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Acer Aspire 5552-N834G50Mnkk
by nicholaix
Acer 5552
This Acer is definitely a fantastic run for your money. For the specifications, It is amazing value.
This laptop is perfect for office applications eg.Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel. So perfect for students who need to do college work. But due to quite a low processor speed, and integrated graphics card, it is ... not very good for playing games later than 2005/6.
Features-
Webcam-
The webcam is an integrated 3.2 Mega pixel camera. Average quality for photographs, but a lot of motion blur when recording videos. The software that comes with this webcam is "Acer Crystal Eye" Which has no built in effects but you can change certain aspects, like gamma, contrast and brightness.
Built in WiFi-
Comes with built in WiFi, Which has run perfectly and has never given me any problems, and i get my recommended internet speed for my internet provider.
Speakers-
Speakers are nothing special, But are surprisingly loud for the size of this notebook, and I have had no problems with them.
Keyboard and touch pad.
I find the keyboard is a suitable keyboard, But the keys definitely have a cheap feel, and after a while may lead to problems. The touch pad is very good, The buttons don't get stuck, and the pad operates very well.
Disk Drive-
This notepad comes with a Disk drive, which is great for watching movies and playing music CD's. You get software that comes with Windows 7 which will play these- Windows Media Centre.
Screen- The screen is just an average screen, it is not HD, and is fine in a daytime and night time setting, but i find if sunlight shines directly on it, you can't see the picture very well.
Slots- This comes with a few slots, 3 USB Slots, 1 HDMI, 1 Ethernet cable slot, and also a VGA slot. Which all work fine.
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Acer Aspire 5552-N933G64Mnkk
by RCLEARY57
I apologise in advance as I am not very technological so please don't expect a review full of specifications and what-not because I just haven't a clue!!! I am hoping that people will appreciate this review as being simple and to the point rather than being blinded by numbers and abbreviations. :) This is just basically my take on the ... laptop, the good and bad points rather than a blow by blow account of what it has, something which anyone can get online when they look for the Acer Aspire 5552.
My Acer Aspire is only around a year old and to be honest it is ready to be scrapped. Not good for me as I have to get a new laptop but good that I can give a review on it and point out all the things that may go wrong with it (Through no fault of the laptops, mainly mine)
The look of the laptop itself in my opinion is rather formal and business like plain black, large and rectangular. Closed, the lid of the laptop has the word 'acer' in reflective silver and the rest of the lid is raised about 2mm higher than this. The lid has a pattern on it which reminds me of the metal that fire escape stairs are made of with the grain of rice criss-cross pattern on it.
Opening it up, the laptop has a flat keyboard with chiclet keys which basically means that each key on the keyboard is set individually and is floating so there is a gap around them and below them where dust and dirt can get in and hide. (Note to self....and others....do not think that it is a good idea to try and prise the keys off to clean under them as you will come across one...or 3 in my case that don't want to move and you end up snapping them off their springs).
The mouse touchpad is about 7cm wide and 4cm high with an extra 1cm below where the mouse buttons are. At the side of the touchpad there is an arrow spanning the height which shows you that you can scroll up and down the webpage that you are on by sliding your finger up and down it. The buttons are actually one long button which you can use like a normal mouse by clicking on the respecive side. I think that it would have been better if it had been split into two as I have noticed, because the middle is static, when you press the side that you need, usually the left for me, it tends to stick down and you have to press really hard a good few times for it to unstick itself.
The screen is a 15.6'' HD LCD screen and has a built in webcam, I am not sure what megapixel the webcam is but I have searched online and am led to believe that it is 1.3mp. To put it bluntly, it is not really much use as the brightness through the webcam is reduced substantially no matter where or of what you are trying to take a picture or video. The image that you see is rather blurred and 'toned down' of colour. The screen itself is nice and large and allows you to see your pages clear and with ease. The only problem that I had with the screen (entirely my fault) was that I picked it up **shock horror** with my thumb and forefinger underneath the webcam a few times and caused the screen to crack rather badly. (I told my partner that our 2 year old had done it because she is his princess and he wouldnt shout at her, and wouldn't buy me a new one. But in all fairness she did stand on it when it was closed 3 days later so really I was just anticipating it)
As I have not had the screen repaired yet the 'crack' is now around 10cm wide on the right and splits off into 4 more cracks :( Also the inside by the charger is crackling, not to sure what that is though !!
