Acer Aspire 9410 Review
For its price, the Acer Aspire 9410 laptop launched in May is pretty solid. However, according to a review of the 17-incher by BIOS Magazine, it lacks several key features that are now pretty much standard in desktop replacement notebooks.
Among the “missing” specs include FireWire or DVI ports, a memory card reader (which is a real surprise since most Acer notebooks this size ship with one), and a built-in webcam (which quite a number of new(er) Acer notebooks come with). In addition, BIOS contends that for its weight and size, we should be looking at better multimedia features or at the very least, a better graphics card.
With all that said, the 9410 still gets a strong rating of 7 out of 10, plus a reasonably favourable conclusion of: “For the price, the Aspire 9410 meets the criteria for a performance machine. An Intel Core Duo Processor and 1GB of RAM is enough to handle several tasks at the same time, such as running an anti-virus suite, creating a PDF file, and transcoding a video file - which primarily burdens the processor - but power users or those looking for more jazz should probably look elsewhere.”
July 26th, 2006 05:37
[…] PC Advisor comes in with the second review of the 17″ Acer Aspire 9410, but unlike BIOS Magazine’s review, it’s not in-depth enough and numerically rates the 9410 a little to high for my taste. […]
April 21st, 2007 11:45
I have acer aspire Bought from staples. What a peace of garbage. door fell off cd rom . one usb port fell apart, mic plug broken. cant get free up grade for vista. I have owned for 3 months. Not a good buy. If have it sol, from staples and acer. You dont have any choice but to keep it and hate it. I $1000,00 in it. Then I got the money for vista that i had to buy for it. And almost all the patches and down loads dont work for vista. there web site sucks. It is slow slow that it must have been from the stone age. not a good point for a computer company. I hate this thing they call a computer.
December 20th, 2007 18:44
Dito on Acer’s download site for patches needed for Vista Upgrade. I also had to buy Vista and now can’t clear up problems with the modem, web cam and the Texas Instrument Flash Media Device. The computer was shipped back to Acer twice under warrenty for sound problems and they never did correct the problem. After loading Vista and downloading a patch for the sound it corrected the sound problem.
February 11th, 2008 02:41
i installed 4 gig of ram and the bios as windows only shows 3 gig im runing windows vista 32bit and i dont know what to do ram isnt that cheap and i would like it if i dint have 2 throw away 1 gig of ram
this is an exelent machine and i would give you advise 2 buy it
March 6th, 2008 21:47
that’s because 32 OS will only see 3.25 gigs of ram, no matter how much you put in. ever wonder why memory is so cheap now???
April 10th, 2008 11:11
I cannot in all honestly say whether the machine is good bad or indifferent. Since the laptop was purchased I have had nothing but trouble. 1st off the seller refused to help. Then Acer Company took the notebook in for repair. This has taken place 3 times a the time of writing.
I therefore can only conclude that the repair department woefully lacks skilled personel. Since the Aspire 9410 notebook still continues to have the same fault. ie will NOT perform consistently, CANNOT write to a disc though it displays that a disc is being written to but will take 2 days and 8 hours to complete (315 mb of data)
April 11th, 2008 05:32
History of Acer Aspire 9410 notebook SR Num: LXAZ90X017703040032000
April 2007…purchased
May 2007…not performing consistantly
June 2007…not performing consistantly
July 2007…not performing consistantly…returned to Acer
August 3,2007 repair report states DVD drive was replaced
August 2007…not performing consistantly…
September 2007…not performing consistantly…returned to Acer
October 1,2007…repair report states mainboard was replaced
October 2007…not performing consistantly
November 2007…not performing consistantly
December 2007…not performing consistantly
January 2008…not performing consistantly…returned to Acer
February 6,2008…repair report states mainboard was replaced
March 2008…not performing consistantly
April 9,2008…reluctantly agreed to return it to Acer for the 4th time
July 2007-April 2000
……unit has had 3 mainboards and 2 DVD drives
….. returned from Acer three times with the problems unresolved
……many phone calls made to Acer
……two letters faxed and unanswered
……many hours of frustration
……more than 9 weeks in transit for repairs
……complaint made to Better Business Bureau
……only solution from Acer is to return it for repair again
……no confidence in Acer products, customer service, or technical capability
April 18th, 2008 14:53
I have 2 of these and Bought them for $ 600 ech brand new from staples 1 year ago.
I love these things. Not a gaming machine but a great laptop all arround.
Acer support staff are daemons, they suck big time. Buy a stores warrenty and just let them deal with it.
May 8th, 2008 18:00
I’m a writer…. Bought one July 2007 on sale at Staples - put it through the paces w/ word processing and graphic software, ten hours a day w/o one wrinkle since purchase.
Suggestion: A memory upgrade to 4GB RAM might help consistency. NewEgg has a great deal going right now on item # 20-134-549 - Kingston KVR667D2SO/2GB… You will need to buy two ($36.99 ea.)
August 2nd, 2008 07:38
i bought this acer 9410 about a year ago from a guy who was having issues with it. i wiped the hard drive and it worked fine however the built in webcam is no longer working. ive downloaded the latest drivers and it just keeps saying the cam is unplugged. um….im not Einstein but how can a built in cam be unplugged? i looked through the device manager and there seems to be an issue with the system recognizing the cam. in any event it seems to have run good until it was thrown on the ground by an angry ex. after fixing it again its back in shape, but still have the webcam issue though
August 24th, 2008 21:55
I too have had consistent reliability problems with my 9410. I tried to bump the memory to 4 gigs and it choked on it. When back to the original sticks and it ran ok. Retried and the same thing happened. Would not go through a normal restart. Tried a 2 Gig config and it seems to be stable. Even though Acer swears that this machine is good with 4 gigs, I have had stability problems. I strongly suspect a lame Bios.
August 24th, 2008 21:56
Also, the DVD on this unit sucks big time. I have never had such problems with laptops and this is my 10th one. It is my first Acer, and likely my last.