Acer Aspire M3-581TG 15.6-inch Ultrabook - Aluminium (Intel Core i3 2377M 1.5GHz, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD, DVDSM DL, LAN, WLAN, BT, Webcam, Nvidia Graphics, Windows 8 64-bit) Get Rabate
Product Description
Acer Timeline M3581TG Black 156 INCH Core i3 3217 4GB 500GB Nvidia GT640M 1GB DVDRW BT Win8 NXRYKEK009 Laptops Notebooks
Good Budget Laptop for games - So far so good
I got this as a replacement for a different model from Acer that didn't work. My prime criteria was a cheap laptop that could play games to a reasonable degree. I am happy to say the laptop does that and I have been playing Battlefield 3 in medium setting with no problems at all. I don't know how it would perform in higher settings but so far so good. it looks really good. If it is a cheap laptop for games you are after this really works and for the price I couldn't find anything better at time of writing.
As for the rest I am happy with the laptop. It looks good and is very thin. I saw the comment on it not really being an Ultrabook but it is very thin and good enough for me.
Finally a point outside the normal review and not part of scoring. I tried to install Windows 7 over Windows 8 and it caused real problems. I had to send it in as it wouldn't turn on afterwards so if you don't want windows 8 - ask for windows 7 beforehand. None of this reflects on the...
Product Features
Acer Aspire M3-581TG 15.6-inch Ultrabook - Aluminium (Intel Core i3 2377M 1.5GHz, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD, DVDSM DL, LAN, WLAN, BT, Webcam, Nvidia Graphics, Windows 8 64-bit)
ASIN : B009R16P52
List Price : £549.99
Price : £460.00
You Save : £89.99
- Model Name - M3-581TG
- Memory Type - DDR3
- Sound Device - Optimized Dolby Advanced Audio v2
- Hard Disk Size - 500 GB
- CPU Speed - 1.8 GHz
This particular Acer Aspire M3-581TG 15.6-inch Ultrabook - Aluminium (Intel Core i3 2377M 1.5GHz, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD, DVDSM DL, LAN, WLAN, BT, Webcam, Nvidia Graphics, Windows 8 64-bit) perrforms excelent. user friendly and alter. The Cost of this is lower compared to other place, my partner and i other areas investigated, rather than much more as compared tp comparable merchandise.
Category: Products
Brand: Acer
Rating : 3.5
Review 1 : Good laptop; nice design
Keys are a little spaced out for my liking (being a developer I spend a fair amount of time typing/using keyboard shortcuts) but its a pretty sound device.
I instantly stripped out the good sized hard drive for a decent sized Samsung SSD; and shoved another 4 gig of ram in it. What i failed to notice (as did the memory scanner from corsair) is that the device has a maximum ram of 6 gig due to one module being user-replaceable and the other being soldered to the motherboard. Bit of a failure in an ultra-book as although not placing both modules as replaceable components probably saved a gram in weight it does mean that I'm left with a laptop with ultra-fast dominator ram on one side, and "what ever the cheapest ram was at the time" soldered to the board.
Nice screen; shame its not IPS, but bright colours; not too shabby on the viewing angle. Pretty amazing at playing games on, something I've never even bothered to attempt with modern game requirements.
Worth...
Review 2 : Upgradeable
Just a note that when installing Linux, the screen appears black, but it's just that Linux doesn't set the LCD backlight up properly for some Acer laptops, so everytime I start it up, I have to use the keyboard to increase the brightness.
Also, despite what the Acer tech support Website says, it is possible to upgrade the mSATA SSD and install the OS to it. I replaced the 20GB mSATA SSD with a 256GB SSD and was able to partition it and install Windows 8 and Linux onto the mSATA while still keeping the 500GB spinning disk for bulk storage.
The track pad is spongy, the screen is reflective and has a poor resolution (1366x768) and only the top half of the laptop is made of metal, the base feels cheap and the power connector doesn't feel like it's going to last very long.
Still, happy with the graphics card and storage capability.
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