Acer Extensa 5230E-581G16Mn
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Reviews for the Acer Extensa 5230E-581G16Mn
Source: Techradar
How does Acer's business-aimed laptop shape up? Acer's laptop range covers all sectors of the market, with its Extensa brand comprising its entry-level business systems. The Acer Extensa 5230E-581G16Mn (£392 inc. VAT) is a 15.4-inch machine, which manages to combine effective performance with strong mobility. With its impressive build quality, usability and connectivity, the Extensa 5230E is a great entry-level business machine. Its lack of features limits its appeal somewhat, but it's still a very well-made and reliable laptop.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 08/23/2009
Rating: Total score: 70%
Foreign Reviews
Source: Cyberbloc
DE→ENSingle Review, online available, Medium, Date: 08/21/2009
Rating: price: 80%
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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500M: The graphics core of the Intel GL40 and GS40 chipset features a slower clocked GMA 4500MHD (400 versus 533 MHz). Because of the slower core speed, full Blu-Ray Logo support is not given and the gaming performance is a bit worse. Only some 3D games with very low demands are playable with these cards. » Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.Intel Celeron M: It is a Pentium M with halved level 2 Cache and limited on FSB 400. The characteristic of this processor is the speed, which is hardly slower than an equivalent Pentium M. However it can change the speed not dynamically like the Pentium M and therefore needs without load more current.
It is also available as Low Voltage Version with very small current consumption.
585: Single core processor based on the Merom core but with reduced features (like the missing Speedstep).» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
15.4":
15-16 inch is a standard display size for laptops and offers the biggest variety of products.
» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.2.9 kg:
This weight is representative for typical laptops with a 14-16 inch display-diagonal.
Acer: The company was founded under the name of Multitech in Taiwan in 1976 and renamed to Acer or Acer Group in 1987. The product range includes, for example, laptops, tablets, smartphones, desktops, monitors and televisions. Gateway Inc. and Packard Bell also belong to the Group and sell their own laptops.
While Acer still had the third largest global market share in the notebook segment in 2008, it ranked 6th in 2016 with a market share of 6% after they had continuously lost market shares.
There are dozens of Acer laptop reviews per month, the ratings are average (as of 2016). Gateway, which has an own laptop line-up, has also belonged to the Acer Group since 2007.
70%: This rating is bad. Most notebooks are better rated. This is not a recommendation for purchase.
» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.
