Acer Aspire 5 Slim Laptop, 15.6 Inches FHD IPS Display, 8th Gen Intel Core i5-8265U, 8GB DDR4, 256GB SSD, Fingerprint Reader, Windows 10 Home, A515-54-51DJ

After a month of owning, Windows 10 updates were needed as soon as the box was opened on Christmas day. Display started to flicker this past week and display would turn on and off. Had to update video drivers with no issue. Still not pleased with the outcome of all the updates needed for Windows 10. Have yet to see a repeat of the problem but was updated last night.

The product description states Backlit Keyboard & FPR Reader - Work comfortably in any environment with the backlit keyboard. What it doesnt say is the backlit stays on for only 30 seconds. There is no option to make it stay on. This laptop is not suitable for anyone who needs to use it in a dark environment.

For the price this laptop is impressive

Here are the major flaws/deal breakers: This laptop arrived Dec 01 and by Feb 29, the fingerprint reader and trackpad had died. Reinstalling the fingerprint driver from the Acer website enabled me to get that working again, but so far no luck reinstalling touchpad driver. So within 90 days of ownership, Im reduced to using an optical mouse. The unit obviously has a weak internal WiFi antenna, as it knocks itself off of WiFi repeatedly during the day, requiring multiple restarts. Note that my router is located within 3 FEET/1 METER of this unit, so dont tell me its a distance issue. Nor are my other devices (work laptop, tablets, smartphones) knocking themselves off of WiFi. EVER! Please dont waste your money on this laptop which obviously was marketed way before competent R&D was completed. Other flaws that are closer to annnoyances than deal breakers. There is no keyboard or on-screen indicator for either the CAPS LOCK or NUM LOCK functions. Granted, it is quickly obvious if NUM LOCK is not engaged, but think about all the times youre going to lock yourself out of online accounts because you have no way of knowing if youre correctly entering an Upper Case Character in a password. What were they thinking? Did they save a whole $ .01 USD by omitting these useful functions? Cooling fan gets noisy at times. It seems odd that the fan and air vents are on the bottom of this laptop, which is elevated on shallow feet perhaps 1/8 in height. So, technically, there is some airflow beneath the unit, but its limited. Most other laptops Ive had placed the air vents on the side of the unit (where airflow is intuitively greater). This is my first laptop in over 10 years where I fear Ill have to start using a raised, laptop stand with auxiliary cooling fans. Is there a silver lining to this waste of money? Well, between the fast processor and SSD it restarts quickly--which is a godsend because youll be restarting this laptop REPEATEDLY. EVERY. DAY. as it constantly knocks itself off of WiFi. Save your money/sanity/aggravation and skip this in favor of a REAL, FUNCTIONAL LAPTOP.

Great product for the price. No touch screen, but I knew that.

The internet on this laptop was incredibly slow. On the same day that I received it, it took over 2 minutes to load up a single page in Internet Explorer and Firefox. My old computer isn’t even that slow. I was on the phone with technical support for an hour and they couldn’t fix it. So sadly I am returning this laptop.

The laptop exceeds my expectations for this price. A solid piece of laptop that doesnt look cheap and very fast!! 5 stars..

The laptop is perfectly suitable for everyday tasks - I mainly use it for schoolwork.

Awesome computer for personal use. The design is nice as well!

Battery is horrible all I do on this thing is papers I use word for a short period and then I have to plug it in. Otherwise pretty nice very sleek looks good and tubs good.