USA  would buy it right now.

How´s the battery life with i7? Do you have any experiences?

I just bought it in singapore. Not fullhd though. i5 4200u, 750m 4gb dvram, 500 hdd, 8gb ram, 15.6". I am loving it

Notebookcheck different writer different oppinion . to me 2kg 15.6" , GT750 , battery life wifi 7-8 hours , palm rest so cool , this will be the notebook worth 95% . - 5% for who dont like Acer brand. although i never own one acer before.
palm rest max load 27c to 31c just get 63pts? to me its should 100pts. when u put ur palm at palm rest no more irritate heat issue.
connectivity low mark ? you expect the built in wifi give you 150 metre range? go get a alpha , you can go upto 1km-3km.
mouse pad? to me its just 2nd item after DVD to be remove from laptop.  its should pair with the BT big mouse for now day all end user.
Price at Malaysia its too high , RM2.8k  for me this should be the set sell at RM2.2k or even lower.

As someone who owns the predecessor to this notebook the M5 (comes with a 640M) it has its problems. Right now it is very hot, I cannot open it to clean it. It requires specials tools to open. The touchpad also stopped working, I believe water damage or condensation may have caused that. The keyboard used to type well but now it's just... poor. The keys feel like a cheap keyboard. I would actually consider buying the V5 given this review but when I think about the M5 here is why I wouldn't: it's too flimsy to survive my travel'ling lifestyle yet also very portable and well suited for it. I think it would be best to avoid the acer brand as these laptops just don't survive out in the wild that well. And when you are outside of the US how is the warranty going to help? I have to come to the conclusion that I need a laptop that is portable, mid-high gaming ready and sturdy. Acer is missing in the sturdy department.

Is there any way to get this in the US?  Or one like it?  I can't find it anywhere without a QWERTZ (German) keyboard (You can see it also in the picture on the article).  I know I can swap the keys in windows, but I'd like a QWERTY keyboard (I can't stand the small left shift key).

Quote from: Stefano88 on August 17, 2013, 11:20:17
It's possibile mount a mSSD on mSATA port and install an Opereting System like Windows?

It comes preloaded with Windows 8. If you want to install Windows 7 (or other OS) then you will need either a download installation or will need to buy an external DVD burner/player - there isn't one on this model; unlike the cheaper brother with the same specs but less Ram, more HD space, etc.

i have also bought one from bangladesh with core i5 and gt 720m.it is very good.

It has a free msata interface inside. I've already replaced the hdd with a ssd. If I want to dual-boot to windows will add later a msata ssd. The battery is non standard, li-polimer. So replacement should be found only from acer. Love the screen. Using it now with Ubuntu 12.13. The nvidia video card is not accesible by default in Ubuntu, need to install various stuff to make it work, and I do not bother.

There's some discrepancy in the reported dimensions. In the text it says it's 2.7 cm high, while according to the spec list it's 2.075 cm high. Which one is it?

is there a model of this which is not touch screen?

It's 800 euro's in Holland!

Just bought this and even though the screen is great the touchpad is a very difficult beast to get used to. It seems very sensitive when tracking yet when tapping to left click the pad sometimes doesn't register the tap. Also when using the buttons the cursor moves now and then making it difficult to be precise.
Another con is the right fan which has a distinct noise to it. It's like an electronic ticking that is always there. Even when idle you can hear the fan. Only when the airflow noise is sufficient loud the noise is camouflaged.

Does anybody know if card reader supports UHS-I?

I think this was a great purchase for gaming. In Hungary it costs only 595€.

Im pretty sure there is a severe mistake in this article, it says its equipped with a 53Wh battery however it has a 3560mah battery wich would mean a 35Wh battery. I think the battery performance is also based on a 53Wh battery becuase its performance is very different from other reviews. There are actually quite a few reviews that complain about bad battery performance!

Quote from: James Baker on September 16, 2013, 07:52:11
As someone who owns the predecessor to this notebook the M5 (comes with a 640M) it has its ...

100% disagree to your M5 review.

I have it for 12 months now. I travel and work with it every day. I work on it in the office, on airports, in trains, I play games and watch movies in hotels in evenings.  I don't behave nice to it in general - I take it outside, dropped a bag with it etc - the only issue I had so far was crashed HDD which got repaired by Acer in 48hrs.

Acer M5 was exceptionally well built and sturdy. Don't judge by brand.

Very appealing specs for the price. Could someone who has this laptop comment on some things?

I'm interested in battery lifetime under working conditions(say, medium brightness, wifi on and working with MS Office).
Also, heat: would it be possible to keep this LAPtop on your LAP while doing work in the mentioned conditions? I'm not speaking about gaming, it'd get too hot for sure.
Lastly, the power button. It's on the left side towards the back and I'm concerned that it might be the cause of accidental shutting down or turning on when picking up or using in a cluttered environment. I'm also concerned that it will keep turning itself on when carried in a laptop case.

