Acer laptops

Raised as a usability problem by 18 people on Hacker News over 19 years (2008–2026), in 17 threads.

People raised many different problems with Acer laptops, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 17 complaints

Keys type wrong characters and some need Fn held down2025-08-24
Laptop was so slow it felt unusable even as a teenager2022-11-18
Laptop becomes very slow to turn on and use within months2022-10-24
Laptop borderline unusable with Windows, not even native resolution2022-01-17
Warranty repairs take forever and often fail to fix the actual problem2021-07-01
Unintuitive, undiscoverable behavior that is undocumented and unexplained by tech support2021-07-01
System feels really slow when running several apps like Visual Studio and Outlook2020-05-09
Trackpad is so bad it makes the whole laptop nearly unusable2018-04-08
Slows badly with more than 10 tabs open, and background music stutters while browsing2017-10-05
W key dome gone, making the keyboard really hard to use for gaming2017-01-29
Narrow viewing angle means screen can't show center, top and bottom with good contrast at once2016-03-12
No middle button, so scrolling with the TrackPoint is impossible2015-04-25
Installing Linux needs BIOS changes, RAID setup and recovery CD tricks, taking a week2014-04-24
Small screen made typing a paper on the netbook a horrible experience2013-08-02
Preinstalled software makes new laptop nearly unusable at first boot, requiring long uninstall work2012-09-14
Palm touches the touchpad while typing, clicking elsewhere and misplacing text2009-09-28
Preinstalled Linux was unusable and modded to look like Windows, confusing users2008-12-17