14" Acer laptop E5-475-59NU

Thanks. But no, that's not it. I can read Chinese, and I went on a couple online sites, Taiwan where Acer is based. None. BTW, the amazing thing is, similarly equiped laptops cost more in Taiwan than in the USA. Go figure.

There are like almost no 7th generation i5- chipset models available in the Acer Aspire E5 series. They list them on their website as new models available, the few listed on Amazon say they are out of stock, may be available in a month or 2. I think Acer has begun shipping them yet. Bet there will be arrive by Thanksgiving.

Fortunately, Google/Shopping turned up one called F4-573-55LV at MicroCenter. Nobody else has it. Lucky me there is a MicroCenter 10 miles from home. This one you can only pickup in the store, not shipped. It matches E5-475-59NU in every way except that it's got no HDD but twice the SSD, 15.6" instead of 14" (but same FHD resolution), thus slightly bigger and heavier but has numeric keypad, a positive. They just dropped it from $599 to $499, so it's only $20 more than $479. The F5's cover is aluminum, so stiffer than E5's plastic, looks cooler.

I think I would really prefer the 14". The 15.6" is very LONG, almost as long as my former 17". And its SSDHDD hybrid drive means I won't need to go get a 1 TB HDD and install it myself. I have 15 days to see if I like it.  Being the cheapskate, I would actually have settled for the E5-575-33BM at $349 ($150 SAVING) if only Acer didn't lock you out of adding an SSD for an upgrade. The support on Amazon emphasized that Acer does not provide the kit nor the pin on the board needed to receive an SSD for that line. The speed of the OS & application improve drastically with SSD rather than 5400 HDD.

brummyfan2, lucky you, it does seem that Acer makes exclusive deals with a few retailers, and offers them specific models that nobody else carry. Same here with a $499 F5-573 at MicroCenter in the US which is so much cheaper than other comparatively equipped laptop, Acer brand or others. Though I loved the hardware, it was sleek & well made and totally silent due the lack of a HDD, but reluctantly decided to return it because the new Edge on Windows 10 came to a crawling hault just after 1 week of usage, much slower than my 6 year old Toshiba running off Windows 7. I mean, what would be the point! Going to Firefox didn't solve my problem, the OS refused to let me download Chrome within a reasonable timeframe. I thought maybe it's my wireless router, so I bring the laptop right next to it, not helping. Edge refused to load sites, but if I go to MSN.com, the default Edge front page, it loads immediately (probably cached) then all the other pages started loading! What in the world! Did research on Google, various techs offer various advices on how to improve Edge's performance on Windows 10. Now, think about this, why should a brand new web browser, on a brand new fresh Windows 10 OS install, on a brand new pc, using 7th gen i-5 chipset with 8GB of DDR4 RAM and running on only SSD, require user tinkering to run smoothly? Without having to sit there and watch images load and that swirling indicator that it's still trying?

Those idiots at MicroSoft, I hate Windows! I used to manage 50 workstations running Windows, they kept me busy leaving very little time to do real projects. I think I am probably going to spend twice the money and get a Mac instead, very reluctantly. I have been using an older iMac for 6 months, courtesy of my son's hand-me-down, since my Toshiba started acting up, I can have 20 tabs open on Safari, NOT once did it have me sit for the graphics to load, or wait for YouTube video to play, or give me any trouble and I can leave it on for weeks without having to reboot to get it going. I guess that's the difference between an open-ended OS, where you can have endless possibilities of options at competitive pricing and a closed OS where you get only Apple products at a premium! I am beginning to see why the Apple die-hards swear by them.