Review:- ACER EXTENSA 5220

ACER EXTENSA 5220 – OLD BOY IN NEW ATTIRE:

Each year as back to school season approach the computer market teases consumers into their stores with loss leader laptops. Generally they sell out pretty fast. It possibly isn't the characteristic PC users that purchase them, but rather tweezers that are looking for a decent kit to research with.


Design:

While I had the Extensa 5220 open, I noticed that the CPU is in fact secreted। The 5220's Socket P will recognize any one of a large number of CPUs (Merom and Penryn based). Unlike some current budget laptops based on Intel's Santa Rosa platform, the 5220 only has single miniPCI slot.

Performance:

Opening with the CPU; the Celeron M 550 is run on Intel's Merom construction (standard-voltage, 65 nm)। Merom is the previous generation of Intel's Core micro architecture. It chains: MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, Intel 64 (Intel's x86-64 implementation), XD bit (an NX bit execution). With 2 GHz clock speed and 1024 KB of level 2 cache presentation it is in sequence with the Pentium M 760 CPU of former times apart from the Celeron has the added advantage of SSE3, SSSE3 and Intel 64. Not too scruffy. The Extensa 5220 is not departing to win any velocity contests. It does however run the Operating System and office functions just fine. Here are the results of some frequent benchmarks that should exemplify the relative presentation. Keep in mind that these benchmarks are multi-threaded and actually errand dual core (or greater) CPUs.

Wireless recital is marvelous. The 5520 can see loads of networks and holds the signal, but this is true of almost every laptop these days. Battery sprint life is low. At just about 2 hours one wonders where all the juice is departing, this is after all a single core CPU with improved speed step.

Conclusion

With a poor battery life and immense weight, at ordinary business value PC price of $600 I would advise the majority people to steer clear of the Acer Extensa 5220। But with a price of $399 (less with coupons) it is unbreakable not to understand the value on offer here. This is a rock-hard workhorse laptop. It is built on a well-support podium that is well-matched with lots of operating systems. It has the ports a business user requires and technologies like DASP to keep data safe.

Pros:

It handles Vista well-enough
Linux and other OS work really well with the stock hardware
Good value for money after the discounts

Cons:

Outdated configuration

Value For Money

Our Ratings