Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #22830 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Acer
• Model: Aspire 5315
• Released on: 2007-10-31

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Manufacturer's Description
Overview

The Aspire 5315 delivers ultra-affordable entertainment performance for students and home users, encased in Acer’s new, stylish Gemstone design. Utilising the Intel® Celeron® mobile processor, Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950, this notebook possesses powerful multimedia potential.

Affordable Performance

• A choice of Genuine Windows Vista Home Basic or Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium to suit what kind of user you are
• The Intel® Celeron® mobile processor is ready for multitasking on a large scale, even with plenty of intense multimedia
• The Mobile Intel® 960GML Express Chipset with integrated 3D graphics via the Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950 takes on hi-def applications and displays brilliant, intensive imagery
• A wide-aspect 15.4" screen provides 30 percent more viewing area than traditional 4:3 XGA displays, for additional space and more windows
• The high-brightness (220-nit) Acer CrystalBrite™ TFT LCD enhances hi-def video display performance
• A choice of 80GB or 120GB Serial ATA hard disk offers substantial storage and allows the system to boot up and load multimedia applications faster
• Acer Empowering Technology consolidates access to useful computer management tools, giving you more control over your computer

• Windows Media Centre lets you listen to music from a variety of sources, enjoy DVD movies, and create multimedia through one convenient interface
• Media control keys enable convenient media management while easy-launch buttons facilitate access to often used applications

• The Acer InviLink™ 802.11b/g Wi-Fi CERTIFIED® solution, supporting Acer SignalUp™ wireless technology, ensures great on-the-move connectivity

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Customer Reviews

superb value for money
Has everything for an entry level laptop and is about £100 cheaper than similar machines.

Looks a million dollars with its glossy modern widescreen and works like a charm

highly recommended but dont expect the earth

Basic Laptop
The Acer Aspire 5315 may not be a 'top of the range' laptop, but there again you are not paying top dollar.

It's fine for someone who wants to surf the web, send emails, edit a few photo's, do a bit of office work. It's fairly nice looking to although not the best.

The only thing that lets it down is that it comes with Vista Home Basic and not premium.

Cheap, cheerful, and gets the job done
If you need a cheap laptop for every day tasks such as web browsing, email, word processing, watching movies and listening to music the Aspire 5315 fits the bill.

Hardware Specification:
Very good value for money. 1.7Ghz Celeron cpu, 1GB RAM, 80GB hard disk, wifi, dvd burner, and a bright and clear 15.4" lcd screen (native resolution 1200x800). The ac power supply brick is small and light. The battery lasts a couple of hours in real world application use.

Build Quality:
As far as build quality goes, the outer case feels a little plasticky and light, and so may not be suitable if you're looking for a laptop to use on trains and in cafes etc. The keyboard feels soft and doesn't have much bite when you type. I prefer a harder keyboard myself. The screen occasionally makes a ringing sound when the battery is recharging from the ac. It's clear that some corners have been cut as far as build quality goes to bring the price down.

Operating System:
Vista Basic. This is the only real negative. This and the Acer Power Management Software (which you must run to avoid overheating and crashing when resuming from sleep mode) consume a very large chunk of memory. I would strongly advise adding another 1GB of memory to get best performance, and possibly upgrading to the premium version of Vista.

Linux Compatability:
I ended up wiping Vista and installing Ubuntu Linux 7.10 instead. The Atheros wifi and the sound card weren't detected upon install, but I had them both working within a couple of days after reading the Ubuntu forums. Getting the sound to work was a matter of typing a couple of lines into the terminal, and the wifi was up and running after using the windows drivers via ndiswrapper. I'm a linux newbie and managed it without too much trouble. This is a very good laptop to buy if you fancy dipping your toes into Linux.