Recent content by dana1

Interesting, last my two laptops have been Dell, and I've had good luck with them. I'm leery of HP because the last HP I owned was horrible. They seem to have the best prices, though.

I returned the Acer due to problems with the touchpad. I'm also looking at a Dell i3 with 4 gb of memory. HP AMD A8 6410 with 8 gb memory 750 gb hard drive I3 4030 U with 4 gb memory 500 gb hard drive

Here is a link to the exact processor comparisons: http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i5-4210U-vs-AMD-A8-6410#comments Looks pretty close. Thanks everyone for the feedback so far.

So far the HP has a much better screen quality of picture and a better keyboard. The touchpad is much easier to use. However, it is definitely slower. The Acer has a much better touch screen but low quality. I'm not a fan of the keyboard and the touch pad. However, it is a little faster...

Any thoughts on the touchscreen? The HP touchscreen is incredibly non-responsive. Not sure if it's a defect or if it's normal... I wish the HP had the Acer battery then it would be a no brainer...

I am needing a mid-range laptop for heavy school work- multi-tasking research and word processing (in my Masters program) and light gaming (mostly facebook type online). I'm currently trying two different laptops and like them both for different reasons: Acer Aspire E15 i5 processor 4 gb ram...