Do not buy this laptop
349354
I would rate this at 0 stars.
The network card resets every few minutes no mater what type of WIFI source you connect to.
I have returned this chrome book to Samsung where they replaced the card with me paying for shipping.
The network card has the same issue it did within several minutes of use.
I will be returning this again at my cost to get another network card.

Also an issue is complete lack of technical support by the manufacture Samsung. You have one option submit a ticket, and send in with out any acknowledgement the problem was identified or resolved.
647866
The great thing about this laptop is obviously its specs...the only reason I shelled out a grand. But the worst part about this laptop is its quality, its horrible. Within just 2 months of purchasing the laptop, I got hard drive failure messages and HP's customer service is actually pretty good. But still a very long process to get that replaced, this just a pain in the a$$.

How does a laptop break in just the first 2 months. Also the battery life is HORRENDOUS.. Around 2 hours battery life may seem good enough to some but if was to shell out that much money, I am sure they could have placed a battery life which could last 5-7 hours.

Overall, I would say, DO NOT BUY IT...Just trust me and do your self a favor.
After I get the hard drive replaced I am planning to sell this laptop on ebay and buy a Macbook
4054364
I recently purchased this laptop for college work, video production, and some medium-heavy gaming. Unfortunately, I have experienced two broken models. The first model I purchased had speakers that did not work. The second computer, which I received on March 16th, broke five days later, experiencing a blue bios screen that is impossible to exit. If I was not in a predicament with my schooling, I would send this computer back and receive a refund. I do not recommend this computer to anyone. Although I enjoyed its speed of booting up, it's ability to handle gaming (albeit running a little too hot), it does not alleviate the horrible experience that I have had with this computer so far.

The only positive light from my experience with this laptop has been the superb customer service of Amazon. I hope that after I receive my second replacement, or rather my third model, it will work. If not, I believe even a star is too much for this too, too often broken and malfunctioning computer.
2427863
Beware! don't buy it. this series of dell laptop have graphic card  issues. I bought this laptop and hardly used for 150 days. Now display is gone.
Waste of money
4311286
DO NOT BUY THS LAPTOP. It s a piece of crap.  The battery life sucks, it dies after 1.5 hrs.  And that was brand new!  It gets scary hot.  The keyboard keys only work when they want to, it's an immense inconvenience to try and go back to retype all the letters that decided to start working.  The number pad to the right also decides to work when it feels like it.  I was never a fan of the whole Beats brand name, always considered it an overpriced scam that never really brought any value, other than looking cool to the public.  So, I blame myself for getting sucked into buying this piece of crap.  The laptop is crap.  I don't like the constant reminders about OneDrive and the fact that my drive is full, in an effort to try and get me to purchase more space.  Another scam.  Going back to Sony VAIO.  Who's with me?
4571166
Purchased 01/2017 and already having issues.  Laptop began shutting down on its own frequently and throwing a critical shutdown error (among a myriad of new warnings).  The laptop is under warranty, but I'm told that I have to ship my laptop to ACER at my own expense and once it arrives at their shop they will return it after 7-10 days.  This is unacceptable for a laptop that is 7 months old.  I'm currently in the midst of a job search and require the laptop to answer questions online during interviews. It is unacceptable to have a laptop out of commission for 3 - 4 weeks at 7 months use.  Other minor annoyances with the laptop that I was willing to live with were similar to other complaints found in the reviews; screen and audio quality.
I will never buy another ACER.
3440811
I have used it for 10 months. Then the OS crashed, and the reboot can't stay long. So, I sent it to ASUS, they reinstalled the Windows and sent it back to me. Although I told them the OS kept crashing, they didn't even diagnose this issue. When I received, I found the OS crashed again. So, I again sent them back. They replaced the HDD with a new one as they thought it was HDD issue. This time, after using 7 days, the OS crashed again. I have been told to send the device again to them. Three times I had to sent, yet they cannot figure out what the problem is.
I am never buying ASUS laptop again.
3273714
I bought this laptop in May, 2014.  Overall it's been disappointing for the following reasons.

1.  Battery life is mediocre, about 2 to 3 hours.
2.  Haswell i3 processor is not particularly fast.  I bought this laptop to replace a 3 year old HP laptop with an AMD Llano processor that wasn't much slower than the i3.
3.  Glare on the screen from nearby lighting is pronounced.  Reading the screen in or near sunlight is nearly impossible.
4.  Cheap keyboard.
5.  Starting a few weeks ago, screen began to flicker occasionally and will need to send to Asus for repair.  Asus customer service makes it hard to send in for repairs.

