Comments on: Acer Aspire 9410 Review

By: Gaston - Porto Seguro

Gaston - Porto Seguro — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 15:23:09 +0000

Hi, I bought this Acer 9410 a year ago. To be honest, I have had NO PROBLEMS with it. The only thing that I had to do, was to change the Operating System, I unistalled the Vista and put W XP. Its performance was improved. My DVD burner “still” works properly as the other devices. I have no complaints. My next step is to put one more gigabyte of RAM memory.
THX
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By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 09:13:11 +0000

Lots of problems with the video. Watching video from dvd or internet download constantly crashes my machine, and I have to disconnect the power and pull out the battery to restart the computer. This happens once or twice for every hour of video. Very frustrating.

By: Pablo

Pablo — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:40:16 +0000

Running Vista, this laptop was unusable. I removed Vista and installed XP, also added 1 GB of RAM, so now I have 2 GB and I am impressed about the performance. I have an iMac and a MacBook so I have this one to experiment on work hard on it. I do video and photography, and I just finished a wedding video and it worked just great. I think is just a matter of luck, like everything. I recommend it, not for games though.

By: Steve Jones

Steve Jones — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:56:45 +0000

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.

By: Steve Jones

Steve Jones — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:55:26 +0000

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.

By: william bowen

william bowen — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:38:28 +0000

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

By: Axon Myelin

Axon Myelin — Fri, 09 May 2008 02:00:31 +0000

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.)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:53:42 +0000

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.

By: anna

anna — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:32:53 +0000

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

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:11:03 +0000

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)