I want to know..anyone here..experience is upgrading 8GB RAM DDR3...

Hi, does the keyboard of this notebook suck? I used my friends v5 and I don't really like it. It hits the below point very quickly

Not that hard. You need to know that there is only 1 slot free that you can use, since the 4GB ram that the system actually came with is soldered on the board. Therefore, feasibly you can either add 4GB for a total of 8GB or add a 8GB module for a total of 12GB.

Before 2007, I was an Apple Hater.

Not hater in the sense that Apple has somehow wronged me. It is in a sense that I was more of a Windows fanboy and

No dice. Yep, for gaming, you may ignore the intricacies of fonts and writings, but I wanted something all in one. Same story all over again. Good spec, bad screen. Not to say Acer is the only one guilty here. Asus, Lenovo, Toshiba, all of them persist on shoving cheap screens with core i7 Quad Core processor with discrete graphics, and proceeded to wonder why people are attracted to Macs more than they do Windows laptops.

That is among the reason why the review for the V5-473PG got held up. I really didn’t feel like typing the review on the V5-473P itself – which is my standard practice when I decided to do this reviews. Of course, on a scale of how bad the screen is, it is not the worst (That honor goes to Y410P, Y400), but I was looking forward for someone like Acer to make a difference – Heck, they came out with the sub RM3000 IPS laptop screen. I also don’t get the fact that most of the HD quality IPS screens are going to tablets (Then again, the fact that the chief competitor to the tablets which is the iPad got IPS screens) while the notebook market is relegated to cheap screens – even when those notebooks are going to be used to actually produce content – which necessarily means using it for a longer period – which meant you need confortable screen.

So here it goes then. Like so many others, the screen s****. However, if you can get past that, it ticks the best combination of software and hardware like the responsive touchpad, enough power to run games at native resolution, nice battery life (not full day – around 6 hours managed correctly) and pricing that made sense made the V5-473PG a fair buy, over the K46CB (Until the Haswell model shows up) and the Dell 5460.

God, I really don’t like the screen.

Can I get a summary? Do u mean V5-473PG is a worth to buy? How about compare it to Dell Vostro 5470?

Been using this model since last year october. Upgraded to 12gm ram (11.88gb usable) and a free complimentary upgrade of i7 4500u processor and geForce 750 graphics from acer warranty (the old motherboard was burnt). Great performance and quality.

Running ubuntu and windows 8.1.

Thanks to their great after-sales service. I will definitely continue to support Acer in the future!

how long it took for them to replace the motherboard for u?

Been using this model since last year october. Upgraded to 12gm ram (11.88gb usable) and a free complimentary upgrade of i7 4500u processor and geForce 750 graphics from acer warranty (the old motherboard was burnt). Great performance and quality.

Running ubuntu and windows 8.1.

Thanks to their great after-sales service. I will definitely continue to support Acer in the future!

Not that hard. You need to know that there is only 1 slot free that you can use, since the 4GB ram that the system actually came with is soldered on the board. Therefore, feasibly you can either add 4GB for a total of 8GB or add a 8GB module for a total of 12GB.

Roughly how much it cost for me to upgrade my lappy to 8GB RAM DDR3?

Been using this model since last year october. Upgraded to 12gm ram (11.88gb usable) and a free complimentary upgrade of i7 4500u processor and geForce 750 graphics from acer warranty (the old motherboard was burnt). Great performance and quality.

Running ubuntu and windows 8.1.

Thanks to their great after-sales service. I will definitely continue to support Acer in the future!