These Acer machines are quite nice to use, this is my first one, i normally go for HP, but this one has an aluminium lid, back-lit keyboard, 8GB RAM and 1TB of SSD storage. Also grabbed an Acer DVD/CD drive all for just under £600. Mainly being used for ripping and doing course work. So far ‘touch wood’ it has performed excellently.
Looks like a different hinge type - they’ve probably changed it so fingers crossed you’ll be ok - on mine as you open it up the hinge comes down slightly to act as rear feet and put a slight angle on the keyboard if that makes sense. As a computer- I couldn’t fault it for the money - just waiting for the repair to be done.
A bit early to form a true opinion on sound quality as its only had a couple of hours of use but it happily drives the rega rs1s it is paired with to a room filling volume without sounding harsh. Build-wise, i noticed the rear panel is a little flexible while connecting it up and the volume control only uses the first 90 degrees of the dial which is confusing initially. Love the form factor though as it fits the intended location perfectly.