Product Description
Acer V5-571P-6642 Touch Screen Notebook comes with these high level specs: 3rd Generation Intel Core i5-3317U Processor, Windows 8, 15.6" HD Widescreen CineCrystal LED-backlit Display, Multi-touch screen, supporting 10 finger touch, Mobile Intel HM77 Express Chipset, Intel HD Graphics 4000 with 128MB of dedicated system memory, 6144MB DDR3 Memory, 500GB SATA Hard Drive (5400RPM), 8X DVD-Super Multi Double-Layer Drive, Multi-in-1 Digital Media Card Reader, 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi CERTIFIED, Bluetooth 4.0+HS, Built-In HD Webcam, 2 - USB 2.0 Ports, 1 - USB 3.0 Port, 1 - HDMI Port, 1 - LAN/VGA Port, 6-cell Li-ion Battery (4400 mAh), Up to 5-hours Battery Life, 5.3 lbs. | 2.4 kg (system unit only)Don’t forget Office with your PC purchase. Download Office 2013 instantly with Amazon Digital Software.
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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #92 in Personal Computers
- Color: Silky Siver
- Brand: Acer Computer
- Model: V5-571P-6642
- Released on: 2012-10-26
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .96" h x 9.96" w x 15.00" l, 5.30 pounds
- CPU: Core i5-3317U 1.7 GHz
- Memory: 6GB SDRAM
- Hard Disk: 500GB
- Processors: 2
- Display size: 15.6
Features
- Intel Core i5 3317U 1.7 GHz (3 MB Cache)
- 6 GB SDRAM
- 500 GB 5400 rpm Hard Drive
- 15.6-Inch Touchscreen, Intel HD Graphics 4000
- Windows 8, 5-hour battery life
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Finally, a light and lean computing machine with touch: the Aspire V5 Series Notebook. At only 1" slim and super light, this Notebook packs potent power and graphics and even features an optical drive and handy LAN/VGA combo port, while integrating a touchscreen for exciting hands on navigation. The elegant design sports silky surfaces and takes full advantage of the touch capabilities of Windows® 8 so you can experience efficiency hands-on as you open and close programs, browse online, and breeze through photo albums—using nothing but your fingers.
Key Features
- 15.6" HD Widescreen CineCrystal™ LED-backlit Display: (1366 x 768) resolution; 16:9 aspect ratio
- Multi-touch screen, supporting 10 finger touch
- 3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i5-3317U Processor 1.7GHzwith Turbo Boost Technology up to 2.6GHz
- Windows 8
- Intel® HD Graphics 4000 with 128MB of dedicated system memory
- 6GB DDR3 Memory
- 500GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive
- 8X DVD-Super Multi Double-Layer Drive
- 2-in-1 Digital Media Card Reader
- 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™
- Bluetooth® 4.0+HS
- 1.3MP HD Webcam(1280 x 1024)
- Optimized Dolby® Advanced Audio® v2 audio enhancement
- Two Built-in stereo speakers
- 2- USB 2.0 Ports
- 1- USB 3.0 Port
- 1- HDMI™ Portwith HDCP Support
- 4-cell Lithium-Ion Battery (2500mAh)
- Up to 5-hours battery life
- 5.3 lbs. | 2.4kg system unit only
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Hands on Navigation with Touch | |
 | Experience a new type of navigation on the stunning 15.6" Widescreen 10-point multi-touch Display. The frameless edge-to-edge design keeps this Notebook super slim and provides a large area for touch interactions as well as a full web browsing experience. 10 Points Multi-Touch Display makes your digital life more intuitive, more electric, more fun! Experience efficiency hands-on as you open and close programs, browse online, and breeze through photo albums—using nothing but your fingers. Simply scroll, flick, pinch and rotate motions to accomplish your tasks quickly. Windows 8 has been re-imagined to be all about you. Put what matters most right on your Start screen, and get instant access to your people, apps, sites and more, so you can spend less time searching and more time doing. And with a combination of the touch display and the new Windows 8 you get a fast and fluid working environment. Quickly zoom in or out to customize your view and group, label, and rearrange apps on your Start screen. |
Slender, yet Full-Featured | |
 | At less than 1" thin, the V5 Series Notebook is slender and light while still housing a built-in slim DVD drive, making it 30% slimmer than traditional PCs that feature DVD drives. The new touchpad with large working area and enhanced sensitivity makes for a better working experience. Outfitted with 3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i5 Processor, the V5 Notebook lets you see and feel the difference in your movies, photos, and games smoothly and seamlessly with a suite of visual enhancements built into the processor. Enjoy the thrill of an automatic burst of speed when you need it with Intel® Turbo Boost Technology. And with Dolby® Advanced Audio® v2 this PC delivers a crisp, clear cinematic surround sound experience over its built-in speakers. Backlit Keyboard adds a cool subtle glow to your typing experience that not only looks good, but helps guide your fingers while typing in dimly lit areas. When the 15.6" fails to satiate your visual appetite, the HDMI™ output lets you pipe HD content and high quality audio to an external monitor or big screen HDTV via a single cable. |
Instant Communication | |
 | Acer Instant Connect gets you to the web in 4x faster than conventional notebooks by remembering previous Wi-Fi spots you've visited! So when they're in range, it instantly connects you to the Internet- no waiting required! Have crystal-clear video chats with friends and family and snap still pictures, all in HD, with the advanced HD Webcam. Its high pixel density delivers amazing image quality in 24 frames per sec. Built-in 802.11b/g/n Wireless provides the freedom to roam to hot spots while Bluetooth® technology lets your wirelessly connect to other Bluetooth-enabled devices such as phones, printers and hand-held organizers, eliminating the need for a tangled wire. With AcerCloud your PCs storage IS your Cloud storage with wireless access to your photos, music, videos and documents -- wherever you are, on any PC, on all your devices! SocialJogger lets you stay in touch with friends and the latest buzz by placing Facebook® and Twitter in one place! Check updates in a single glance and scroll through endless feeds with the innovative jog dial. |
Customer Reviews
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184 of 188 people found the following review helpful.
