Acer Aspire 5542g
The Acer 5542G is the company’s advancement archetypal for it’s actual accustomed 5536/5536G series. The fresh archetypal comes with an bigger processor and a accomplished fresh Tigris platform. It was afterwards added than a week’s delay and buzz calls that I got authority of one Acer Aspire 5542G. From the moment I apprehend the blueprint sheet, I accept been actual captivated to get the apparatus in my hands. The specs boasts about a AMD Turion II 2.2 Ghz, 3GB DDR2 Memory, ATI 4570 Committed cartoon agenda with a 512MB DDR3 anamnesis and a absolutely acceptable 320GB Hard deejay drive for a amount tag of below than RS 34000, which is absolutely a appetizing deal.
In this abundant analysis we will see how these specs accommodated the absolute achievement needs.
Key features:
In this section, we will attending in detail at the key apparatus that makes up this laptop. I will additionally try to accommodate as abundant blueprint and capacity as accessible from the manufacturer’s source.
Processor:
Acer Aspire 5542G comes with the additional bearing AMD Turion Processor (AMD Turion II M500) clocked at 2.2Ghz which houses a 1MB L2 Cache. The Turion II M500 is bogus application the 45nm technology. It belongs to the Caspian bearing of processors and supports HyperTransport 3.0 and accouterments virtualization.
The Turion is AMDs acknowledgment to adaptable processors, which provides accomplished achievement while befitting the ability burning at the minimum. The Turion processors generates below calefaction compared to AMD’s desktop assignment horses that accept a bad acceptability in calefaction discharge department. The Turion II actuality the abutting adaptation of the appropriate aerialist Turion, it sets aerial expectations in agreement of aggressive with the Core 2 Duos in the market. We will see how it array in absolute achievement aback we criterion it bottomward the road.
Graphics Card: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570 512MB DDR3
One of the capital attractions of this laptop is the cartoon agent that lies below the hood. The Acer 5542G comes with a committed ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570 with 512 MB of DDR3 memory.
For those of you who are not bright about the aberration amid an dent and a committed cartoon solution, I’m abacus a few words. An Dent cartoon band-aid (eg: the Intel’s X4500) doesn’t arise with committed video memory; it eats up your arrangement anamnesis for cartoon processing and appropriately the slower aisle amid the arrangement anamnesis and the cartoon agent causes the added acceptable bottle-neck aback it comes to performance. Additionally the dent cartoon processor would be below able than a boilerplate committed one in raw processing power. On the added hand, a committed cartoon agenda will usually accept a aerial acceleration committed video anamnesis (eg: DDR3) which is accompanying to the cartoon processor. This removes the canteen close and gives the agenda above performance. The cartoon processor on a committed agenda would usually abutment high-end furnishings provided by the best contempo DirectX and OpenGL APIs which gives the accuracy and visual-candy in the best contempo games.
The HD 4570 is a faster clocked adaptation of the Mobility Radeon 4530/4330. It has a 64 Bit anamnesis bus and comes with a 512MB DDR3 VRAM. The 512MB should be able for best gaming and cartoon needs, unless you comedy in the craziest resolutions. (As apprehension resolution increases, the added anamnesis it needs). The DDR3 anamnesis will accommodated the needs for the fastest and huge aggregate arrangement processing that avant-garde amateur demand. However the 64 bit bus stands inferior to the 128 bit bus that best boilerplate cards offer.
The ATI Mobility Radeon 4570 is based on the RV710 dent and it provides 80 beck processors. The Mobility Radeon additionally provides the video technology alleged Avivo HD that provides an on lath 7.1 complete chip. The cartoon band-aid additionally appearance a 2nd bearing Unified Video Decoder that supports abounding bitstream adaptation of H.264/MPEG-4 AVC and VC-1 streams. The 4570 cartoon assemblage is able of administration all video tasks including HD video decoding.
Display:
The Acer 5542G comes with a 15.6″ Aerial Definition LED backlit TFT LCD affectation that provides 220-nit aerial accuracy and Acer’s Cinecrystal affectation technology. The authentic widescreen (16:9) affectation supports a best resolution of 1366X768 and provides a 60% blush gamut. It has a high-def acknowledgment time of 8ms.
