Acer Aspire V5 431 Laptop (2nd Gen PDC/ 2GB/ 500GB/ Linux/ 128MB Graph) (NX.M2SSI.002)  (13.86 inch, Misty Silver, 2.10 kg)

The delivery by Flipkart was super fast as expected.

Pros:
1. Slim
2. Display is bright
3. Battery life is satisfactory
4. Bonus: Optical disc drive with such a slim laptop
5. Rich looks
6. Bonus: Bag pack (I was not expecting this)
7. Wide screen open angle

Cons:
1. Heavy as compared other competitors in slim category
2. Extra connection needs to be carried for VGA out
3. No hardware buttons and indicator lights for Wifi and Bluetooth

I purchased it from nehru place in june 2013 for Rs 23,300 and upgraded with 4GB DDR 3 RAM on the same day.

Looks great, Performs well, but display is very bad, colours look very dull. otherwise its a good package bundled up with 3year warranty.

Also 3 USB ports are alligned adjacent to each other.

I purchased this laptop as I wanted a personal laptop running linux. And since I was getting this one with pre-installed linux for a steal I went ahead and ordered it. As usual it arrived in record time and packed like a bomb. But the linux distro installed on it was linpus. This distro sucks with no GUI and no support for power management. I downloaded ubuntu and installed it and been having a nice time since then. Dint face any issues whatsoever till date. Its been almost 1.5 months post p...