I do not recommend that anyone purchase this laptop.
4939600
Bought this laptop at Best Buy at full price of $1400. The hardware is s***ty, and I have had problems with it crashing since day one, in fact, the one I bought first was defective and had to be returned for a new one. The software is all trash, I uninstalled all of its crappy Lenovo software and put on the right software. They even have a startup phishing program on it called Superfish that takes your information and sells it to people. The computer has sharp edges that actually cut you quite deeply when using the mouse-pad. 10/10 would not buy again.
4688162
While the specs of this computer and its attractive price may seem appealing, if you do anything other than surf the web or check your email, save your money and do not buy this computer. I have had this computer for 2 years since I bought it for $499.99 from Office Max.

All of the reviews on here about the motherboard/ hard drive failing are correct, at least in my case.

Everything was great about this PC until late within the first year when I had my first motherboard failure. After hours on the phone with an off-shore call center, I had to send my computer to the factory (their expense) where it was diagnosed and fixed which took a little less than 2 months. A few months later the hard drive blew. I lost all my information and they sent me a new internal one to install. This was after the computer froze at the Blue Screen of Death for days without being able to turn on. For weeks it would take at least 4 attempts to start the computer as pushing the on button did nothing more than make it sound like it was starting up. The hard drive fixed the problem for the time being.

This past week, the situation where it will not start up happened again. It sounds and looks like all conditions of it turning on, except for the fact it doesn't go to or past any boot screen. After speaking with an off-shore call center worker and finding out that the computer is no longer under warranty, he became frank with me saying I should never have bought it in the first place.

Yes, the tech-support worker recommended that no one buys this particular Slimline PC.

Not only do all the parts cost double than similar parts for normal desktops, the tiny cramped space inside the computer overheats easily.

The guy from tech support recommended buying a new PC all together as the price of a diagnostic/motherboard/shipping would be roughly $350 out of warranty. He advised me to stray away from Slimlines because they are not worth the hassle.

If you want a smaller desktop PC, get an All-in-One or a desktop replacement laptop. This PC just is not worth the hassle, as tech-support even said.

(I used this product as my main computer for 2 years through college and home use. I watched and downloaded videos, played games, and edited pictures for most of my use of it as a media center PC. I worked four years as an IT supervisor and rarely have seen computers need to be fixed as much as this one.)
4287631
I brought this laptop last year 2012 on amazon because i was looking for cheap apple laptop. This  laptop is very heavy for me and the battery inside not good. It run out fast and it needed to be plugged on a charge while using.  It doesn't let you download nothing and it asks for password, it has a 1999 system. I regret buying this laptop and I've wasted my money on it.  Think twice before you purchase it
4405777
ASUS has the single worst customer service and warranty program I have ever had to deal with. If you do buy their product, you'd better pray that you don't have any problems with it, because you won't get any help from ASUS. In the year that I had one of their laptops, mine broke down 5 times. Every time I sent it into their 'service' center, the part they replaced failed again within months, or even weeks. At the end I was so sick of spending hours and hours on the phone with them, paying to have my laptop shipped back time and again for repairs that I gave up. Amazon was great enough to offer me a partial refund for the unit, but ASUS refused to do anything. They also promised call backs from supervisors on at least 3 occasions and I still have never heard back from them.
Please save yourself the horrible headache and loss of data and time. Stick with Toshiba, or really anyone other than ASUS.
4536822
Had problems from the first day. I wouldn't recommend buying this laptop.
3008148
crash and send it back to be repaired 3 times in 4 months. No one care the feel of buying an useless laptop. You can not return it and you need to repair it yourself after the warranty year pass. I can not believe why such a disgusting laptop can be sold on Amazon.
4612823
Just an FYI, I never bought this off of Amazon but straight from Lenovo. I don't remember how much it costed back then.

TL;DR: Do NOT buy this laptop. It will not last. Compromises are made.

When I first received this laptop, I was pretty excited. It has pretty high specs for the price (at least back when I bought it). Intel Core i7 processor, 8 gb of RAM, and 1 TB HDD? This is the quintessential budget-friendly laptop for the ambitious college student. After two years of use, I've experienced the following:

While I owned it, I was pretty satisfied with this laptop for the most part. It performed well in light gaming usage, video viewing, drafting documents, etc. There wasn't much that this laptop would do poorly. Probably the worst thing about this laptop when I first got it was the tracking pad. It worked, but the cursor/tracking would act erratically on just about every use. It would skip or lag, and move in undesired directions. Luckily, this would stop after a minute or less of waiting. Still, it is a very annoying occurrence. The tracking pad probably is not terribly accurate either.

