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A great little machine - a huge step up from the old 9" EEE PC I bought it to replace after the EEE finally killed its second battery. The screen is very clear and bright, and so far the shininess hasn't been a problem in the places I have used it. Compared to an Aspire One 753, viewing angles seem better, especially vertically. The touchscreen seems fine, but it's my first touchscreen PC so it's hard to say how it compares to others. Given significant bounce in the hinges, I did find myself double-clicking unintentionally at first due to the screen rebounding onto my finger. The keyboard is low-travel, as would be expected in such a thin machine, but seems quite positive. The absence of video output and wired networking (and a third USB port) without buying an adapter might be an issue for some people, especially anyone connecting a drive which requires a second port for power, though habitual mouse-users could save a USB port by using a bluetooth mouse. Since I'm likely to want to connect multiple USB3 devices, I bought a compact powerable USB3 hub, so the lack of a third port is no real issue for me. It is slightly annoying that the SD card slot leaves a card protruding a long way, since I like to keep an SD card permanently in a portable machine as extra storage/backup. I'm expecting that should be sorted by using a micro-SD card in a short adapter. I upgraded the OS to 8.1 and the HDD to an SSD. Installing the SSD was easy, and putting a clean 8.1 install onto it was both painless and fairly quick with an external DVD drive and an 8.1 DVD I already had, using the generic 8.1 product key for install and then switching to the 8.0 key extracted from the V5's BIOS. The quad-core version may be a bit nicer (the machine I got was only a twin-core), but for non-intensive tasks it's absolutely fine, and adding the SSD does seem to make quite a difference to application opening times. My desktop (same SSD) is around 3x faster core-for-core on benchmarks and is a quad core, but the V5 isn't too far behind it at things like opening Openoffice, browsers, etc, and seems to take about twice as long when compiling microcontroller code. Playing 720x576 video on a maximised window, VLC takes ~15-20% of CPU. A disc access LED would have been nice, since with an SSD it isn't easy to tell if it's actually busy doing something, especially when unsure if a touchscreen or trackpad click or double-click worked. For the price I paid for it, it's a fantastic machine.Read full review
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The Acer Aspire V5-122P ultraportable laptop looks like an old-fashioned netbook, but it has a quad-core AMD A6-1450 processor and build quality that's a cut above your average cheap small laptop. Acer V5-122P Admittedly, the processor only runs at 1GHz and scored just 20 overall in our application benchmarks, struggling with both multitasking and video encoding. However, it's powerful enough to produce a relatively smooth Windows 8 desktop experience when using most standard desktop applications such as web browsers, word processors and even image editing software, although we wouldn't advise multitasking with several processor-intensive applications or encoding high-definition video. The laptop has 6GB of RAM, which helps with tasks such as working with big images, as well as with overall responsiveness. The V5-122P also has comparatively good 3D graphics capabilities, thanks to the processor's on-chip AMD Radeon HD 8280 chipset. It's still not powerful enough to run our Dirt Showdown test, which we run at High quality, 4x AA and a resolution of 1,280x720, at a measureable frame rate, though. Dropping the quality to Ultra Low, however, brings the average frame rate all the way up to 32.1fps. That's incredibly good for a compact, low-cost laptop, although the screen is still rather too small for comfort. You might be able to keep yourself entertained with a game of Portal 2, but that’s about as far as it goes for games.Read full review
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