Bad design, Acer

rasqual

Introduction: I'm an education I.T. person. The inexpensive Acer 720 is clearly positioned to challenge the Samsung model that's taken education by storm during the past year.

 

So what does Acer do? Creates a great machine that we'd like to switch to...

 

... then puts the charging LED on the opposite corner of the machine from the charging port.

 

What were you thinking, Acer? Guess what -- when these things are in their carts/bins/tubs/racks/whatever for charging, a teacher/resource person will frequently wish to disburse them based on whether they're fully charged. 

 

Information for Acer: storage/charging containments are designed so that the charging port is right in front of your eyeballs, easy to plug in and unplug. That's where the LED should be to show whether the charge is full -- not around the corner of the machine at the opposite end of a different side of the device!

 

This is a major disappointment. I have no idea how engineers who are obviously capable of designing a great machine, could be so uninformed about the ergonomics of storage/charging in education, which is clearly the target for this machine. 

 

There's nothing you can do about it now except let folks adapt to this faux pas.

 

Other than that -- great machine. Seems there's always a fly in the best ointment.  

Acer-Brad

I highly suggest you post this into the Ideas segment.  This way this feedback will get to the right folks at Acer who decide our product roadmap and the feature sets.