Acer Aspire 5738ZG

...- 15.4” HD Acer CineCrystal LED LCD
- 4GB DDR3 Memory
- 1244 MB Mobile Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD
- 250 GB Hard Drive
- DVD SuperMultiDl with BluRay disc drive
- 0.3 megapixel integrated webcam
- Purchased from PC World £450

Build:
While i wouldn't say its likely to fall apart, this laptop isn't one i would fancy dropping down the stairs. After days the incredibly glossy rear screen ...
...to around an hour! .. Acer does provide a 'epower' button to help you maximize these times.

An all round average laptop, nothing special but at the price an exceptionally good home laptop, its almost designer image make it the only thing that would stop me using this as a regular laptop to commute with.  ... more

A bright 15.4 inch screen, huge hard disk, and seemingly unlimited levels of memory make this a great home laptop, this to me seems where it is best suited rather than as a business notebook. Its reasonable if not good price make this centrino laptop a very good choice.

- Windows Vista Home Premium (32 bit, Sp1)
- Intel Core 2 Duo T6400 (2.00GHz, 2MB L2 Cache, 800MHz FSB)
- 15.4” HD Acer CineCrystal LED LCD
- 4GB DDR3 Memory
- 1244 MB Mobile Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD
- 250 GB Hard Drive
- DVD SuperMultiDl with BluRay disc drive
- 0.3 megapixel integrated webcam
- Purchased from PC World £450

Build:
While i wouldn't say its likely to fall apart, this laptop isn't one i would fancy dropping down the stairs. After days the incredibly glossy rear screen was scratched and lead me to buying a laptop sleeve. The latch to unhook the screen can be somewhat fiddly at times but it works none the less.

The keys feel quite flimsy as you type them, they are incredibly flat and as a touch typer i find them often hard to navigate. To many of my non touch typist friends they are however fine. The touchpad itself is responsive and easy to sue but the buttons accompanying it have a joing panel, meaning single clicks to either side can be somewhat awkward!

The positioning of the vents is helpful because there is a front and rear allowing a good airflow unrestricted when you use on a soft surface.

The screen and all its fancy 'TFT' lettering make it a good screen but heavily draining on battery if needed on high brightness, its very clear screen and wide viewing angles luckily mean this is not often necessary.

The casing holds an array of fancy ports, and all i can say really is it has a useful multicard reader and plenty of USB ports and even a HDMI out. Alongside your regular sound and ethernet ports it has it all, certainly nothing i went without but not over the top either.

Performance:
The processor is certainly more than adequate, pushing onto desktop speeds. The memory is vast, filling the capabilities of the windows pack infarct. On these two small facts alone you can see the clear performance of this laptop, it is very reliable and while not the fastest for the price it is very good. After a few nerdy tweaking to the laptop it yielded some impressive boot times with off to log on taking around 20 seconds, and from there to loaded only taking a further 7!

Battery:
Again adequate i managed about three hours with wireless internet and simple word processing, contrastingly when i pushed it with a bit of multitasking as expected it dropped down to around an hour! .. Acer does provide a 'epower' button to help you maximize these times.

An all round average laptop, nothing special but at the price an exceptionally good home laptop, its almost designer image make it the only thing that would stop me using this as a regular laptop to commute with. 

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