On the left side of the laptop there is a series of open slits which I assume is a fan ut even from new I have only known it to blow out hot air, I have also burned my arm on it once or twice, and on the block in the middle of the charger while I am on the subject of burning!!
There is also USB ports, a Wired Network Port, a headphone socket, a charger socket and another round socket with a bluetooth symbol next to it.
On the right side there is two USB ports and a 'DVD-Super Multi DL Drive', I just use that to play CD's!!!!
The The Battery Life on the Acer Aspire 5552 is not very long to be truthful, in my opinion anyway. I only seem to get at the most an hour out of it when it has been fully charged. I only use it to search the internet and play games on Facebook etc. I dont know if this is the reason why but it has been like this from new so I know that it is not something that I have done to it.
On the subject of internet browsing I find that it is rather fast and without complications, it is easy to switch from one page from another and to have multiple tabs open at the same time without compromising the speed or effectiveness of the other pages.
I have searched online to try and get some of the Specifications that I have already said I am unsure of just to try and give a better all round review.
I have used www.acerdirect.co.uk
PPROCESSOR
Processor family AMD Athlon II
L2 Cache 1 MB
Processor front side bus 3200 MHz
Motherboard chipset -
Processor Model P320
Processor Clock Speed 2100 MHz
DISK DRIVE
Number of hard drives installed 1
Total Storage Capacity 320 GB
Hard disk interface Serial ATA
Hard disk rotational speed 5400 rpm
DISPLAY
LED backlight Y
Display Resolution 1366 x 768 pixels
Display diagonal 15.6 "
Display number of colours 16.7 M
Display LCD
Aspect Ratio 16:9
MEMORY
Memory Clock Speed 1066 MHz
Memory layout 1024+2048 MB
Maximum internal memory 8 GB
Memory slots 2x SO-DIMM
Internal memory type DDR3-SDRAM
Internal memory 3072 MB
STORAGE MEDIA
Card reader integrated Y
Compatible memory cards MMC,SD
VIDEO
Discrete graphics adapter model UMA
On-board graphics adapter model Y
Graphics adapter family -
OPTICAL DRIVE
Optical drive type DVD Super Multi DL
KEYBOARD
full-size keyboard Y
CAMERA
Built-in camera Y
Megapixel 1.3 MP
NETWORKING
3G network access module N
Wireless LAN (WLAN) connection Y
Bluetooth Y
Ethernet LAN connection Y
Cabling technology 10/100/1000Base-T(X)
Wireless LAN type 802.11b/g/n
OPERATING SYSTEM/SOFTWARE
Operating system architecture 64-bit
Operating system provided Windows 7 Home Premium
CONNECTIVITY
eSATA/USB 3.0 ports quantity 0
eSATA/USB 2.0 ports quantity 0
USB 3.0 ports quantity 0
DisplayPorts quantity 0
HDMI ports quantity 0
ExpressCard slot N
eSATA ports quantity 0
Port replicator N
VGA (D-Sub) ports quantity 1
SmartCard slot N
CardBus PCMCIA slot type N
CardBus PCMCIA slots quantity 0
DVI port N
TV out port N
DC-in jack Y
S/PDIF out port N
Microphone, line-in jack Y
Speaker/ headphone/ line-out jack 1
Ethernet LAN (RJ-45) ports quantity 1
Modem (RJ-11) ports 0
IEEE 1394/Firewire ports quantity 0
USB 2.0 ports quantity 3
Infrared data port N
SECURITY
Password protection HDD,User,Supervisor,BIOS
Cable lock slot Kensington
WEIGHT & DIMENSIONS
Depth 253 mm
Width 381 mm
Height 24 mm
Weight 2600 g
ENERGY MANAGEMENT
Power supply 90 W
Number of battery cells 6 pcs
CERTIFICATES
Energy Star certified Y
Compliance industry standards IEEE 802.3, IEEE 802.3u, IEEE 802.3ab
OTHER FEATURES
Hard disk drive, user password Y
COLOUR
Colour of product Black
TECHNICAL DETAILS
Pointing device Touchpad
RRP 399.97 inc VAT
Overall, I think that I would recommend this laptop as most of the problems that I have outlined in this review have been down to myself and the fact that I haven't 100% taken care of it :( . I would give it 4/5 *****.
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