popular Posted by shaknado7 • 2d ago
May 19, 2025 6:28 PM
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popular Posted by shaknado7 • 2d ago
May 19, 2025 6:28 PM
Acer Aspire 14" AI Touchscreen Laptop - Intel Core Ultra 7 258V Processor - WUXGA (1920 x 1200) Display - Windows 11; 32GB; 1TB SSD $749.99
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If you are buying for young kids maybe focus more on a good screen and keyboard. If there is a windows version of MacBook air (120hz) I would absolutely recommend it. This laptop is great for business purposes and if you don't use it too much because the screen is kind of horrible compared to other choices in the same price range. In fact you use 120hz much more than the 32gb no matter what
However, I'd prefer a 16 inch screen if it is going to be my only screen. The drawback is that the laptop might be a bit larger. I would take her to a store and have her compare 14 to a 16 to see what she prefers. I had a 16 Acer last year and if I was in college, i would prefer it over 14.
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S14 screen is...not crap but not great at all. Not really usable in any room with lights because of that reflection. I would 500% prefer anti glare ips. The color is good but 60hz and dimming kills it. I have 3 of them. While none can do 10000 on cb23 (even my 5 years old 5600g can somehow get that), one of them can get an impressive 4050 in time spy (130V). The chassis for vivobook s14 has the best cooling ability in the class. It is also light.
Again, I'm not happy with the screen at all. I have used one and throw them to employees and they all hate the screen. I'm selling them at a loss now.
What possible? Oh crap we are here again after a decade. I have been debating with people in the 2010s about why 100hz and ideally 144hz (no 120hz then) make a freaking huge difference on everyday office work and the majority of them claiming "I can't see any difference". I always ask them to check with their eye doctor or otherwise walk into the local BestBuy and check some samples. After a freaking decade, with all decent phones going to 120hz, all decent monitors even office ones going to 120hz, all decent laptops going to 120hz and adaptive including the brain dead Apple, and those claiming they can't find difference between 60 and 120hz largely disappeared from the internet, I thought I wouldn't need to explain this again because time has proven that I'm right. Sadly here we go again.
120hz gives you a big everyday work jump that makes you unable to work on 60hz anymore. If you can't understand, adjust your monitor to 30 and that's how other people see your device. You can live with 60hz forever but whenever you go to 120hz once you can't go back. It's so painful that even moving the cursor around is a punishment.
Now let's get to your resolution part. Resolution only matters user experience, not productivity on a 14 inch screen. On a 32", yes 4k makes it better than 1080p (I buy my employees all 4k 32"). But 14? Whenever you raise the resolution you have to raise the scale as well, making it exactly the same size as low resolution otherwise you can't see those words. Productivity is irrelevant when we are talking about resolution on such a small screen.
"Lunar Lake is famous for out forming MacBooks". For God's sake, where did you hear this crap? You read media titles and never check the facts? Lunar lakes is fairly efficient, correct, at the cost of hugely reduced performance. It somehow matches snapdragon on battery life at the cost of next to no performance at all on battery. The full performance when connected is mediocre as well - can't even make 10k cb23 in my vivobook s14s (226v), one of the best cooling chassis in the class. What lunar lake really shines is when you absolutely need ZERO CPU performance, long battery life and somewhat great GPU. I'm very impressed by the GPU. However, no matter which Lunar lake you are talking about, M4 basically smoke it easy pissy on single, multiple core performance and efficiency, let alone M4 pro. By the way, if my software works on snapdragon, I prefer snapdragon 10x than Lunar Lake. My snapdragon is the most snappy Windows device that I have ever own in my 30 years of playing around PCs, while the lunar lake has comparable performance on paper but lags everywhere in real life.
At the end, about the claim of the 24-30hz of video. I believe you are not a young guy since that claim came from 2000s and nobody really talk about it after 2020 because tons of research has shown that it's crap. I won't type another long paragraph proving it, but a quick ChatGPT prompt can solve your question.
Glad to hear folks having some sense. That $600 Acer deal is absolutely the best during a long time but sadly, after waiting for days and my order of two got canceled by Walmart. Fark them.
For picking up a laptop with decent screens it really comes to just three points:
1. You want a Samsung screen if you could. That's the best screen out there.
2. You want a 120hz with over 1080p (ideally 3k) resolution, even for the most basic work.
3. If you want an OLED, you need a touchscreen. The reason you need a touch screen is NOT that you need the function, but that touchscreen has a layer of glass on top of the normal crap reflective OLED screen, which not only makes it more robust and easy to clean but also much more integrated.
Whenever you get these three, you will have a long lasting love of your laptop.
BTW, I would much prefer a 120hz anti glare IPS to a crap reflective non usable cheap OLED.
Do you need 32gb and a good GPU? Can you accept a mediocre CPU performance? Do you want to sacrifice the screen, which you watch all the time while using it for these? If yes go for it. I would say it's a good work horse, but not a comfortable one.
Thank you for your reply. I forgot to mention, I use two monitors so the screen of this will stay closed majority of the time. Just need something that won't "slow down" for keeping multiple chrome tabs and Microsoft teams and rdp sessions. Currently my old Lenovo is giving up. With that being said, any other laptop within this price range for good specs with a good screen? Been looking for a while but cannot find a "workhorse". Thanks
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Where is the gpu? Don't see a dedicated GPU