Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #40506 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Acer
• Model: Aspire 5920G
• Released on: 2008-02-29

Manufacturer's Description
Overview
This 15.4" high-defintion performer is adorned with the new Gemstone notebook design and flaunts a wealth of superior multimedia features like NVIDIA® GeForce® 8600M graphics, HDMI™ connectivity, DVD-RW, Dolby®-certified surround sound and Acer Video Conference. Backed by the latest Intel® Centrino® Duo mobile platform with ample dual-core processing power, the Aspire 5920G easily handles today's most cutting-edge games, entertainment and creative applications.

Treasured Design
- Genuine Windows Vista™ Home Premium
- The alluring new Gemstone notebook design delivers quality of execution, enduring style, and superb usability via six captivating design features:
o Holographic 3D finish: The intriguing depth of the LCD cover features a dark, satin-finish sub-layer with the Acer logo floating above it.
o Opalesque contours: The whole notebook is shaped with a smooth opalesque curvature, providing a very comfortable touch.
o Enlightener Media flow: Beginning with a striking line of neon blue light, this line visually links the keyboard's mutlitmedia functions.
o Music Note speakers with Dolby® Home Theater™: Acer Aspires are the first full line of notebooks to feature Dolby® Surround sound for enhanced digital entertainment.
o Jewel-like inlay: The sapphire blue Aspire nameplate and Empowering Key emerge like radiant gems inlaid in a ceramic work of art.
o CeramiFinish interior surface: Presents a unique tactile experience and sports a refreshingly light, pearl grey shade.

Brilliant Performance
- Core™2 Duo mobile processor - powers intense digital experiences, delivering twice the performance for multitasking, and doubling entertainment and creative potential.
- Next generation graphics processing comes via the NVIDIA® GeForce® 8600M GS GPU with 256 MB of dedicated GDDR2 VRAM and full Microsoft® DirectX™ 10 support. Fantastic video and picture quality liven up hi-def games, movies, graphic design and more.
- Get 30 percent more multimedia viewing space than with traditional 4:3 XGA displays via the wide-aspect 15.4" screen. Enjoy videos, movies and photos more than ever!
- Up to 3GB of RAM means you can handle multiple tasks without any impact on the performance of your machine.
- Acer CrystalBrite™ enhances high-definition video display performance with ultra-quick 8 ms response time.
- Large Serial ATA hard disk of 250GB provides 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.

Amazing Entertainment
- Windows Media Centre lets you listen to music from a variety of sources, enjoy DVD movies, and create multimedia through one convenient interface
- The Aspire 5920G is part of the world's first full line of Aspire notebooks to feature Dolby® Home Theater™ for truly enhanced cinema-style 5.1-channel surround sound directly through the notebook's impressive Music Note speakers. The powerful subwoofer reproduces low frequencies to strengthen bass beats, deepening audio experiences with full-range sound.
- S/PDIF support absorbs you in game and movie action with immersive sound through the home theatre system.
- Acer eAudio Management provides centralised control over notebook audio, and specialised audio modes for movies, music and games.
- Acer's MediaTouch keys give one-touch access to total media control while the Easy-launch buttons facilitate faster pathways to frequently used PC functions.

Powerful Communication
- The Acer CrystalEye webcam gives you the potential to chat, face-to-face over msn messenger or when used with a telephone it can provide a full video conference solution.
- The Intel® PRO/Wireless 3945ABG, supporting Acer SignalUp™ wireless technology, provides total interoperability and the best connection to wireless networks! The Aspire 5920G also comes with Gigabit Ethernet for high bandwidth and massive downloading potential for web-based multimedia.

E & OE
Specifications are subject to change without prior notice.

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Customer Reviews

It should get 4 1/2 stars
I didn't buy my laptop from Amazon as it wasn't available when I needed it but I can highly recommend this product even though I've only had it for 2 weeks. I didn't want the 5920G with the HD Drive as I knew Blue-Ray was going to win the battle so I opted for this. Below are the Pro's and Con's of this laptop (there are more Pro's than Con's!!!)

Pro's
Large Hard Drive-I've stored all my music (huge collection) games like Half Life 2 and all of my university work and journals onto the laptop and I've still got over 140GB left!!!
WiFi-Even though its only ABG it picks up signals from far off (as in 5 houses down from mine...Quite a way)
Graphics card-yes it's not the best Nvidia card on the market but it's still a good mid-range one. I have played demanding games like Half-life 2 on it comfortably.
The display-watching movies and things like YouTube are great-it may not be HD display but it's very good. If you wanted to you can connect your Laptop to a HD telly via the HDMI port.

Con's
Mouse tracker on laptop is very poor-if you use it occasionally its ok but if you're like me and you use your laptop a lot invest in a mouse.
Crystal eye webcam-it's only 0.3mp...if you use it occasionally its fine but if you use it a lot get another one or buy a different laptop e.g. Dell have a built in 2.0mp in some ranges.
Acer website for updates is very poor. If you want to update the laptop especially the graphics card then you'll have to find websites e.g. LaptopVideo2Go.
Lastly just a minor point, there are preloaded products on the laptop which I would never use such as Orion and Acer's Arcade Deluxe...do what I've done and uninstall them.

Overall if you want an extreme gaming laptop there are better available e.g. Dell XPS and HP Pavilion, if you want something that just does emails and word processing this laptop has too much for you. However if you're like me and want to play latest games but not all the time and/or you need everything going at once (MSN messenger, email, word document, music in background etc) then this is for you!!

Fantastic laptop - is there anything it can't do?
The Acer Aspire 5920G is one of those products that makes you think, "how the hell did they pack all that hardware into a casing that size?".

Well, I'm not too sure myself, but they've done it. Somehow the boffins at Acer have crammed a dual core processor, shedloads of RAM and 250 gig hard drive into this thing, and then found space to throw in a HD DVD drive and dedicated graphics from nvidia.

With all this kit, the Aspire 5920G handles everything I've thrown at it with ease. Running off battery power using just Word and Internet Explorer I've had well over the three hours the description says you get from a full charge. Running off the battery power playing DVDs I can get a whole movie plus some extra. I mean, how do they do it?

That dedicated graphics card from nvidia makes gaming a breeze, and you can even play games on battery power (you can reduce CPU speed to trade framerate for battery life). I've had modern games like Half Life 2, Portal and Timeshift running smoothly. The screen is great, too, just the right size and crystal clear.

The touchpad is fine, just like most laptops,. However you may want to invest in a mouse (I chose this Microsoft one)for long periods of work and games, but that's no fault with the laptop itself, and the pad is actually very responsive and not uncomfortable to use.

For £450, you get something far superior to similarly priced laptops. I still don't know how they do it, but I can certainly recommend this bit of kit.

For £450 you have to buy this laptop
I recently purchased this laptop of Amazon as I was looking for a new laptop. The features of the Acer Aspire 5920G are more than you will find for any other laptop currently priced at £450, from the nVidia dedicated graphics to the 250 GB hard-drive this laptop is brilliant value. I dont know how Amazon manage to sell this laptop 25% cheaper than it should be, but I do know that this is the best laptop you will find for the money