subject: Acer Aspire AS5251 Review [print this page] Acer has recently skyrocketed in the list of best selling laptops with their Acer Aspire AS5251. Less than $ 400, the price can not be beaten. But is it cheap laptop pack enough punch to be considered among the best?
Of course, what interests us first on this laptop Acer AS5251 is the price. We're used to seeing the upcoming netbook rated at prices around $ 400, but not laptops. Laptops usually do not like compromises and concessions that are found on netbooks. These compromises are found in the form of a limited memory, smaller hard drives, less powerful processors, and laptop screens much smaller.
So let's see what, if any, compromises that Acer has had to do to give us this notebook AS5251 under $ 400 (the current price of $ 379 is required at many locations).
The first thing I noticed when I received this notebook was the look and feel of the machine. It is quite similar to the ASUS UL80Vt-A1, which I now rate the best laptop price / performance on the market today. The machine is black and comes with a laptop monitor with widescreen 15.6-inch offers quality sound, with integrated web cam, allowing you to easily incorporate video-chat with your friends.
The computer processor on the Acer AS5251 laptop is a 2.20 GHz AMD V Series V120 single-core processor. I am normally a devotee Intel, but AMD is fast and handles video very well with the new vision technology from AMD. Many laptops today come as you are with a "dual-core processor, but the procession should meet the needs of almost all end users.
The hard drive on this machine is 250. For our money is a lot of disk space that will meet all your needs. Remember, the hard disk of a machine has nothing to do with speed. It simply determines the amount of information you can store on the machine. If you do word processing, PowerPoint, and all other Office applications, this size is sufficient. For the rest of us, which store movies and music endlessly, we still need to buy another external hard drive for laptop computers. Thus, 250 GB will satisfy all fans, but the media who are not satisfied with the storage capacity of any hard drive.
Now when you look at the memory of this machine, we find the Acer AS5251 laptop with 3GB of DDR3 memory. Is this a compromise? Well, it's a bit like the single core processor mentioned above. Most laptops sold today most are shipped with 4 GB of memory, but one might reasonably ask: Is this an exaggeration? Again, the end user of standardization can get by with 3 GB of memory very well. In fact, I know that people still get by very well with 1 or 2 GB of memory in their machines and they are often running multimedia.
Finally, the clincher is that a good buy is that it has an HDMI port. An HDMI port is the best way to connect a laptop LCD, which is a good way to show a room full of people in your images and movies.
To summarize this study Aspire5251 Acer, I would say that this system of small sacrifices for what it offers. You have a laptop that runs above average at a price that is not only affordable, but downright cheap.
