Acer Aspire 8930G
Notebook Specifications
Notebook: Acer Aspire 8930GProcessor: Intel Core 2 Duo P8400
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT
Display: 18.4 inch, 16:10, 1920x1080 pixels
Weight: 4.1kg
Price: 1500 euro
Links: Acer homepage Acer notebook section Aspire 8930G (Model)
Average Score: 83.6% - good
Average of 5 scores (from 8 reviews)
mobility: 60%, workmanship: 83%, ergonomy: 70%, emissions: - %
Reviews for the Acer Aspire 8930G
Attack of the Mammoths: 18.4-inch DTR Shootout!
Source: Hardware Zone 
Having had our fun with all four units, we're hard pressed to actually come up with a clear winner. It's obvious that all four units have a different take on what an 18.4-inch desktop replacement should be and have their own strengths, but it's also obvious they all agree that size is key here. The Acer Aspire Gemstone Blue 8930G here comes out tops in our books for its value and performance, but we didn't quite like its fingerprint magnet surface and glossy screen.
von 5: Leistung 5, Ausstattung 4, Preis 4.5
Comparison, online available, Very Long, Date: 12/09/2008
Rating: price: 90% performance: 100% features: 80%
80% Acer Aspire 8930G-6448
Source: Laptop Mag
Naysayers will argue that the $1,699 Acer Aspire 8930G is an incremental upgrade over the 8920G, but when a formula works very well, there isn’t much need for a full-scale change. The system’s powerful processor, improved graphics muscle, and striking design makes it one of the best desktop replacements around.
4 von 5, Leistung gut, Preis mangelhaft
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 11/12/2008
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 50% performance: 80%
Foreign Reviews
76% PC raus, Notebook rein
Source: PC Go - 12/08 
, Length Unknown, Date: 12/01/2008
Rating: Total score: 76% price: 80% mobility: 50%
86% Zehn Spiele-Notebooks bis 1.500 Euro
Source: Gamestar
, Length Unknown, Date: 12/01/2008
Rating: Total score: 86% price: 60% performance: 80% features: 80%
86% Acer Aspire 8930G
Source: Gamestar
online available, Very Short, Date: 11/20/2008
Rating: Total score: 86% price: 60% performance: 85% features: 80% display: 90%
Media Center Notebooks von Acer und Toshiba
Source: Tom's Hardware
online available, Long, Date: 10/17/2008
Rating: features: 70%
90% Acer Aspire 8930G-944G64BN
Source: Notebookjournal
online available, Long, Date: 09/17/2008
Rating: Total score: 90% price: 70% performance: 80% features: 70% display: 50% mobility: 70% workmanship: 70% ergonomy: 70%
Acer Aspire 8930G
Source: MuyComputer 
online available, Medium, Date: 12/02/2008
Rating: workmanship: 95%
Comment
NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT: Successor of the 8700M GT and technically a higher clocked 9600M GT. Improved video engine for decoding HD videos (PureVideo HD - VP2), HybridPower, CUDA, and PhysX support.
These cards should be able to display all current games with fluent framerates but not all with high detail settings. Especially demanding games like Crysis, Age of Conan, or Mass Effect are only playable with lower settings. Less demanding (and older) games, like Fifa 08, Command & Conquer 3, or Battlefield 2142 can be played with higher detail levels.
>> Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
Intel Core 2 Duo: This is the Core Duo and Core Solo successor with a longer pipeline and 5-20% more speed without more power consumption. As an addition to the Core Duo design there exists a fourth decoder, an amplified SSE-unit and an additional arithmetical logical unit (ALU).
The Core 2 Duo for laptops is identical to the desktop Core 2 Duo processors but the notebook-processors work with lower voltages (0.95 to 1188 Volt) and a lower Frontside bus clock (1066 vs 667 MHz). The performance of equally clocked notebooks is 20-25% lower than Desktop PCs because of the lower Frontside bus clock and the slower hard disks.
P8400:
>> Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
18.4":
>> To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.
4.1 kg: This laptop is heavy below average, compared with the average of notebooks. Therefore especially desktop replacements fit 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.
83.6%: This rating is to be considered as average, because the amount of notebooks with better ratings is about equal like the amount with worse ratings.
>> Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.
