Acer Aspire 5101AWLMi Vista

Notebook specifications

Notebook: Acer Aspire 5101AWLMi Vista
Processor: AMD Turion 64 MK-36 (2000 MHz)
Graphics adapter: ATI Radeon Xpress 1100 (128 MB)
Display: 15.4 inch 16:10 (1280x800 pixels)
Weight: 2.8 kg
Average score: 83% - good
Average of 1 scores (from 2 reviews)

Reviews in English

ACER Aspire 5101 Review
Source: OurNotebookReviews
I am new to laptops and this is my first purchase. I am about to move out of a nice spacious house probably into single room accomdation. Bearing this in mind lugging my desktop computer and CRT monitor around everywhere was going to be a pain. I had initially set my desktop up to be a good gaming machine but soon realised I wasn’t using it much for that. So the laptop I was after only had to be good for basic functions, DVD, and probably TV. I wanted as good as spec as I could get (naturally), and a must was a dual layer DVD writer.
Date: 03/13/2007
Rating: performance: 80% display: 90% workmanship: 70%

Reviews in German

83%Acer Aspire 5101AWLMi Vista
Source: Computerbild 6/07
Date: 02/20/2007
Rating: Total score: 83% price: 90% performance: 80% features: 82% ergonomy: 82% emissions: 87%

Comment

ATI Radeon Xpress 1100: ATI Radeon Xpress 1100 is the successor of the Xpress M200 chipset, offers integrated X300 graphics with shared memory and supports DDR2 and DirectX9. It is part of the weakest third of mobile video cards and can only be used for older games. It is sufficient without problems for office applications and for surfing.
>> Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.

AMD Turion 64: AMD Turion 64 is a derivate of the Athlon 64, contains an integrated memory controller for PC3200 memory and a mode for low current consumption. The ML variants need 35 Watts and the MT variants 25 Watts energy. The Turion 64 is comparable with Pentium M regarding the speed.

MK-36:
>> Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.

15.4": 15 inch display-variants are the standard and are used for more than the half of all notebooks.  15.4 inch display with 16:10 are the standard for notebook displays.
The reason why so many people like displays with medium size is, that this size is not exhausting for the eyes, does not need too much current and the laptops can be kept quite compact.
>> To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.

2.8 kg: This weight is average for notebooks. Therefore the numerous mass of laptops with 15 inch display fits in this class of weight.

Acer: Acer is one of the international manufacturers with the most market shares worldwide and the most reviewed notebook models in the German and English speaking countries. Nevertheless only few of the models achieved top rankings according total ranking and price/value evaluation.
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>> Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.