Acer 5520 Laptop : Specs, reviews and prices.

Acer 5520 Laptop

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on August 22, 2007 10:55 AM | Permalink

The Acer Aspire 5520 is a surprising piece of equipment. The quality and the robustness of the case are much better than what anyone would come to expect that comes out of Acer. The design is good too, matte black, curved angles and couple of sharp lines, all this breathes some elegance into this laptop. The case dimensions are 426x366x274 mm, and weight is 2.75kg.

The 5520 is equipped with a dual core AMD Athlon 64 X2 mobile TK-53 processor running at 1.7 GHz with 2x256 kb of cache. Integrated Nvidia GeForce 7000M card is a part of the relatively new nForce 610M chipset, released in May this year. Compared to its stronger brother 7150M graphics, this solution doesn’t offer hardware decoding of MPEG2 1080i / H.264 720p video, and the core speed is 350MHz compared to 425MHz on the 7150M. In 3DMark05 benchmark, the computer scored 612 marks, whereas PCMark5 scored 900 in graphics.

This Acer notebook features 1GB of RAM, or to be more precise 2x512MB of DDR2 running at 533MHz. Out of the box, the graphics are set to use 256MB, so the system is left with about 750MB, and that, is not quite the best solution for Vista.