Acer Aspire AS5532-5535 Laptop Notebook – 15.6″ LCD / AMD Athlon TF-20 / 3GB DDR2 / 160GB HD / DVD±RW/CD-RW drive / 802.11b/g/Draft-N / Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

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5 Reviews

1. This computer is really cute, has a nice screen, and has adequate RAM if you don’t store a lot of photos or documents on it, but has an absolutely horrible cursor issue. The cursor gets stuck and freezes AT LEAST 1x/week! It’s awful. I always fear for my documents, and save them every 2 minutes, because the cursor freezes, and I have to restart the computer. In short, I would not purchase this computer again, and I would not recommend it to anyone.

2. I had two Dell computers over the past 8 years and both had problems with Dell batteries and transformers (in the charger) died. I replaced both once and then gave up. I decided to buy a new computer and it was not going to be a Dell. I heard from friends that the HP Notebook was a problem running Windows 7. My son-in-law recommended the ACER and said it was the best value for the money. Although money was not an issue it was nice to get a computer with so much for so little. I’ve only had the computer three weeks and I am sooooo frustrated with the mouse. It is built into the keyboard panel and is not set low enough into the computer. So every time you try and type an email or letter on Word your palm or wrist brushes up against the mouse pad and the cursor goes flying three lines up (or down) or wherever. The cursor seems to have a life of its own. You continue typing not realizing the problem and you have a cut and paste job over and over again. Well this would be ok if it happened once in a while but it is constant!!!!!! so-o-o annoying. My daughter said “Use a wireless mouse”, well if I wanted to carry a mouse around with me I would have bought a desktop system. I wanted portability and this is suppose to be it. If you do a lot of typing, and type fast, like I do, this computer will drive you nuts. It is so frustrating and there is no way to fix the problem. Not sure what to do…return it or deal with it. I do not like the keys on the board either. They are small and often you hit the wrong one since you are use to larger keys. Not a good design on two important aspects of a notebook. Sorry

3. One lesson that my father drilled into me is that you get what you pay for. If you buy bottom of the line you will get a bottom of the line item. The Acer 5532 does its best to prove my father wrong.

   The ram at 3 gigs is less than almost any new machine, it has only 2 usb ports, the memory card reader is a simple push in, the hard drive of 160 gig is smaller than almost any new machine you will buy, there is no web cam and the AMD Athlon TF-20 1.60 gh processor is not a racehorse in any sense of the word.

   But this machine cost me only $350 (including tax) new! I’ve given it a heavy workload in blogging and writing and it has done the job. The screen is crisp and clear, everything functions fine, the battery life is only 2 1/2 hours but that is adequate for my needs and the Windows 7 OS has proven itself to be all that Microsoft claimed it is.

   My only complaint has been the right arrow key which has proven itself kind of weak, and the size of the touchpad area tends to make it easy for my hand to accidentally brush it when typing.

   This machine does everything I want in a laptop for a price that is affordable in very tough times for me. Maybe when I’m doing better I might consider a system with a bit more OOMPH but if you need a new system and want to do so on a shoestring this does the job, I mean cripes for the price of my son’s Apple we could have bought one of these for each member of the family and still had $200 left over.

   The specs certainly make this bottom of the line but not bottom of the barrel. It is a good starting laptop for a youth or an elder just beginning their computer use.

   I’d buy it again.

4. I have owned this computer for 6 months and it still runs like new. It does just about anything you would normally do. In the ad it never said it had a mic or camera so who ever posted that was refering to a different model. I’ve had it for six months and I live on it due to my job and home life, and is just like new. What is sad is when I purchased this laptop I had never heard of this company and the computer is exellent, but before I had a Sony Vaio and it didn’t last but 6mo.s and BestBuy replaced it with this one due to product malfunction. I have to say somtimes name brands are not all they are cracked up to be. One thing to remember is to get educated about protecting your computer and do what is necessary and you should not have any serious problems. I was very uneducated when I first got a puter and it took me 3 yrs. to understand it so I understand easier said than done, but take the time to protect it it is in the end a machine not alive and cannot fix itself and protect itself without your help.

5. bought this laptop yesterday, and so far no problems yet. Internet browsing, email and basic MS Office tasks are adequate for my needs. I also bought a wireless mouse since the mouse controls on the keyboard seem a bit flimsy.
   In addition, I deleted the games file (99 mb’s) in size and the computer’s running faster now.

   Overall, from my short exposure to it, the laptop is adequate.