Acer Aspire M5-581TG

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alaTest has collected and analyzed 126 reviews of Acer Aspire M5-581TG. The average rating for this product is 3.7/5, compared to an average rating of 4.0/5 for other products in the same category for all reviews. Reviewers are impressed by the usability and price. The portability and design are also appreciated. Some have doubts about the image quality.

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Consumer review (amazon.co.uk)

Amazon.co.uk review summary for Acer Aspire M5-581TG

alaTest has collected and analyzed 10 user reviews of Acer Aspire M5-581TG from Amazon.co.uk. The average user rating for this product is 3.4/5, compared to an average user rating of 4.0/5 for other products in the same category on Amazon.co.uk. Reviewers really like the design and durability. The battery and portability also get good opinions. Many are critical about the size, and the price and usability get mixed reviews.

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70% of the reviews on Amazon.co.uk give this product a positive rating.

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Amazon.com review summary for Acer Aspire M5-581TG

alaTest has collected and analyzed 22 user reviews of Acer Aspire M5-581TG from Amazon.com. The average user rating for this product is 3.4/5, compared to an average user rating of 3.9/5 for other products in the same category on Amazon.com. Reviewers are impressed by the screen and usability. The price and portability also get good feedback, but there are some less positive reviews about the image quality. Opinions are divided on the keyboard.

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59% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

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Expert review by : Scott Stein (cnet.com)

Acer Aspire M5 481PT review: Touch at a good price

The affordable, fully featured Aspire M5 has a touch screen, but also throwback features like a DVD drive. Consider this your safe Windows 8 laptop bet.

The 14-inch ; has a solid metal body, strong battery life, good performance, a DVD drive, and a touch screen, all for a manageable price.

The screen quality isn't stellar, the touch pad doesn't always handle well, and unlike previous versions, it doesn't offer dedicated graphics.

Considering the total package of features and price, the Acer Aspire M5 feels like a safe bet if you want an all-encompassing Windows 8 laptop with touch that won't cost a fortune.

Nov, 2012

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Expert review by : Sean Hollister (theverge.com)

Acer Aspire M5 review: the affordable all-purpose ultrabook

Battlefield 3 on a power-sipping ultrabook? They said it couldn't be done. In March, however, Acer and Nvidia proved them wrong. Behind closed doors at the 2012 Game Developer's Conference, the sleek black 15.6-inch Acer Aspire Timeline Ultra M3 ran...

Game-capable graphics ; Cool and quiet ; Good battery life ; Great build quality for the money

Sub-par screen ; Touchpad and keyboard need work ; Annoying port and button arrangement

Not everything to everyone, but still an easy recommendation

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Expert review by : Waldemar Trautwein (notebookcheck.net)

Review Acer Aspire Timeline Ultra M5-581TG Ultrabook

Ultra(Gaming)Book. Acer equips their Ultrabook with a 20.6 millim

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.

Dec, 2012

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Expert review by : Prianca Tekwani (technostall.com)

Acer Aspire M5 Ultrabooks Series is now available

You must have heard of Aspire M5 ultrabooks, Acer's new device which is becoming a threat and a challenge for the existing laptops of today's world. The brand ‘Acer' is already known among the world's top 5 technical ...

May, 2012

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Acer Aspire Timeline Ultra M5-581TG-6666

The Acer Timeline Ultra M5 is yet another Ultrabook on the scene. This one offers an attractive design, great audio, an optical drive and discrete graphics. It does lack in screen resolution and overall performance, which holds this computer back from...

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Expert review by : paul_smart (gadgetspeak.com)

Acer Aspire Timeline M5-581TG

A powerful notebook with lots of memory and joy of joys no shiny black in sight anywhere as the whole thing is silver grey. The screen is of course reflective but not nearly as much as a lot of other offerings I have used.

This is an Intel Core i5 unit with a 500GB hard disc and a small SSD that helps make things quite a bit quicker in starting. It is 36x25x2cm and it weights 2.175kilos. The unit feels really sturdy probably because the screen back is aluminium. You will...

Dec, 2012

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

Paper weight

Last time I buy a laptop from newegg.

On sale

First, the HDD went bad, then the track pad,then the battery wouldn't hold charge, then the Ethernet/wireless adapter died......The trackpad, battery, and HDD went bad within six months and became a desktop. I bought another laptop 6 months after...

Feb, 2014

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

beautiful and slim

Once you get used to the screen you're fine. The touch pad however is a bit too annoying so I'm using a usb mouse.

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....

Mar, 2013

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

Best thing I ever bought

I purposely waited to review this for a period of a few weeks to make sure it didn't start to crash or anything and so far she's a beast. Also it's a 640M (Keplar based) NOT the LE. Laptop sits flat on the table for me. (Someone else said theirs...

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

Jan, 2013

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

Liking it a lot so far.

Hearing the problems with win 8 bothers me but i need 7 still for school so I'm hoping Acer will update their drivers before i make the change. Probably throw in a crucial 256gb msata and a matching 8gb stick of RAM to speed this thing up even more....

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...

Jan, 2013

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