Even after unscrewing the back case, it's held in place along each edge by several tiny hinges like a cheap plastic smartphone

The on negative I would give it is the case, the top plastic is not rounded well on the edges where it joins the screen making it feel cheaply made.

I added ram to it and the cheap plastic arms/clips that hold the ram cracked when I pressed the ram stick down.

Other than the drive, the bottom feels super plastic-y and cheap, and so does the optical drive.

Other than the drive, the bottom feels super plastic-y and cheap, and so does the optical drive.

Since the plastic around the screen is so cheap, there is little protection for your screen

As well as the laptop being made with very, very cheap plastic for $600, it did crash on me in the first week

After finding my own drives would not fit as pictured, I was informed after all the money I spent on the laptop that I would need to purchase a proprietary plastic kit that was actually not included.

It’s look great but feels like cheap plastic, but it seems to be very durable

Biggest qualm is the cheap plastic construction.

Even after unscrewing the back case, it's held in place along each edge by several tiny hinges like a cheap plastic smartphone

Only con is the cheap plastic

The keyboard deckplate is metal, and it is nice, but the underside of the computer is all cheap plastic.

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

I took literally 5 minutes and dropped a 1T hard drive in the empty drive bay and someday, perhaps, I'll drop another 8 meg of RAM into the empty slot.

The perfect blend of old (DVD drive) and new (decent mobile GPU, SSD, USB C, and IPS