Acer Aspire AS7736Z-4809 Laptop - 17.3" HD+ Widescreen / Intel Pentium Dual Core T4300 / 4GB Memory / 320GB HD / 8X DVD-Super Multi / Webcam / Windows 7 Home Premium Review

I bought this computer yesterday evening and used it less than 2 hours so far. I am very happy with the product - may be Windows 7 gets much of the credit.

I have two other laptop computers, one is a 8 year old VAIO and another is a 4 year old Toshiba. So, I am not up-to-date with laptops and you may find some of the things that impressed me are not really new cool features.

1 - Wireless worked without having to do anything. Windows 7 detected our SSID, prompted for WEP key, and just connected.
2 - There is a push button next to the touchpad to enable/disable the touchpad. When you are going to type a lot of text, just disable the touchpad.
3 - The system prompted me to create the recovery disks. It said I needed 3 DVD disks and I had just 3. First recovery disk created fine, second one failed complaining disk errors, so I gave my 3rd blank disk and it successfully created the 2nd recovery disk. I have to buy more disks to create the third recovery disk. I wasn't using top quality disks, so I am willing to give the benefit of doubt to the computer.
4 - Webcam worked OK - I only took one snapshot.
5 - Hard disk was partitioned into two drives. None of the computers I bought so far had done that. I always do that myself and I was happy to see that they saved me about half an hour work.
6 - Power adapter brick is surprisingly small - power inlet is on the left side (towards back), and the cable tip is in L shape which is very convenient. Some manufacturers (HP?) make the tip straight and it takes up additional space and causes unnecessary stress on the cable.
7 - It looked like the battery was charged completely in one hour - the charging light turned from red to blue and the try icon showed full charge.

Overall, I think the computer is designed and built well. I will update the review as I find new things.

Update 12/17/2009:
Lid is a finger print magnet. Other than that, I didn't come across anything negative about this computer.Get more detail about Acer Aspire AS7736Z-4809 Laptop - 17.3" HD+ Widescreen / Intel Pentium Dual Core T4300 / 4GB Memory / 320GB HD / 8X DVD-Super Multi / Webcam / Windows 7 Home Premium.