Originally posted on August 15, 2007 @ 12:18 am
A number of my friends recently bought Acer 4520 laptops. These laptops are from Acer’s new Gemstone series.
These babies really look good, are very affordable and packed with so many features. In fact, I can even suggest them for those who are into light PC gaming since there are models that carry nice ATI or Nvidia GPUs.
But here’s the problem, a number of them are complaining about an annoying keyboard lag. They press a key and it takes a second before it registers on screen. It’s a minor glitch, yes. But it can be very annoying, too. My friends have tried updating drivers from the Acer website with no improvements. A laptop store owner who is a member in one of the forums we go to admitted that he has not been able to duplicate the keyboard lag problem in any of the Acer 4520 units in his store. He then suggested replacing the RAM inside the laptops to Hynix modules, which some of my friends did. He may have been on to something with his suggestion because some of the 4520 owners did upgrade to bigger RAMs but they used the Kingston brand. The guy suggested Hynix because he noticed that Acer uses RAMs from this manufacturer. The result? Although some reported that the situation improve slightly — meaning the response is a little faster — the lag was still there!
My friends are pissed because they could not find any solution to this annoyance. Last I heard, they are planning to compile a list of 4520 owners who has the same problem and then contact Acer with an official complaint. I’ll keep you guys posted about this.