Acer ES1-111M-C3CP review

Acer ES1-111M-C3CP
Acer ES1-111M-C3CP



The laptop features:

  • Windows 8.1 64-bit
  • Intel Celeron N2840 2.16 GHz
  • Intel HD graphics
  • Fanless (silent performance)
  • eMMC 32 GB (solid state disk)

Setting up the laptop

My plan was to install only a few applications:

  1. Google Chrome (browser)
  2. Dropbox (selective sync of only writing projects)
  3. Scrivener (writing application)
  4. Write! (a beautifully simple editor)
  5. LibreOffice (a Microsoft Office-compatible office suite)
  6. Scapple (free-form text
  7. Mindjet Mind Manager (mind mapping)
  8. MusicBee (audio player)
  10. Skype (video and text chat)
  11. F-lux (adjust the screen colour temperature)




Windows updates ate almost 6 GB of hard drive space!?





  • 100 MB (EPI system partition)
  • 19.40 GB (NTFS—Windows 8.1)
  • 9.5 GB (recovery partition)





Currently my ambitions are a little less ambitious:

  1. Google Chrome (browser)
  2. Dropbox (Modern UI)
  3. Scrivener (writing application)
  4. Write! (a beautifully simple editor)
  5. F-lux (adjust the screen colour temperature)









Published by

Gareth Saunders


4 thoughts on “Acer ES1-111M-C3CP review”

  1. Good to see you have increased the memory, I must try that – was it easy? The Touch-pad kept freezing on my first machine, so I now have a new one. I agree about the 32gb SSD limitation – a bit frustrating. Would it take a bigger mSata SSD, not sure – have not opened it up yet. I would also like to consider upgrading the wireless card to dual band AC. In hindsight, I probably should have bought something like this with a HDD and swapped with a standard SSD. Great for just Browsing though and handy for travel.

  2. Hi Stephen

    replacing the RAM wasn’t particularly straight forward. While many laptops have an easily-accessible hatch that allows you to quickly remove the old RAM module and replace it with another this laptop requires you to dismantle the machine.

    This guide on Acer Aspire E3-111 Disassembly will give you an idea of what is required.

    The issue with the hard drive is that it isn’t a hard drive in the conventional sense: it’s eMMC which is like flash storage, similar to an SD or MMC card that you’d fit in a digital camera. Which means that it’s soldered to the motherboard.

  3. hello, im reading on internet (and amazon comments) that people can delete restore partition of 9Gb, installing a cleaned 8.1. and later they have free 15Gb . Can you delete finally this partition??? thanks!

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