Acer - AS5633 review

April 30, 2008

Acer - AS5633 reviewThe Acer AS5633 provides a simple vision in the current world of Acer notebooks. Discounting the fact that arrives in a traditional style, rather than the new chassis of the gemstone, this is a mass-market portable, powered by an Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T5500 processor (running at 1.66GHz).

It comes loaded with a profit of 2 GB of RAM, 120GB of hard disk space, a 15.4-inch screen and a solution shared graphics. There is a DVD burner in there too, as is almost de facto in the budget modern laptop.

As with most laptops, Acer, which also comes loaded with a selection of software that we spent the first hour trying to uninstall. A trial version of Norton, for example, quickly get rid of, along with 60 day trial version of Microsoft Office 2007.

Some of the software is useful, as burning tools disk, but we have preferred something other than Acer’s own player software media. That said, anyone looking for a load off the-shelf solution, then some of these tools will be of real use. We have elected at least one alternative anti-virus solution, however.

The machine comes with Windows Vista Home Premium Edition, and for the sake of experimentation went around High Street stores in search of a portable machine that does not have any version of Vista on it. Our search proved fruitless, and given the lack of choice towards consumers expect Vista migration accelerated. The inclusion of Vista is what makes the 2 GB of RAM in the Acer AS5633 as important, and this means that the performance of work is really very Nippy. We want to be cautious about a portable solution with less than that.

We are very impressed with the performance of the laptop to ask the price. Obviously, given their shared integrated graphics solution, all kinds of modern games is out of the question, but that apart, for good quality machine every day there is a real case for the AS5633.

Battery life ran nearly two and a half hours medium use, and this is a quick charger. In addition we have a preference for Acer’s more comfortable, more practical, old-style chassis that retains AS5633. A keyboard that did not have a row of keys on the right button to enter would be a bonus, but otherwise is a comfortable machine to work.

There are features that have higher end laptops that you will not find here. There is no support Bluetooth, Firewire and no no webcam. You’ll find a selection of USB 2.0 ports, but beyond what is absolutely no need to shout too.

However, this is not the point. The idea with the Acer AS5633 is to provide a good quality, viable machine at a good price, and that’s what Acer has done. The performance is good, and while there is nothing exciting about the machine, it is necessary to tick boxes for a routine laptop.

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