Although the Acer Ferrari is a series of its own, you can partly recognize forms which are already known from other Acer series. E.g., the Acer Ferrari 5005's keyboard reminds you on the Travelmates'.

The design is affected by lavish coatings with red accents, black high gloss surfaces to a velvety matt hand ball support. Furthermore, the display cover attracts by carbon-look, and a Ferrari logo placed in its center. In total the design of this notebook looks alright. The input of Italian designers was obviously worth it.

The flexural rigidity of the case is alright, the case is clearly stabler than those of most notebooks of the Aspire series. The Ferrari optically also has the  often criticized weakness, a cut across the case above the keyboard, however, it is much better regarding flexural rigidity of this region.

However, we observed deflections at the backside of the notebook, when moving it. E.g., the plastic cover of the hinges deflects clearly to the back when changing the  position of the display. Furthermore, we could also detect deflections at the case itself. So, there is yet a long way to reach the stability of a Ferrari Monocoque.

The interfaces of the Ferrari 5005 are distributed around the whole notebook. E.g., the audio ports are unreasonably placed at the front side and 2 USB ports are near the front on the right side of the case.

We do not really feel that the advertising slogan fits well to this notebook: "Power to take the Lead". E.g., the hardware equipment of the Ferrari 5005, an AMD Turion 64 X2 CPU with 2.0 GHz and a ATI X1600 video card with 256MB VRAM, did not really delight us. 

Regarding processors a 2.33 GHz T7600 High End CPU by Intel, as well as regarding video cards for 15'' notebooks, e.g., a Geforce 7700 or an ATI X1700 video card would be much more powerful components. On the whole the Ferrari is therefore only average regarding performance.

Still, the provided performance should be sufficient for all current office applications, and even current games should be playable, if you reduce the resolution and the number of details.

Further information about the video card can be found here or in our comparison of mobile video cards. Detailed information about the Turion 64 X2 CPU can be found here.

Please also look at our benchmark list of mobile processors or at our benchmark list of mobile video cards, in order to compare this notebook to other configurations.

While the notebook ran idle, we could observe that the temperature moderately increased at the top and and at the bottom side. Remarkably, it increased slightly more at the right side than at the left side.

The notebook is equipped with a 7800 mAh 9-cell battery, which should be able to provide a runtime of above 3 hours, depending on the energy settings. Therefore, the Ferrari is well-equipped for mobile use.