Overall experience after 4 months of using 4745G:

Pros:
- Switchable graphics = sweet battery life, can reach ~5hours
- Nice ATI HD 5470, capable to play low-mid gaming ( some latest game with lowest setting )
- Acceptably nice design from Acer
- Cheap

Cons:
- High temperature issues especially when playing graphical games
- Crappy build-in video cam
- Very annoying Caps Lock pop-up, especially when playing games
- No Catalyst upgrade because of switchable graphics (you can still upgrade but with no switchable graphics)
- Not-so-good LED LCD screen, need to adjust at certain angle for better view
- A bit loose lid
- Quiet weak speaker (despite of Dolby Home Theater Virtual SurroundSound system... )

Recommendations (IMHO though...) :
- Upgrade your RAM to at least 4GB for better performance
- Uninstall any useless Acer applications+ trial games
- Use GOOD laptop cooler for intense gaming,and try to focus at left side of laptop
- Find yourself a good earphone/speaker/headphone. Believe me, you'll need it...

Overall: Nice laptop for expendable battery lifespan and switchable graphics, but not very recommended for heavy gamers.
(7/10)

Question though. If the warranty seal sticker at the back of laptop 'broken' (torn up) when we try to open the back casing (for example RAM upgrade), will the warranty void?

This post has been edited by Games4Life: Aug 5 2010, 11:08 PM

To me, no laptop problem = no need BIOS update.



So nope, haven't tried it yet.

14.0" ?