Acer Aspire Go 15 Slim Laptop with 15.6″ FHD IPS/Intel i3-N305 /8GB LPDDR5 RAM/128GB SSD/Windows 11 Home/English KB/Silver 1111Capitals.com: Computers

I love this laptop. It is fast and has a lot of storage. One con I think of is the mouse pad does get stuck sometimes so it can be annoying when trying to do something. However, I really do love it. I did recently crack my screen and I am waiting to buy a replacement screen to replace it. I will update when I replace on ease of replacement. I did have to turn off the touchscreen capabilities because it was glitching a lot once broken but a simple google search helped me. I mainly use it for school but I also use it for everyday and I havent had any problems with performance.

The laptop was a fantastic purchase for my girl’s school needs. Maybe also good enough for her light gaming.

I love this laptop! It’s actually the 2nd one I’ve purchased as I spilled coffee on my other one and everyone I took it to recommened I get a new motherboard for it. However, for the price of this one, it was worth buying a new one. It’s perfect size, good size screen with lots of places to add my other two monitors, a mouse and headphones for work. I love Acer. They stand by their products 100%. Great laptop!

This isn’t the best PC laptop in the world, but likely one of the best PC laptops out there in the low $200 range. I ran it through a Passmark CPU benchmark and scored an 11,500 while attached to the charger which is quite impressive for this price range. I ordered this specifically for light duty use, and to replace a 14 year old Core i7 Dell Latitude that I ran HP Tuners software on to tune my hot rod. This Go 15 runs Win 11 Home very well. The first thing I did was take it out of S mode, deleted bloatware and other Microsoft apps that I will never use. After cleaning it up and updating it, I am thoroughly impressed with this PC, and how smoothly it actually runs. Especially since it was under $240 total with tax. The battery life seems great. I am certain it is severely lacking in battery in comparison to higher end laptops, but for what it is, 8hrs is excellent IMO. This is a huge upgrade over my old laptop, and I couldn’t be happier with the purchase.Don’t get me wrong, this is an entry level laptop for sure. If you game or heavily multi-task, get something with a more powerful processor and graphics. If you are a light user and want something that you can take with you, easily browse, easily stream video and hook up to a large TV… This will work well for that for sure.

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I needed a new cheap laptop, but didn’t want to deal with the Windows 11 garbage that others have mentioned, so I purchased this machine with the intent to do a clean linux install. Two things to note if you want to install linux on this laptop.1. The internal SSD hard drive is UFS based, and not all linux distros install the UFS module. I tried to install Ubuntu, and while the live version ran off my usb stick just fine, after install it would only boot to busybox and give me errors. If you’re an experienced linux user, you can make sure the UFS module is installed when installing your distribution. If you’re a linux noob like me, you can just install a distro that already includes the UFS module. I went with Linux Mint Debian Edition. Just make sure to turn off SecureBoot in the bios.2. This laptop comes with a MediaTek wifi card that is incompatible with linux. General consensus on the Internet is that an Intel AX210 wifi card is the preferred replacement, so I ordered one and replaced the MediaTek card. Unfortunately, my screwdrivers had a hard time gripping the screw holding the card down, and the flexing of the motherboard didn’t help. I had to use a dremel on the screw and then use a flathead to get it out. Luckily, once the screw was off replacing the wifi card was a simple process.Once I had LMDE and a new wifi card, this machine became a decent, cheap, daily driver laptop for browsing the internet, word processing, and experiencing linux as a noob. Beyond that, you get what you pay for; cheap, flimsy build quality, mushy keyboard, limited number of usb ports. But all told, a bargain if you know how to get the most out of a machine like this.UPDATE February 7, 2026:After about a year and a half of using this laptop I have more thoughts. The big one is that the 128GB of hard drive space turned out to be pretty limiting, even for a laptop that I had intended to use as a web browsing machine. I have a usb drive, so I wasn’t too broken up about the limited storage on the laptop, but something happened that made me find a different solution. About a month ago, for reasons I can’t figure out, the laptop wouldn’t boot. I got a message on power-on that said “No boot device.” I wasn’t sure if something happened to the internal storage or if LMDE corrupted during an update.I figured that was as good an opportunity as any to try an upgrade that I had been mulling over. This laptop has a slot for an nvme m.2 SSD, so I purchased one, opened the laptop up and installed it. I installed linux on the new SSD, this time standard linux mint instead of linux mint debian edition, since you don’t need a UFS module to install on an nvme m.2 SSD. After a successful install I used smartctl to check the health of the internal UFS storage and… no problems, and I’ve been storing data on UFS and have had no issue. I guess my linux install got corrupted somehow, which is good to know. I do think I prefer standard linus mint over debian edition if only because there are a handful of programs that currently work more reliably on standard mint (Spotify in particular).The only other real issue I’ve had in the year and half that I’ve owned this laptop is that I’ve had to replace the power cord, but that’s true of every laptop I’ve ever owned. Otherwise, my final review of this thing hasn’t really changed. It’s a decent, daily driver laptop once you turn it into a linux machine. You get what you pay for, including limited internal storage, but you have the option to upgrade that if you’re willing to spend the money.

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