Memory: There is annihilation abundant to avowal about a 3GB DDR2 800Mhz anamnesis that comes with the Acer Aspire 5542G aback compared to the accustomed band of laptops abounding of which sports a 4GB beneath the hood. The 3GB is acceptable for best of the accretion needs which can after be upgraded to 4GB. However the 3GB accord would arise reasonable aback we accumulate the amount tag of the Acer 5542G in mind.
Hard Deejay Drive: Again there’s annihilation jaw bottomward in this department. But I would say that the 320GB that comes with the Acer 5542G is acceptable for best of your accumulator needs.
Processor achievement and benchmark:
I was initially afraid to about-face from the Intel’s authentic crammer Core 2 Duo to the AMD’s Turion ancestors of processors. It is a broadly accustomed actuality that the Intel’s processor outperforms the AMD adverse part, provided that both runs on the aforementioned alarm speed; the capital culprit actuality the lower L2 accumulation in AMDs. But my abhorrence to move on to the AMD Turion II was swept abroad by the achievement benchmarks. The AMD Turion II M500 2.2 Ghz outperforms the Intel Core 2 Duo 6670 2.2 Ghz. Aback AMD Turion II M500 array a appropriate account of 1426, the Intel Core2 Duo 6670 managed to get alone 1379, admitting the allowance is not huge.
The Turion II M500 additionally denticulate college in the Windows 7 achievement appraisement with a account of 5.7 adjoin the account of 5.5 of the Intel’s Core 2 Duo 6600.
The Turion II after agnosticism has bigger it’s architectonics badly compared to the antecedent bearing Turion, which helps it to accomplish a college achievement benchmark, while aggressive bang with the Intel’s counterpart, alike admitting AMD Turion II M500 houses alone 1MB L2 accumulation compared to the 2MB offered by the Intel’s variants.
The AMD Turion II M500 is absolutely an accomplished aerialist and is admirable for actuality the aboriginal AMD processor archetypal overtaking the Intel Core 2 Duo forth the achievement lines, both of which are clocked at the aforementioned speed. Admitting the Turion II has alone 1MB L2 Accumulation it brings accomplished achievement and accretion ability on a budget. The Turion II M500 processor gives the Acer 5542G with abundant cardinal crunching efficiency, that was abundant apparent aback we ran tests involving compressing/extracting, Gaming and Video apprehension application 3D cartoon tools. The Acer 5542G showed active achievement during circadian computing, and the Windows admiration and multi-tasking were decidedly quick.
Graphics agenda performance:
The Acer 5542G with the ATI Mobility Radeon 4570 with 512MB Committed DDR3 VRAM is not an aberrant aerialist in agreement of the best contempo gaming standards. But actual few laptops comes with a aerial end cartoon agenda that meets the high-end gamer’s needs and those machines will bake a aperture in your wallet for sure. The HD 4570 in the Acer 5542G is a appropriate cartoon agenda to comedy a little earlier bold titles in abounding detail admitting aback it comes to the best contempo games, you ability accept to abuse the detail akin to a average to get reasonable anatomy rates.
The Acer 5542G is an accomplished best for gamer’s on a account as able-bodied as 3D Cartoon designers and Animators.
I begin the Acer 5542G carrying actual bland anatomy ante on Test Drive Unlimited alike at the accomplished settings, admitting a video analysis of the Dell Studio 15 apartment the aforementioned cartoon agenda showed decidedly lower anatomy ante in YouTube. May be the achievement addition is due to the DDR3 Video Anamnesis as able-bodied as the added acceptable number-crunching done by the AMD Turion II M500. The agenda fared absolutely able-bodied in earlier titles like Charge For Acceleration Best Wanted, Charge For Acceleration UnderCover, Unreal Tournament 2003, and Crysis Warhead alike at the accomplished detail settings with 1024X768 resolution and FSAA angry on. The Acer 5542G additionally delivered consistently playable anatomy ante in Microsoft Flight Simulator which is a absolutely ability athirst game, due to the attendance of huge textures and all-encompassing terrain.
Display performance:
The 220-nit aerial accuracy affectation of the Acer 5542G, gives accomplished affectation affection with acceptable accurateness and contrast. It additionally delivers actual acceptable and authentic blush reproduction (60% gamut). The viewability from abandon is not exceptional, but is adequate. The alone above disadvantage of the affectation is that it’s aerial bright accomplishment attracts glare. Hence it is not acceptable while examination adjoin any absolute ablaze source.
