Acer Aspire 5542

Speed The first thing I noticed when I first used this laptop is the speed of it. This the fastest computer I have used in my whole life. It is so fast because it has 4gb of ram and a 2 GHz processor. It can run older games on medium to high settings, but you have to lower the settings for newer games, still, no biggie. Look and Feel This laptop has a very nice glossy blue lid, probably one of the only laptops out there apart from some dells and some sony vaios that isn't a boring shade of black or grey. I should point out that the lid does pick up fingerprints quite easily, I wipe it with a ... more

I was given this laptop as a present on my birthday and fell in love with it from the first day. Firstly the 15.6 inch wide screen really makes watching videos and playing games much better and more entertaining. I really enjoy using this laptop because of the shape of the screen and the resolution it gives. Next the AMD athlon 2.0 GHz processor is extremely fast, the laptop will turn on fully from a complete shut down in a matter of seconds which is very useful when you are in a rush to read your emails or check something out. The 250gb HDD is a high capacity and is enough for everything i ... more

Took me a while to finally settling on a laptop. Was looking at laptops that cost more than this laptop and they didn't have what this laptop has to offer. Came with windows 7 and find that the two work well together. Speed and memory are ample for a normal laptop and are capable of handling some of the more less powerful games in the market (works well with command and conquer generals on high spec). I will test it on more powerful games but I believe it should do ok. Wouldn't buy it though if gaming is the main use is for gaming. Really only thing to bring up is portability. This wasn't a ... more

Mine is with windows 7, 4GB RAM. It is very very slow to start or load anything which is really annoying. It takes minutes to start from switching on. Grrrrrr!! There is no bluetooth although it has a button for it., essential in this day and age for connecting to mobile phones or bluetooth printers. There is no firewire or express card port so you cannot link camcorder to it, although it does take other cards. It is light and very portable but feels a little flimsy as a result. In my opinion a bad buy. Get another make. You can get ones with better specification for the same price. Seriously ... more

I think that acer has really impressed me this time. This full sized laptop is perfect for my needs and life style. It is lightweight, compact, and very speedy. It loads fast and shuts down quickly. Has a very good amount of memory, the only issue i had was not being able to have sims on my laptop due to not enough ram, but other then that it allows me to do basicly everything. When i purchased this laptop i did not buy any extra add-on's or speed ups, and everything works perfectly for me. It came with a bunch of demo games even though their use is not unlimited, they were still fun to ... more