Originally posted on August 20, 2007 @ 10:58 pm
There has been a great response to my blog post about the keyboard lag problem on the Acer 4520 laptops. It seems that people who bought the laptop in other countries are also experiencing the same problem.
In that previous entry I talked about what some of the Acer owner sdid in order to address the problem — that is, they tried to swap the laptop’s memory in the hope that it may just be incompatible RAMs. But the keyboard lag still persisted. Another new tactic that was used that also proved to be ineffective was to reinstall the Windows OS on the affected units. Some people reported a “slight” improvement — meaning the lag was not as slow as before. But there were also some users who said the lag time was still the same.
From the number of users that are complaining about the keyboard lag, the inevitable conclusion that has been arrived at is that it is a system problem. The culprit being pointed at is the system bios, which really has no user level solution though. Acer 4520 users have no choice but to wait for the company to issue a bios update that can possibly address the issue of the keyboard lag.