Outstanding step forward
By Dave
I've had mine for a few hours so these are just first impressions:
The build quality is very high - this laptop feels solid despite being very light. The design is clean and simple, the screen is bright and the colors are vibrant. The sound is well above average for a laptop, but that's not saying too much.
This is my first exposure to Windows8 and from what I read in the press, I was expecting to hate it. On the contrary I think for home use it's going to work out perfectly. If you are comfortable with the iPhone style interface you'll have no problem with Windows8. During the initial setup boot it shows you the two main things you need to know in order to navigate. With that I was up and running. I wasn't too sure about the touch screen idea: love it for my phone, but how would the ergonomics feel with a laptop? Answer: awesome. With the Windows8 "tile" based interface, touch just works. I've barely used the touchpad since I got this thing. My other computers seem lame now. Again, this is based on a few hours of use, but the first impressions are very good. I think the Windows OS has made a big step forward out of the cluttered mess it was.
I work in the computing industry so I looked a little closer into some of the specs for those who like to know these things: the CPU, as noted is an Intel i5. That doesn't really tell you much, since that can refer to multiple generations of Intel chips. In this case it is the latest and greatest "IvyBridge" dual-core Intel CPU (22nm, Tri-gate transistors). This is a 17w(!) CPU. That is insanely low power for the performance you are getting. This CPU also includes some fairly robust integrated graphics on the die with 16 graphics execution units. This is 4 more than the previous high-end, and 10 more than the current "second tier". I've read up on the benchmarks and it out classes many discrete graphics solutions. This should actually enable you to do some fairly decent gaming on your laptop if you so choose. It will won't compete with a dedicated "gaming" laptop with high-end discrete graphics, but then again it won't cost you 2-3K. One thing to note is that the Intel graphics drivers generally fall short of AMD or Nvidia when it comes to some of the more high-end graphics settings. Most users don't even know how to get to those features, but if you are serious gamer this is something to consider. On the other hand when it comes to mainstream applications and video performance, Intel performs as well or better than the competition.
A few things to note: this laptop has a nice big 500GB hard drive, but it's a conventional drive and not a solid-state drive. All conventional drives are at risk of failure, and so you should pick up a cheap external back-up HDD just to be safe (or sign up for an online back-up service from somebody like Amazon). It's cheap insurance. Another thing worth mentioning is that while this is not an "Ultrabook" it's pretty close to being that thin. While cool looking, it does mean you have an adapter for network cables and VGA displays. Nobody should need a VGA display connector anymore (the laptop has a conventional HDMI port) but if you plan to plug into a network you have the adapter to think about. Fortunately the wireless on this laptop is first rate. I've got a pretty high-end business class HP laptop from work, and this Acer blows it away on connection speeds.
So my overall impression? This is a great laptop and based on what I've experienced I can comfortably recommend it to anyone. Any doubts I had about Windows8 have been erased. It's simple, intuitive and with a touch screen, computing is kind of fun again.
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Just a note that after a week of using this laptop I still really like it. I'm finding Windows 8 is fairly intuitive to use and learn. That being said if you are really used to tweaking around in the old Windows there are some frustrating moments trying to figure it out in Windows 8. However overall they've made configuring things like privacy settings *much easier* so I think the average user will find themselves doing things in Windows 8 they would never do in Windows 7.
I still think that touch is why Windows 8 works and I'm not sure I could suggest buying a non-touch laptop with this OS. I've really gotten hooked on the "10 fingered" touch. It makes my "two fingered" touch on my phone seem antiquated. This makes me wish there were more convertible tablet/laptops out there. It seems like laptop makers are missing the market here.
74 of 76 people found the following review helpful.
