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Acer Extensa 5630 Series

Acer Extensa 5630ZProcessor: Intel Core 2 Duo T5800, Intel Pentium Dual Core T3200
Graphics Adapter: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650, Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD
Display: 15.40 inch
Weight: 2.9kg
Price: 500, 600 euro
Average Score: 77.67% - good
Average of 3 scores (from 4 reviews)
price: 85%, performance: 78%, features: 66%, display: 67%, mobility: 41%, workmanship: 70%, ergonomy: 73%, emissions: 94%

 

Acer Extensa 5630G

Specifications

Acer Extensa 5630GNotebook: Acer Extensa 5630G
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T5800
Graphics Adapter: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650
Display: 15.40 inch, 16:10, 1280 x 800 pixels
Weight: 2.9kg
Price: 600 euro
Links: Acer homepage
 Acer notebook section
 Extensa 5630 (Series)

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Average Score: 84% - good

Average of 1 scores (from 2 reviews)

 

Reviews

Acer Extensa 5630G
Source: Inside HW English Archive.org version
One of most interesting notebooks at the moment for majority of potential notebook buyers is Acer Extensa 5630G. In this price range it is very hard to find similar notebook that is well balanced with characteristics that can satisfy widest consumer types. Extensa is, by Acer classification, business model, but if you take a closer look at specification you will see that it is much more and that it can satisfy easily even users that are searching for universal multimedia notebook solution. If you need notebook for general use, Acer Extensa 5630G is our recommendation. Missing Bluetooth module can be a problem but with price tag around 550€ we believe that you will turn a blind eye to this, actually, easy soluble problem.
Preis 80
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 02/04/2009
Rating: price: 80%

Foreign Reviews

84% Vergleichstest
Source: Computerbild - 6/09 German
Comparison, , Long, Date: 05/01/2009
Rating: Total score: 84% price: 80% performance: 82% features: 83% display: 92% ergonomy: 83% emissions: 94%

 

Acer Extensa 5630Z

Specifications

Acer Extensa 5630ZNotebook: Acer Extensa 5630Z
Processor: Intel Pentium Dual Core T3200
Graphics Adapter: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD
Display: 15.40 inch, 16:10, 1280 x 800 pixels
Weight: 2.9kg
Price: 500 euro
Links: Acer homepage
 Acer notebook section
 Extensa 5630 (Series)

Pricecompare

Average Score: 74.5% - average

Average of 2 scores (from 2 reviews)

 

Foreign Reviews

69% Gute Notebooks bis 500 Euro
Source: c't - 8/09 German
Comparison, , Long, Date: 07/01/2009
Rating: Total score: 69% price: 90% performance: 93% features: 75% display: 80% mobility: 31% ergonomy: 67%
80% Acer Extensa 5630Z-342G16
Source: Notebookjournal German DE→EN Archive.org version
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 03/28/2009
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 90% performance: 60% features: 40% display: 30% mobility: 50% workmanship: 70% ergonomy: 70%

 

Comment

Acer: In 1976, the company was founded in Taiwan under the name Multitech and was renamed Acer or Acer Group in 1987. The product range includes, for example, laptops, tablets, smartphones, desktops, monitors, TVs and computer peripherals. Since 2007, the group has merged with Gateway Inc. and Packard Bell, which also market their own laptop product lines.

Acer computers are designed for a variety of purposes, including ultrabooks for mobile use, gaming laptops for gamers, affordable options for everyday tasks, and 2-in-1 convertible laptops for versatility. Acer's product portfolio also includes tablets that offer portable computing and multimedia capabilities.


Only some 3D games with very low demands are playable with these cards.

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650: The Hd 3650 is a middle class graphics card (in 2008) and compareable to an 8600M GT GPU from Nvidia. It is fabricated in 55nm process and due to Avivo video engine the graphic card can support the processor with several video operations (HD video too).

Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD: Onboard (shared Memory) GPU built in the GM45, GE45 and GS45 chipset (Montevina). Because of two more shaders and a higher core clock, much faster than the old GMA X3100. Still not advisable for gamers (DirectX 10 games not playable or only with very low settings). The integrated video processor is able to help decode HD videos (AVC/VC-2/MPEG2) , e.g., for a fluent Blu-Ray playback with slow CPUs.

» 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.

T5800: Entry level dual core processor based on the Merom core without Virtualization support and a low maximum temperature.

Intel Pentium Dual Core: The return of the name Pentium, though it is a Yonah core. In fact, it is a double Core processor with a very good relation of performance to current consumption.

T3200: Entry-level dual core processor with a slow performance due to the old Merom core and a small level 2 cache.

» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.


» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.


2.9 kg:

With this weight, a laptop is rather heavier than average. Devices in this range shine more with screen size and performance than with mobility.

2.9 kg:


77.67%: This rating is not earth-shattering. This rating must actually be seen as average, since there are about as many devices with worse ratings as better ones. A purchase recommendation can only be seen with a lot of goodwill, unless it is about websites that generally rate strictly.

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

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Acer Extensa 5630Z
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Stefan Hinum, 2009-04-11 (Update: 2012-05-26)