![]() Last, uninstall the trial version of McAfee LiveSafe before it turns into a nuisance who pesters you to pay like a mafia thug out for collections. And while the Dashlane password manager shows up in the Start menu, Acer's only giving you the same one-device-only free account anyone can get. Amazon and Kindle are installed, but you don't need apps to access those services. The most offensive preinstalled app is the WildTangent games store, which is filled with titles that nobody wants. MORE: Laptops with the Longest Battery Life The Satellite L55T (5:05) lasted even less time. The notebook lasted 5 hours and 20 minutes on the Laptop Mag Battery Test (web surfing over Wi-Fi at 100 nits of brightness), which is a little less than the HP Notebook 15 (5:51), Inspiron 15 (5:33) and the average for mainstream notebooks (5:51). Pack your charging cable if you're going to take the Aspire R 15 out for a day's work. The HP Notebook 15 (51,066), Inspiron 15 (52,333), Satellite L55T (66,251) and average mainstream laptop (72,229) notched better marks. Uninstall the trial version of McAfee LiveSafe before it turns into a nuisance, pestering you to pay like a mafia thug out for collections.Īrmed with an Intel HD Graphics 520 unit, the Aspire R 15 scored a 49,995 in the 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited test, which means it won't support games with high requirements, but can run titles like Asphalt 8 and the preinstalled Candy Crush Soda Saga. While the HP Notebook 15 (4:30), Inspiron 15 (4:43) and Satellite L55T (4:08) finished the test in shorter times, the average mainstream laptop took longer (5:14). The Aspire R 15 did well on our Open Office Macro Test, taking 4 minutes and 59 seconds to match 20,000 names to addresses. That's similar to the 5,400-rpm drives in the HP Notebook 15 (29.57 MBps) and Satellite L55T (29.4 MBps), but much slower than the SSD drive in the Inspiron 15 (145.4 MBps) and the category average (127.93 MBps). The Aspire R 15's 5,400-rpm hard drive took 2 minutes and 50 seconds to copy 4.97GB of multimedia files, for a speed of 29.9 MBps. The track's siren synths hit their high notes, vocals came through clearly and drum cymbals sounded crisp. ![]() The Acer Aspire R 15 blasts a lot of volume and delivered a great reproduction of James Blake's "Timeless," which filled our large conference room. While it provided a sturdy feel to each click and correctly picked up scrolling gestures, it was slow to recognize three-finger Windows app-switching swipes. The Aspire R 15's buttonless 4.2 x 3.0-inch touchpad registered my input correctly as I navigated the desktop and the internet. ![]() The Aspire R 15's touch-screen display accurately kept up with fingers as I doodled in MS Paint, and I couldn't trick it by moving my digits faster. Not only are the up and down keys half the size of the left and right keys that they sit between, but the glyphs on the keys for increasing and decreasing brightness are reversed, so you'll tap the full sun to dim and the empty one to brighten. The one problem I encountered was that Acer set the Aspire R 15's directional arrow keys in a confusing manner. Spreadsheet mavens will also appreciate the dedicated numeric keypad. The Aspire's keys offer 1.49 millimeters of travel and require 58 grams to actuate - measures that are near enough to what we hope to find in a laptop (1.5 to 2 mm 60 g). ![]() When I tested out its backlit keyboard on the typing test, I clicked my way to 75 words per minute, relatively close to my 80-wpm average. The Acer Aspire R 15's backlit keyboard feels extremely snappy and responsive, with a strong tactile feel that you don't find on most competitors. This luminous display enables solid viewing angles I saw its color stay strong at 45 degrees to the left and right. That outshines the HP Notebook 15 (220 nits), Inspiron 15 (209 nits), Satellite L55T (192 nits) and the average mainstream laptop (245 nits). The Aspire R 15's screen is also quite bright, as it emits up to 310 nits (a measure of brightness). The notebook rendered El Diablo's flaming hands vividly, dark corners of Gotham City appeared in inky blacks and Deadshot's glowing red eyepiece popped. That's worse than the HP Notebook 15 (3.5) and the Inspiron 15 (0.7), but slightly better than the Satellite L55T (4.3) and the category average (4.59). The Aspire R 15's display earned a 4 on the Delta-E test (where zero is perfect). That beats the HP Notebook 15 (63 percent), Inspi(62 percent), Satellite L55T (65 percent) and the category average (89 percent). According to our colorimeter, the Aspire R 15 can display 109 percent of the sRGB spectrum, which is impressive for a laptop in this price range.
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