Best Laptop Deal

One of the best producers of notebooks in the world is Acer, and today we’ll discuss more about this company and about one of its models of laptops. Acer is a multinational company which has the headquarters in Taipei,  Taiwan and has many other locations all over the world. It was founded in 1976 by Stan Shih and since then it continued to grow and to develop and today it is the second largest producer of personal computers in the world, behind HP. It offers many types of electronic products such as: computers, notebooks, computer accessories, monitors, storage devices and also software products.

Acer offers a lot of cool models of notebooks, and they are divided into three big families: the Aspire laptops, the TravelMate and the Extensa. Each of these families has many models, each one with its different characteristics and prices. So now let’s take a random model offered by Acer and discuss all about it. We’ll choose the Acer Aspire AS 5517 – 1643 laptop. It has a simple but elegant design meaning that it can be used both by a young student but also by a more serious business man. It has a 15.6 inch widescreen display which is good for watching movies or playing video games.

It has a price of 450 dollars so it is among the cheaper and more affordable models of notebooks. Of course it doesn’t come with very advanced features and technologies like the models that cost 1.000 dollars or more, but the technical details it has are just good for most of the computer activities (writing documents, browsing the internet, listening to music, watching videos etc.). The computer experts that tested this model rated it with 60 out of 100 points, and the home users rated it with 79 out of 100, so this means that it is a good laptop, and even though it is not among the bests, it is a simple and affordable laptop.

So now let’s take a look at the complete technical details for this model:

- Brand – Acer

- Audio Output Type – Sound card

- Battery Run Time – (Up To) 2.5 hours

- Technology – Lithium ion

- Cache Memory – Installed Size – 512KB

- Dimensions & Weight – Depth 9.7 in, Height – 1.6 in, Width – 14.6 in, Weight – 6 lbs

- Display (Projector) – Color Support – 24 bit (16.7 million colors)

- Diagonal Size – 15.6 in

- Max Resolution – 1366 x 768

- Technology – TFT active matrix

- Widescreen Display – Yes

- Compatibility – PC

- Country Kits – United States

- Manufacturer – Acer

- Model – 5517

- Packaged Quantity – 1

- Product Line – Acer Aspire

- Input Device Type – Keyboard / Touchpad

- Modem Type – None

- Networking – Data Link Protocol

- Ethernet / Fast Ethernet / IEEE 802.11 b / IEEE 802.11 g

- Type – Network adapter

- Wireless LAN Supported – Yes

- Wireless Protocol – 802.11 b / g

- Notebook Camera – Camera Type – Integrated

- Optical Storage – Read Speed – 24 x (CD) / 8 x (DVD)

- Rewrite Speed – 24 x (CD) / 6 x (DVD-RW) / 8 x (DVD + RW) / 5 x (DVD -RAM)

- Type – DVD – Write Speed – 24 x (CD) / 8 x (DVD)

- OS Provided – Type – Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium

- Processor – Clock Speed – 1.6GHz

- Manufacturer – AMD

- Processor Number – TF -20

- Type – Athlon 64

- RAM – Installed Size – 3 GB

- Max Supported Size -4 GB

- Technology – DDR 2 SDRAM

- Service & Support – Type – 1 year warranty

- Storage Floppy Drive – Type – None

- Storage Hard Drive – Type – Portable

- Storage Removable – Type – None

- System Hard Drive(-s) Total Capacity – 250 GB

- Notebook Type – Notebook

- Video Output – Graphics Processor /

- Vendor – ATI Radeon X 1200