Acer Chromebook R 11 Convertible Laptop, Celeron N3060, 11.6" HD Touch, 4GB DDR3L, 32GB eMMC, C738T-C7KD

This unit is "pretty" and stylish, so my high school daughter was attracted to it for that reason. I would have purchased a rugged military grade ASUS C202SA-YS02 but it was not as pretty as this Acer, so, in order to please her I bought this Acer. Being a girl, I figured she would be gentle with it and she was. However, with in the first few months the Wi-Fi stopped working and it was repaired under warranty which got her through the rest of the school year; when I spoke to the repair technician they confessed this unit has a history of Wi-Fi receiver problems. Then it rested some over the summer (in other words, not much use). It has been about 2 months into the school year and the Wi-Fi has stopped working again, only a few days after the warranty expired. Acer wants $170 to just look at it then add the repair cost on top of that. The unit cost $275 to start with, so it is not worth repairing. Buyer-beware! UPDATE: I repaired it myself for $12. I had nothing to lose since it was a paper weight otherwise. Upon taking off the bottom cover I spotted the wireless communications chip (pictured) and googled the model number to find resellers. compupartsolutions.com had the best price but yours maybe different. The shame of it is knowing it took me 15 minutes and $12 to fix it and Acer wanted to rob me of $170 just to look at it.

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There are certain very basic tasks that this computer can do... but unfortunately, there are lots of things that it cant do. A lot of app software is really only good for mobile devices but they use the same app store because theyre idiots. A lot of websites dont work properly with the Chromebook, even though youre using the SAME browser. Its just that Chrome doesnt work the same with a Chromebook as it does with Windows. Why? Who knows! Also, my computer has been having lots of problems with associating files to the right apps... and unfortunately, theres some glitch in my system that prevents me from being able to manually associate files with the right apps... and the chromebook support told me that its a hardware issue somehow thats only associated with my chromebook. Seems unlikely but whatever, Ill go with it. Overall, this thing can do very basic stuff, sometimes. But even basic stuff around my business it cant do so I cant even just travel with it because it doesnt work on my site when I need to make basic editing changing. Oh well, lesson learned. Hopefully in 10 years theyll have this figured out and it wont suck so badly. Until then, Im going back to a regular laptop with Windows on it. Its a great idea, lightweight, easy to use, simple... unfortunately, its reality isnt nearly as good as the idea it was built upon.

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