Issues with the new Acer Aspire AS8940g

Edit: Somehow in my exhaustion I missed the giant 8940g owners lounge thread just below this...fail. I don't know how to delete this thread or move this post, so I am going to leave it here for now.

I recently purchased this computer after much searching and finding it the best bang for the buck on the market at the time, upon arrival though I found it to have a few problems - which I'm not sure are errors with the manufacturer, or settings I'm misunderstanding.


The first problem is the trackpad: It becomes completely unresponsive for about 1-2 seconds whenever a button is pressed, I'm not sure if this is an accident prevention feature I'm unaware of, or a hardware error.


The second problem probably isn't an accident, the 8940g comes with an Acer Cinebass Tuba, basically a bass booster speaker right beside the screen. The tuba is split into two different speakers, but only the right one outputs sound. I'm not sure if I should treat this as a hardware, or driver issue.(I've had a lot of troubles with drivers thus far as well.)

Before contacting the seemingly infamous acer support service, I thought I would come here and try to ask someone else, anyone, who owns the 8940g if their system experienced similar issues, or if I'm just ignorant of a minor easy fix.

Any response would be greatly appreciated, thanks.