Pretty darn sweet
By SkyeNoir
Acer isn't an unfamiliar brand around our house. In fact, my husband's first personally owned computer was an Acer (486SX-25, cira 1993), as were the first and second computers we bought together. Over the years, Acer's quality has ranged from excellent for the money, to dismal at best. Especially after buying up Gateway, the Acer seemed to struggle with quality. In more recent history, they're back on the upswing, but still not wonderful. So, it was with some hesitation that we got the Aspire V5, not quite knowing what to expect.
After a few weeks, I can say that we're pleasantly surprised. The V5 is quite thin and light compared to the other laptops we have around the house (Lenovo G770, Lenovo ThinkPad T420s, Compaq CQ56, HP DV4, and HP DV9000). The backlit keyboard is quite nice, both in appearance and feel. Typing away feels good, with just the right amount of tactile resistance. Of the models we have, only the ThinkPad outclasses the V5 in this area. The inclusion of a numeric keypad was an added bonus, as only our 17" models have these. For me, the addition doesn't make the keyboard feel cramped, but, my hands are on the smaller side, so this could vary. The touchpad itself is very sensitive, with a surface that lets your fingers glide right across it easily. I'm not a touchpad person myself, but I did check out the extensive adjustments and gesture control options that are built in, just before turning them off. (Yes, I know, how antiquated of me.)
The battery life is very good, with ours lasting just under 6 hours while doing some light gaming the whole time. This bested the older models we have, but came in about the same as the pair of Lenovos. Speaking of gaming, the Intel graphics chip inside isn't a slouch, but, it's not going to come close to what can be had with a dedicated gaming laptop or other laptop with decent graphics chip from NVIDIA or AMD. The CPU is certainly powerful enough, especially when backed by Intel's Ivy Bridge chipset, but expect to be turning down the graphics options if you're into heavy gaming (first person shooters, RPGs, etc). For your typical tasks, like web surfing, emailing, document creation, watching videos, playing games on Facebook or Pogo, and the like, you'll be more than happy with the performance. In terms of overall performance, I feel the V5 held put itself ahead of the rest of our pack, with most everything seeming to run a bit quicker and more smoothly than on any of our others.
Yes, V5 comes with Windows 8, but, I'm not going to try and review that, as it's a whole beast in and of itself. I would like to note that the V5 does come with a fair amount of bloatware, those programs that no one really wants but the manufacturer stick in there as a "value add" item. The V5 wasn't nearly as bad as the HPs and Compaq, which are notorious for the amount of garbage they come with. Bummer there wasn't a full copy of Office Home and Student instead of the trial version, but I can't actually complain about that since I knew that what it came with in the first place. Lastly, and the only thing I will say about Win8 is that it runs very smoothly compared to some prior new major releases (*cough* Vista *cough* WinME *cough* Win95). Not a single hitch to be had during this whole time, and we've been putting the V5 through it's paces.
Lastly, just a few bits on the V5's other features. Touchscreen! Yes, it works very well, but you'll likely love it or hate it, depending on if you like reaching up to the screen a lot and if you don't mind cleaning the screen a lot more often than on a conventional laptop. The HDMI output has come in very handy for things like gaming, watching Netflix, and web surfing on an HDTV. Our son loves it for the gaming, so he and his friends can all watch the action without having to crowd around the person at the keyboard. Sound quality is decent enough, though you're not going to get quality enough to satisfy an audiophile. The webcam is...well..meh. It works well enough, to be sure, but don't expect crystal clear and grain free image quality. It's simply not that great, at 1.3MP.
Overall, I think the V5 is an excellent machine in terms of price, performance, and features. I'm almost tempted to trade my G770 for it but...I really like the bigger screen. Our son is loving it, and as previously stated, hasn't run into a single hitch yet. Only time will tell if the quality inside is up to snuff though.
45 of 46 people found the following review helpful.Brilliant!
By Griffy
I have only been on this laptop for a few hours, but I wanted to share how great my experience has been! Yes, it's a new OS so it takes a little getting used to, but the touchscreen and the keyboard can be interchanged flawlessly and if you are familiar with previous windows versions you can get yourself going with a little brain power. Anyway, this review is for the laptop. All specs are accurate. This laptop is so thin for it's size! It is heavier than I wanted, but still light for it's dimensions. The screen is beautiful and very responsive to touch. I love the keyboard as well - back lit, but only when being used. The track pad does NOT have buttons on it, instead you need to double tap the trackpad if you don't want to use the touch screen. A little different than what I am used to but I think I can get used to it. Love all the USB ports, including one that is 3.0, and the hdmi port. Another big thing for me, an SD slot. For photo editing, this is really helpful.
Amazon's price was the same as trusted tech sites, so I went with them since I am a prime member.
Overall, I realize it's still early, but I am very impressed with my initial impressions. For the technical specs you are really getting a good deal. Acer's reputation is really not as high as it should be - they make great products.
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