Audio Performance:
The Acer 5542G sports a Dolby certified audio system. The Realtek dent provides 32bit audio adaptation and provides SP-DIF and Dolby Agenda output. It additionally supports Dolby Headphone and Dolby Virtual Surround modes. It agency you will be in audio bliss, if you affix the Acer 5542G to a nice home theatre or high-end headphones.
The congenital speakers of the Acer 5542G acutely lacks the bass and was a disappointment during our tests. The complete acutely lacks the adduce aspect in it. It doesn’t beggarly that the speakers are worthless. The speakers accord you actual nice aerial and average ambit frequencies absolutely well. The audio aggregate levels were loud abundant and will be able if you are not in the average of a actual blatant environment.
Battery:
The Acer 5542G comes with a 6-cell array pack. It would apparently abort you, if you are attractive for a laptop with 3+ hours array backup. The lower array advancement can be attributed to the abundantly big 15.6″ affectation commutual with the committed cartoon agenda that can cesspool out absolutely a lot of array power. With the awning accuracy at low, I was able to access a 2 hours 50 account advancement with no audio, video or amateur angry on. At accomplished achievement setting, you can apprehend almost two hours of array backup.
Heating:
Being an AMD based laptop best of us who accept acclimated an AMD based sytem would accept apropos about over-heating. Stay cool. The Acer 5542G handles calefaction well. Aback you use it for continued hours for your circadian accretion needs, it doesn’t accomplish any cogent heat. I begin the calefaction abreast the approach blow regions below compared to some added Intel based aggressive laptop models. The Acer 5542G has able blast at the basal and has a aperture at the back, that assault the hot air out. The fan accomplish into aerial acceleration the burning things alpha accepting hot.
It doesn’t beggarly that the Acer 5542G won’t accomplish calefaction at all. The moment you alpha arena games, the aflush account changes. Admitting the Acer 5542G’s anatomy remained aloof warm, the aperture at the rear end was alarming out absolutely hot air, which acutely agency abundant calefaction generation, admitting it gets displaced well. Admitting the Acer 5542G gets abroad with the calefaction absolutely well, it would be a acceptable best to get an able laptop cooling pad if you are into austere gaming.
Other components:
The Acer 5542G comes with a acceptable DVD Writer, Bluetooth, Wireless LAN etc. These accessories performs absolutely able-bodied and doesn’t assume to accept any specific credibility account mentioning.
Accessories:
The laptop comes with a nice haversack from Targus with Acer logo on it. The haversack has able amplitude to backpack some added being in it while you are on the move. It’s body affection is acceptable and provides able cushioning for the laptop compartment.
Conclusion:
Acer 5542G is a laptop that brings abundant amount to those on a budget, who charge accomplished processing and cartoon performance. I awful acclaim it for all gaming enthusiasts and cartoon designers, attributable to the accomplished achievement of the processor and the cartoon band-aid built-in. It’s able processor can accommodated best of the acute accretion needs unless your needs ambition the ultra-high-end like an i7. The Acer 5542G able with it’s Turion II processor competes absolutely able-bodied with the Core2 Duos out there; no charge for the ‘Will AMD accomplish appropriately well?’ catechism anymore. It delivers barbarous processing power.
If you are an audiophile who would comedy music through the laptop’s congenital speakers annular the clock, Acer 5542G may not be the best clothing for you. If that is not a burning for you or if you accept a nice home theatre/headphone, again the Acer 5542G gives you abundant joy in the audio administration too, through it’s Dolby processing and agenda outputs. It all depends on your needs.
The array apparel the home accretion / gaming / designing needs. It’s 2+ hours advancement can handle your presentation, on-the-go needs too, admitting a 3+ hours advancement would accept been added recommendable.
The laptop archetypal I purchased comes loaded with Linpus linux operating arrangement (command alert only) and eliminates the Windows dependency, which helps the Acer 5542G accumulate its amount down. You ability additionally get a adaptation with Windows pre-loaded but for a college amount tag.
Pros:
Excellent processor
Excellent cartoon for designers and account gamers
Good Looks
Quite athletic design
Good Audio processing and agenda out
HDMI
Cons:
Built-in speakers do not bout the acceptable audio processing and lacks bass completely
Glossy awning difficult to assignment with in absolute light
Volume ascendancy keys could accept been softer to touch
Arrow keys needs refinement
