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Acer Aspire 5633WLMi |
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02.06.08 (32 review reads) |
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Advantages: looks
Disadvantages: battery
When I first came across this laptop I noticed how sleek it really looks, and the picture of it on ciao really doesn't do it any justice.
When companies make laptops with only one colour of plastic it somehow really annoys me, however acer have designed this to be black and silver, this just makes the laptop look so much better and so much more modern that those one tone old laptops.
The top part of the laptop around the screen is black and the bottom is silver, but with a black keyboard which makes it look great.
The shape is actually really thin, especially since a lot of acers older aspires and travel mates have been a little on then chunky side, ok then, a lot on the chunky size!
However when you pick this up you can really feel how thin it is, however this doesn't mean its flimsy, and its actually really good build quality.
Its weight is 2.8 kg, which isn't heavy but to say its quite a small laptop, this shows you how well built it is, and acer have put a lot of effort into it durability.
When I first got to use one of these, I noticed how quickly it started up, this is probably due to its great 2 gb of built in ram. This can even be upgraded to a massive 4 gb if needed.
This laptop also has a Intel Core 2 Duo T5500 which makes the laptop run really fast.
During start up of the laptop, there was quite a bit of fan noise whilst turning on, however you would expect that on a laptop. However whilst on the laptop and when windows is fully loaded, the fan noise cant be heard at all. Even when I loaded a game onto the laptop to test its capability coping with high ram pressure, there was still no fan noise.
This laptop features a 160 gb built in hard drive. This is quite a lot and although a lot of people wont ever use this much space its always good to know you have a lot of space spare to save what ever you need.
This laptop has a lot of great features, like its 6 in 1 built in card reader and its built in webcam at the top of the screen. This camera was actually a quite good one, its only 1.3 mega pixel, however when I used it, I found out it is actually pretty good, however my plug in one I own at home is a lot better quality than this, and it only cost me £20.
A good thing about this one though, that a lot of other laptop webcams don't have, is that this has 225 degree rotation, which means you don't have to move the laptop to the right angle to be in the picture, which is always frustrating.
On the box this says it runs for 2 hours, however when I used it, I somehow never managed to even get 1 and a half hours out of it. Now this might just be a fault in my battery pack, or it could be because I used the screen on full brightness level, and they have measures it for low brightness, however it is supposed to last 2 hours.
Altogether then, this is a pretty good laptop. It does look really good, and is really fast, so it would be an amazing gift for someone if you are quite rich.
Summary: the acer aspire, 5633
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