What do you guys recommend me do?

Okay, so it goes down to this:

I bought an Acer Aspire 4741G and I'm not at all impressed with it. Screen quality is terrible (inaccurate colours with a yellow/pink hue regardless of drivers and gamma/contrast setting, plus -poor contrast) and not only that, all games I've ran have either crashed, stuttered, suffered from tearing problems, or all of the above. Only a new driver can fix these problems and guess what? There aint any for the Geforce GT 330m -- nVIDIA's notebook drivers just won't install. Easily one of the worst notebooks I've owned so far, and despite all the problems, it's apparently not defective... so voila, no returns for me.

Okay, so I realize this isn't an Acer forum, please bear with me. Originally you remember me asking around about Apple notebooks no? Said I'd possibly wait for the next iMac because I didn't like the most recent Macbook Pro refresh? Looks like I was badly mistaken... I can really use the top quality of a mac right now, regardless of what model it might be.

So my question here is this -- in your honest opinion, would selling my notebook (worth US$830) now for US$630 and paying extra for a Macbook Pro 13.3" be a particularly bad idea? If it matters, I'm currently doing a 12-month payment plan for the Acer, so it'll mean I'd have to pay a premium after 9 months is up. Another option would be to man it up and simply plug in my laptop to my 24" full-HD moniter and pretend it's a desktop, maybe wait a year until my payments are over then get a Macbook Pro/iMac.

What do you guys think? Honest opinions please?

 

You are not trying to solve the issue hard enough.
You have to know the drivers install via *.inf entries therefore you have to make sure the Nvidia Device ID is present in the driver you are installing.
There are a few drivers released, Nvidia's released driver may not work because the subsys is not inside the .inf.
However I believe the Microsoft released driver 197.75 contains all the device id + subsys that exist for all Windows Laptop.
Either case it is solvable just a minor driver issue that is the fault of Acer but not out of your hands.
You can either try to reinstall the Acer Driver from their download site or here. The Microsoft released driver is 197.45.
If it still doesn't install you can do inf modding.
You can check out this thread and reformat the system and install the driver to do a clean restore of the system.
I saw many AS4741G without any screen issues at all. I noticed because this laptop came out a week after I bought a 4740G and felt peeved about it as it was selling at the same price with superior display 60% gamut.

 

Thanks, I'd check out the 197.45 driver.

Yes, the screen on the demo unit looked perfect. Maybe I got a panel from a different/inferior manufaturer, just my luck.

 

If there is a noticeable difference you can argue with the store about it or to Acer.

 

I used to trade off my Acer Travelmate to get a Toshiba Satellite because of the bad of screen and build quality.So if i was you, i will sell your Acer and borrow friends or family to get a Mac (as you want) or something better ( i recommend find a Toshiba for a cheap and quality build).

I am not really sure much how fast of laptop price in Hongkong decrease,but in VietNam Acer laptop price down very fast.So if you can sell a $630 for a $830 is lucky

PS: 你是不是香港人