Friday, March 1, 2013

Acer Aspire V5 touch notebook

Acer Aspire V5 touch notebook

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Sleek design with a touch interface are currently the most important trends for notebooks. Not only the smaller laptops but also the larger ones are starting to get this treatment. The Acer Aspire V5 is an example of this. It's a 15-inch laptop with adapter like Acer Ferrari 1100 Ac Adapter, Acer GARDA53 Ac Adapter, Acer CGR-B/350AW Ac Adapter, Acer CGR-B/6G8AW Ac Adapter, Acer Ferrari 1000 Ac Adapter, Acer Ferrari 1005 Ac Adapter, Acer TravelMate 3000 Ac Adapter, Acer UM09E31 Ac Adapter, Acer UM09E51 Ac Adapter, Acer UM09E78 Ac Adapter, Acer Aspire 1410T Ac Adapter, Acer Aspire 1810T Ac Adapter, and Hardware.Info tested the more high-end version.

The Acer Aspire V5 series comes in many different versions, with the most deluxe model costing about twice that of the entry-level configuration. Our test model comes with a back-lit keyboard, touchscreen and runs on an Intel Core i5 processor. The entry-level model is stuck with a slower Intel Pentium CPU.

The Intel Core i5 3317U is a dual-core processor that's frequently used in Ultrabooks and provides decent performance. Acer put two 4 GB RAM modules in the notebook for a total of 8 GB of RAM. Graphics are provided by an Nvidia GeForce GT620M with 1GB of video memory, but it's not a very powerful GPU. While it's faster than the integrated graphics of the Intel HD Graphics 4000, it's not really enough for gaming.

We used PowerMark to measure how long the tablet runs on a single battery charge. The Productivity test simulates using MS Office applications, and is lighter than the Entertainment test. The battery life is poor. In the more demanding test the Acer lasts barely an hour, in the easier one it lasts 2.5 hours. It's because Acer used a very small battery, perhaps to keep the weight down.

About the only interesting quality of the Acer Aspire V5 is its touch screen. The version we tested is too expensive for what you get.

We had expected a higher resolution and an IPS screen at this price point, and the plastic body, slow hard disk and less-than-powerful GPU don't really manage to get us excited about this product. The GeForce GT620M graphics card is not quite fast enough for gaming, while the integrated Intel HD Graphics 4000 is good enough for general use. The battery is another weak feature, under heavy load you're lucky if the laptop lasts an hour on a single charge. That's poor considering the notebook has an energy-efficient Core i5. If you do like the Aspire V5, you're better off saving money by not getting the Nvidia card. The 14-inch model with Core i5, 6 GB RAM and a 500 GB hard disk is also an interesting option if you can live with the tiny battery.

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