Acer Aspire M5-581

Keyboard with backlight ; Optical drive ; GPU performance of the GeForce GT 640M ; Price-performance ratio ; Long battery life under load ; Ports on the back

Average port selection (no VGA connector) ; Viewing angles quite restricted ; Constant fan noise

The thermal differences between this model and the Timeline Ultra M3-581TG

Click to EnlargeWith most 15.6-inch notebooks, you're forced to lug around a bulky, heavy device, sacrificing thickness for power. The $829 Acer Aspire TimelineU M5-581TG-6666 is a happy compromise, stuffing a slim 0.81-inch chassis with an Ivy Bridge...

This is a decently powered laptop, but it is very very thin and high quality looking. The screen I'm not too fond of, but that's always been the case with acer screens. Overall a solid machine, and love the fact that it has a number pad

First one that arrived was bad - touch pad would stop working at a certain angle, and the wifi seemed to operate without an antenna connected because the range was lousy ; The second one's wifi worked great, and the touch pad issue was not there....

I love this Ultrabook. I was deciding if I even needed it to be honest, but now that I have it's amazing. Really fast, and play any game I throw at it. For the price (I paid 680) you really can't beat it. I would buy this thing again in a heartbeat. I...

No cons so far. Only the "sleep issue" where you have to touch the button sometimes to wake it up. The power button on the front isn't best of choices either but these are small things to live with

Thin, relatively light, great battery life, and runs diablo 3, black ops 2, borderlands 2, and CS:GO all perfectly fine with latest nvidia drivers. Unlike some people I love the keyboard. I can type fast and haven't noticed any missed keys. The...

The mechanical drives they put in these must be garbage! My hdd died after about 40 days, sent to Acer (which I'll never do via ups again$$) got it back 2 weeks later but its been running perfectly since(another 40ish days). The USB ports in the back...

Switchable Graphics between Intel HD 4000 and 640m ; Sleek and stylish ; Portable, light, slim aka an ultrabook

nvidia optimus that is supposed to "switch seamlessly" between graphic to save on power and only use the 640m when need doesn't work at all. Simple and easy way to add games to be played on 640 is to list their .exe file in the exceptions in Nvidia...

Can play most games at high to ultra settings ; Optical Drive ; Build Quality ; Sleek ; Decent" Processor (though still better than ANY mobile AMD processor) *AMD fanboy ; PRICE

PORTS ON BACK ; Heat while gaming is worrying ; Bloatware, went ahead and formatted to Windows 8, installed Windows 7 Pro, and set to dual boot using Windows 7 boot manager and that probably took as long as I would have spent uninstalling all of the...

Mine also came with a full 640M and not the LE version

Would get a full 5 eggs but it does run warm like others state if your doing some long gaming sessions. Wish you could enable Raid to take advantage of Intel Smart Response Technology for SSD caching cause the SSD is only used for fast sleep and wake...

Ivy Bridge I5 ; GPU is 640M NOT the 640M LE as others have mentioned ; Thin

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