Another problem I had with this laptop is the display. It's nice that it is full HD, but the colors are completely inaccurate. When I was color grading a beautiful photo of a bay in Vietnam on Photoshop, I up-ed the green hue in the water just a teensy bit to my satisfaction. I uploaded the photo onto Facebook and viewed it on my phone. The water looked WAY too green. Almost to a grotesque level. On the laptop display it looked fine. I've read about other reviews for this laptop and they've mentioned the inferior quality of the display. Color accuracy is just not there. Not good if you're into video editing. I haven't even looked at all the other photos I've edit-ed so far with a more color accurate display yet. I fear for the worse.

Finally, this laptop is structurally weak. The screws, even with Loctite on the screws added by the manufacturer, would come loose randomly and fall right out. I've lost 4 of them so far and luckily recovered some of them. This is an inconvenience that might lead to the internals possibly being damaged. There is bending near the optical disk drive as well.

One day, I accidentally dropped a cellphone near the trackpad and the laptop suddenly went black. I tried to reboot it and it powered on. However, only a black screen would be on the display with no cursor. I tried messing with the internals but could fix the issue. I suspect a problem regarding RAM chip. Either the RAM chip itself got damaged, the seating is broken, or the connectors are kaput. Either way, a laptop chassis should be durable enough to protect the internals from such minor impact. However, this laptop failed spectacularly in this case.

All in all, this is a solid laptop as far as specs are concerned. Great processor, decent RAM, and good capacity hard drive(HDD's not too fast, but it works). However, the awful build quality, poor track pad, and horrendous display debilitates what would otherwise be a good laptop. I do not recommend this laptop to anybody. Even with good specs, it's just not worth it.

Pros:
+ Full HD screen
+ i7 Processor
+ 8 GB of RAM (Good for casual use such as typing documents, presentations, video streaming)
+ 1 TB of HDD storage
+ Decent enough typing experience

Cons:
- Display is of poor quality (Not IPS, bad color accuracy, poor viewing angles, not very usable in sunlight)
- Trackpad is among the worst (Stutters and lags)
- Build quality is poor (Broke from a cellphone, optical disk drive is loose, bending plastic)
- Terrible battery life (2 hrs. or less even with normal usage, no gaming)
- Speakers aren't too good
4384800
Bought this Laptop in 2014 for $288.99. It came with Windows 8.0 preinstalled and was very slow to begin with, constantly taking little breaks of unresponsiveness and taking forever to load standard applications like Firefox. When it tried to run the accumulated Windows updates, nothing was seemingly happening, with progress indicator stuck at 0% for many hours and 100% CPU load. Called ASUS, was told to call Microsoft. Called Microsoft, jumped through the usual diagnostic hoops of excluding all kinds of obviously wrong diagnoses (no, there's nothing wrong with my router that has been faithfully serving my 3 desktop machines for years)  only to confirm in the end that this is normal behavior. Let the machine run over night and behold, the update eventually completed.

Upgraded to Windows 8.1, machine remained painfully slow and unresponsive for every day tasks like web browsing. Touchpad kept driving me crazy with its tendency to create unintended left or right clicks.

A few months ago, I upgraded to Windows 10. Machine became even slower. I decided to get rid of Windows altogether and just install Linux. The UEFI BIOS didn't like that at all and not only would no longer let me boot, but after powering off, the laptop was bricked altogether. No light from plugging in the AC adapter, no response at all from holding down the power button. There are multiple internet reports of the same thing happening to other people.

So I called ASUS support about this. Of course, the laptop is now out of warranty, and I'd have to pay to have it fixed. I was quoted an estimated price of $300. That's more than I paid for this POJ, and double (if you count shipping charges) of what it would cost to just by a 'new' used one here on Amazon at this time.

I tried to explain this to the ASUS guy I spoke to, that I'm not throwing good money after bad money, and paying what it would cost to buy a new laptop to get this one fixed. He agreed, but would not offer me any other option. I went through the motion of getting an RMA authorization, but I'm not going through with it.

I'm obviously never buying an ASUS laptop again after this experience.
2783036
DO NOT BUY THIS LAPTOP

My sister gave it to me because my laptop HDD isn't working anymore. I can't believe she actually spent almost $200 on this piece of crap! It's slow with only 2GB RAM,1.6GHZ processor, a 32GB HDD. The worst part? You cannot upgrade any of these components in this laptop. The specs are as is and will stay like that. If it wasn't free than I wouldn't even be using this and I feel so bad my sister is naive with electronics buying or else I would have told her to go to Walmart and get a laptop at the same price that has way better specs.