Laptop Review-Acer Aspire V3-471GÂ Â by SmithJames
You can describe the Acer Aspire V3 ‘s design with one word: Functional. With a glossy, single-color plastic lid (our review unit is in champagne gold), it looks identical to a number of mainstream 14-inch laptops. If you remove the Acer logo, you’re unlikely to guess the brand. There’s no attempt to jazz it up witha textured or metallic finish.
Open up the laptop and you’re facing a glossy display surrounded by thick black bezels-give it a month and they will be covered by unsightly fingerprint smudges. The palmrest is slightly raised, which is similar to what we found on the HP Envy 14 Spectre, though in the case of the V3, it doesn’t feel as jarring as on the Spectre. Personally, we think that it’s because the Acer already looks busy and cluttered, while the clean lines of the Spectre were broken by its elevated palmrest.
The chiclet Acer laptop keyboard doesn’t come with backlighting and the key arrangements are similar to other recent Acer laptops. The arrow keys can be a bit small, which isn’t ideal, especially as they are also used to adjust the screen brightness and volume-Acer obviously hasn’t gotten the memo from vendors such as Apple and HP about reversing the Function keys to toggle important functions such as Wi-Fi. A good thing here is that the keyboard showed little flex.
The trackpad in the Acer laptop keyboard comes with two distinct buttons that give a nice tactile response when clicked. Common multitouch features such as pinch-to-zoom and two-finger scroll are supported on this trackpad, though there isn’t much space on the trackpad for expansive gestures.
Features
We have often criticized the mediocre displays on Acer’s laptops and the V3 doesn’t give us any reason to do otherwise. While this laptop’s 1,366 x 768-pixel resolution is pretty reasonablefor a 14 incher, the offaxis viewing leaves much to be desired. It’s quite similar to the last Acer notebook we reveiwed, the Aspire Timeline Ultra M3. The screen’s glossy coating doesn’t help, though adjusting the brightness to the maximum does alleviate this to a certain extent.
The Acer Aspire V3 is one of the earliest Ivy Bridge laptops in the market, boasting a 2.3GHz quad-core version with a substantial amount of RAM (8GB). The Nvidia GeForce GT 640M onboard is also one of the company’s new Kepler-based chips. It should make for a very competent laptop, with its 750GB HDD (with no SSD cache) probably being the least impressive specification. Still, this is pretty competitive hardware for a mainstream laptop.
With native USB 3.0 support on Intel’s new 7-series chipsets, it’s a bit disappointing that there’s just a single USB 3.0 port on the V3. You do get three USB ports in total, along with HDMI and VGA connectors. Thankfully, unlike the Timeline Ultra M3 which placed some ports at the rear, the ones on the V3 are easily accessible at both sides.
An Ethernet port is also found on this laptop with Acer Laptop Keyboard and you’ll find the usual support for wireless (Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n and Bluetooth) connectivity.
Like a number of Acer Laptop Keyboard , the V3 supports Dolby Home Theater Audio, which comes with a software-based control panel. Default profiles for movies, music and games have been created, though users can adjust an equalizer and save the settings as a custom profile. The laptop also startled us with how loud it could get when adjusted to its maximum volume setting. The audio quality may get slightly crackly, but it can certainly fill up the room.
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