Currently with all of the above running I'm hitting about 60C which isn't bad for a laptop.- Bloatware: there wasn't too much on it, but what was on it was really annoying to remove.- Fan noise: hasn't been a problem since I updated everything.- Battery discharging during sleep mode: doesn't seem to happen with me.

If I were using it for any gaming or video editing, I'm sure I would need to use the chip at full power and just accept the fan noise.)I tried originally dialing the chip back to something like 48% power, which is a level I saw recommended in a YouTube video

Or you may not care about the fan noise at all

I did a Google search and fiddled with the chip's power management, which seems to help with reducing the fan noise, but also seems to reduce the computer's speed and power

That eliminated the fan noise altogether, but seemed to cause significant performance lags

So finding out that this PC had noticeable fan noise right out of the box was disappointing

I don't think it's Acers fault as i see a lot of problems online with Windows 10 updates for version 1803 and i tried at least 5 fixes for this

It works as smooth and fast as the day I bought it, and now I have loaded with apps and programs.

So I took off 1 star for not having a feature that allows me to extend the time and another for Acer's inability to update their machines with this simple but useful feature, as well as for not making this limitation explicit in their documentation.

I've been operating computers for a long time - nearly 25 years, so I'm somewhat dubious as to the bells and whistles that the manufacturers of a computer puts out.

I wrote a quick cmd file to issue the command "shutdown /s