Acer

We are a computer store, in business for nearly 30 years, and have bought and sold Acer products for many of them. Recently, we purchased a lot of Acer Vero laptops through a major retail venue for resale to our customers. This may seem trivial to some but, the fact that the R and the E keycaps would be printed backwards, in an awkward yellow color was definitely NOT emphasized in the presentation. This, according to Acer's explanation, is to highlight the importance of Reducing, Reusing, and Recycling. Thus the "R" and "E" silliness. No doubt, some Marketing weenie thought of this and sold the supposedly smarter and more experienced executives on it as a good idea. Brilliant, I tell you! We'll appeal to the environmentally conscious and to the general woke crowd, all while forcing the Stone Age Boomers, Gen X'ers, and Millennials into the the "future". This is all just part of a cynical Marketing plan that takes advantage of the current pop-culture of electric cars (without adequate electrical supply nor infrastructure to support them), recycle everything rhetoric (when, in fact, the ones who actually DO recycle ARE largely those same Stone Age holdovers), and eternal work-from-home addicts (regardless whether it makes sense or not). Never mind that the end-users would not have wanted this disfigurement on a device that they paid for! What kind of lame-brained, over-the-top, 'go-green' marketeer (and the executives who bought into it) did this? They have managed to take a generally pretty good laptop and with one stroke of someone's pen, turn it into an unpalatable joke. If you can live with it, by all means, keep your eyes open and look for them in the clearance section at bargain basement prices. Brilliant plan... ruin your own product! There have already been complaints. And then, they decided that 'built-in' Alexa was a great idea, too! That just gives our more paranoid customers an added excuse to return them, based on their belief that they are being monitored. We are in the process of trying to return the remainder of our stock.

I've been using laptops for many years. This one is quite nice as long as it is for work stuff. Gaming is OK if it is simple games. May lag a bit few times otherwise it's fine