@Vertigo

I have the same laptop but without the full HD screen. Under said conditions I can get at least 8-9 hours of battery life, probably even more. I also changed the HDD to a SSD though, so I guess you would get around 6-7 hours with a full HD screen and a traditional HDD.

Unless you're gaming then the heat won't be a problem when you keep it on your lap.

Also, at least for me, pressing the power button puts the laptop into hibernation mode, so you don't have to be concerned about the laptop turning off accidentally. I also haven't experienced the laptop turning on by itself yet.


@hanshanzen

It's 2.075 cm.

Hi. I just want to know is there any extra place for put mssd drive in Acer Aspire V5-573G-54204G50aii.. My version is bit different than this..

I was able to clone Windows 8.1 (I upgraded) and Ubuntu 13.10 from the hard drive to an msata ssd (crucial m500 240gb) and dual boot booth OSes from the msata ssd.  Now I use the old windows partition on the hd as a data drive.

I would recommend a fresh install of Windows though. Cloning Windows 8 with uefi is a big hassle.

Also, I would suggest making restore media to a USB drive BEFORE upgrading to Windows 8.1.  I didn't do this, and now I can't make the restore media, and I can't start the recovery process from the recovery partition either for some reason.

 8)I've had this computer for 8 months. Motherboard went up in the 1st 3 months but Acer did replace it. The biggest problem I have with it is the keyboard and mouse. The curser constantly goes all over the place and I'm constantly retyping. I think just hovering over the mouse pad combined with oversensitivity is causing that problem. They should just give you a plug in mouse so its off to the side. The keyboard I have to bang to get it to register. The SD slot requires all SD cards to be formatted which I don't want to do if there's data on it. It can read unformatted USB but it can't read unformatted SD? Only came with 1GB memory, had to upgrade to 4 GB to get some speed. I also wiped Windows 8 and loaded Windows 7 Professional. Definitely better. Not totally disappointed for the $279 price even with added hardware and software but if you do serious work, this computer might not be what you want.

I think you're talking about a completely different laptop. This one has 4GB memory soldered AND one free slot.

I got this laptop from Germany in October for 577 EUR without the full HD screen. I upgraded it with additional 4GB of RAM (only DDR3L, don't buy regular DDR3 RAM as it doesn't work) and I also bought Kingston 120GB mSATA SSD drive. I am very pleased with the laptop, gaming performance is good, I can run all the latest games at native 1366x768 resolution at high details at some 25-30 FPS. It restarts from desktop back to desktop and running Firefox in some 30-40 seconds. :)
Battery life is good, it runs at least 6 hours of normal load, I keep the screen at maximum brightness. Sometimes the touchpad stops responding but I use mouse. Also, the fan is quite noisy but luckily it is off most of the time when you use it normally.
The only regret I have is not buying the full HD version, for the regular use, as it's not powerful enough to play at 1080p.

I bought this computer a month ago and I'm very pleased with it's performance. It runs smoothly even when I put some hard 3D rendering on it. I had some troubles installing Windows 8(Yes, Windows 8), actually I had to rewrite the operating system when a fatal error accured and I had the blue screen of death and by accident I left 2Gb of non formated disk space. But it was my fault and I would give this computer a score of 90% because I don't like the rear usb3.0 ports

Has anyone experienced image retention/ghosting? I recently bought this laptop, been given 3 replacements and all of them had some pretty bad image persistence. It was so annoying I finally had to return the laptop... The response time was also not so good.  Otherwise a great machine.

could you write something about deltaE 2000?

Does this have the 750m ddr3 version or is it the gddr5 version?

This is the DDR3 4gb version. I put a Samsung EVO 840 mSATA SSD 250gb in this system. It flys now!! Super fast. Let then 10 sec boot!!!

I'm also interested to buy it this month from bangladesh which have core i5,4GB RAM, 1TB HDD, 2 GB graphic, and screen is not full HD . can anyone give the negative side of this laptop & suggestion  who already used it. Please brother, it will be helpful for me.

It would be nice if you could do an update on the new version with the i5-4210U and GTX 850M. And also address the issues some people from the forums have had with the previous model (this review) since it was released. Wifi problems, annoying fan noise, and so on...  :)

Just bought one with 4210u in slovakia. No fan issues, no wifi problems. Nice screen. Quite bad touchscreen, with the right button sort of pushed down, im going to change it.

Please a review of the Acer Aspire V5-573G-54218G50aii

The german review was published today:
http://www.notebookcheck.com/Test-Update-Acer-Aspire-V5-573G-54218G1Taii-Notebook.122639.0.html

You can wait a few days for the official translation or you can ask google or here, if you want specific aspects of the review translated. I could try to translate some parts for you tomorrow if you tell me what parts you are the most interested in.

Thnx man, but google translate to the rescue!

''All displays use IPS technology'' NO! That  is absolutely not the truth! http://www.acer.hr/ac/hr/HR/search?q=E5-573G

The notebook works okay, but the display is made of very cheap, bendable material. After one year the display shows stripes going vertically through. After sending it in they swapped the display and sent it back to me. Now the warrenty is gone after another year the display shows the same stripes again. Better don't buy this one