Acer Aspire V3-551

Works quietly at all times ; 24 months guarantee ; Decent battery life ; Good keyboard

At full load, the full performance is not available ; Average, reflective display ; The case attracts fingerprints

The Aspire V3-551G runs nearly 8 hours despite having a quad-core CPU and two GPUs

Strong graphics performance ; Vivid display with fairly wide viewing angles; Runs cool; Comfortable keyboard

Below-average battery life; Weak audio; Mushy touchpad buttons

Click to EnlargeFor $499, the Acer Aspire V3-551-8458 offers Windows 8 notebook shoppers who are on a budget a vivid display and surprisingly strong graphics performance, plus a comfortable keyboard. The touchpad buttons are on the mushy side, and the...

Good gaming abilities; A bargain

Weak processing power; Cramped keyboard

We found the Aspire V3-551-8664 to be a bargain gaming machine.

100% of reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

Price, looks, capabilities ; Running Starcraft 2- HOTS on high settings in quickmatch, though I would lower it for bigger maps, and games like Desert Strike where there's a ton of units and bases ; Battlefield 3 is running pretty smooth on medium...

Little bit of bloatware, had problems updating the AMD grahpics, I had to use the auto detect feature on their page ; Not much literature regarding the functionality of the machine on ACER's homepage, or google results. Wanted to apply a fix that...

It was snappy out of the box, but after upgrading the ram with an extra 4GB, it's lightning fast! It plays games like a dream. I know it isn't some elite gaming beast, but it plays games very, very well. WoW, Skyrim, Minecraft, DOTA 2 and others all...

Here it comes: Windows 8. I say it is a con, but honestly, after playing with it for a few hours I got quite used to it. It's basically Windows 7 but with a prettier package. I just keep it on desktop mode 100% of the time, so no worries ; Also, the...

Very fast, stays cool with intense gaming ; Plays every game I want, only game that I have to run on low settings is Borderlands 2, Black ops 2 gets 60 fps+ on high, Skyrim run 1366x768 at high settings without AA and AF and low shadows runs smooth 60...

Scared me for a bit, core temp was saying the CPU was hitting 111C, but after updating some drivers and updates it was at normal temps, was just a sensor or something. Probably why the person returned it haha

Very Good Gaming! Minecraft gameplay is amazing. On full settings it ran at 70 fps. I flashed linux on it later (mint 13) and it ran minecraft around 140 fps on full. It is very impressive. I don't like the linux as much so I bought windows 7 ultimate...

Windows 8 is terrible in my opinion. Use linux or Windows 7. I prefer ultimate/Professional

Laptop took about 1 hour to fully install Windows 8 upon first boot up and create a backup for it as well ; Fast startup approx. 20 sec ; Little bloatware(McAfee, Kindle, Wildtangent, and maybe like 5 other apps) ; Can run latest games on Med. to High...

Body attracts fingerprints easily(buy a cheese cloth just for this) ; Feels so light, I dont think it would last through a fall ; The second day I used it...it crashed when I was restarting. Took about 5 mins to restart ; My portable programs didn't...

Looks nice

As others have said below there is a boot disk error going around with currently shipping notebooks. I would wait a while til they get this bad batch out