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Acer Aspire 5530G

Notebook Specifications

Acer Aspire 5530GNotebook: Acer Aspire 5530G
Processor: AMD Turion X2 RM-70
Graphics Adapter: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470
Display: 15.4 inch, 16:10, 1280x800 pixels
Weight: 2.8kg
Price: 700 euro
Links: Acer homepage
 Acer notebook section

 
Average Score: 63.8% - average
Average of 5 scores (from 6 reviews)price: 71%, performance: 40%, features: 67%, display: 56%
mobility: 38%, workmanship: 81%, ergonomy: 51%, emissions: 80%

Reviews for the Acer Aspire 5530G

Acer Aspire 5530G
Source: Inside HW English
With nice balance between price, possibilities, accessories and quality build Acer Aspire 5530G is solid purchase. When problem with disabling of integrated graphics card is corrected this notebook will become even better purchase option.
Preis gut, Verarbeitung gut
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 10/17/2008
Rating: price: 80% workmanship: 80%

80% The Acer Aspire 5530G Reviewed (AMD Puma)
Source: Hardware Zone English
Unfortunately, the performance for the Acer Aspire 5530G isn't quite as good as we would have liked it despite the presence of AMD's new Puma platform. It's probably one of our main grouse that AMD has yet to catch up with Intel since the good ol' days where they stood toe to toe with its competitor. Intel's dominance in the mobile market can be attributed to their marketing success with the Centrino branding though the solid performance of their platform does play a part. AMD has always played it closer to the lower end of the budget spectrum, offering decent performance at a competitive price, and this is continued in the Acer Aspire 5530G. Acer is moreover quite well known for its competitively priced offerings and this Puma based Acer Aspire 5530G is no different.
4 von 5, Leistung schlecht, Preis gut
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 10/06/2008
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 80% performance: 40%

Foreign Reviews

62% Ein Puma ohne Krallen
Source: Chip.de - 12/08 German
online available, Medium, Date: 12/01/2008
Rating: Total score: 62% price: 70% performance: 48% features: 90% display: 81% mobility: 41% ergonomy: 67%

71% Artenvielfalt - leistungsstarke Allrounder im Mittelformat
Source: PC Magazin - 11/2008 German
, Short, Date: 10/16/2008
Rating: Total score: 71% price: 90% performance: 67% features: 77% mobility: 65% workmanship: 73%

36% Acer Aspire 5530G-703G32Bi
Source: PC Welt German
online available, Short, Date: 10/14/2008
Rating: Total score: 36% price: 25% performance: 16% features: 49% mobility: 14% ergonomy: 36%

70% Acer Aspire 5530G-703G32Mi
Source: Notebookjournal German
online available, Long, Date: 08/18/2008
Rating: Total score: 70% price: 80% performance: 30% features: 50% display: 30% mobility: 30% workmanship: 90% ergonomy: 50% emissions: 80%

Comment

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470: Faster clocked HD 3450 and successor of the HD 2400 XT but with DirectX 10.1 and due to the new 55nm process, higher clockspeeds. Avivo HD video functions allow the decoding of HD videos.

Lower end of Graphics Cards for users who want to play games. New games should run on these cards, but only with decreased details and mediocre resolution.


>> Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.

AMD Turion X2: The Turion X2 (without 64) is based on the Turion X2 Ultra, but has only 1024 MB L2 Cache and is therefore slower (performance compareable to the old Turion 64 X2). Because of new parts from the K10 architecture, the CPU should be more energy efficient.

RM-70:
>> 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.

Acer reviews

63.8%: Such a bad rating is rare. There exist hardly any notebooks, which are rated worse.

>> Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.


 

Author: Stefan Hinum, 2008-09- 6 (Update: 2008-10-28)