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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #57770 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Acer
• Model: Aspire 5920G
• Released on: 2007-10-23

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 GT graphics on selected models, HDMI connectivity, DVD-RW or HD DVD, 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 5920 easily handles today's most cutting-edge games, entertainment and creative applications.

Treasured Design (on Aspire 5920G only)

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:

Holographic 3D finish: The intriguing depth of the LCD cover features a dark, satin-finish sub-layer with the Acer logo floating above it

Opalesque contours: The whole notebook is shaped with a smooth opalesque curvature, providing a very comfortable touch.

Enlightener Media flow: Beginning with a striking line of neon blue light, this line visually links the keyboard's mutlitmedia functions.

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.

Jewel-like inlay: The sapphire blue Aspire nameplate and Empowering Key emerge like radiant gems inlaid in a ceramic work of art.

CeramiFinish interior surface: Presents a unique tactile experience and sports a refreshingly light, pearl gray shade.

Brilliant Performance

Core2 Duo mobile processor - powers intense digital experiences, delivering twice the performance for multitasking, and doubling entertainment and creative potential.

With support for Intel Turbo Memory (on selected models), application startups are accelerated to 2X the speed as compared to notebooks without this feature.

Next generation graphics processing comes via a choice of integrated Intel GMA X1300 or the NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT 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!

A massive 2GB 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 disks up to 250GB provide 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 5920 displays high-definition entertainment with NVIDIA PureVideo HD Technology (on selected models):

Hi-def gaming: Full Microsoft DirectX 10 and Shader Model 4.0 support, empowers high-resolution games with superior display quality.

Hi-def video: PureVideo HD plays back stunning HD DVD movies with vibrant video and superb picture clarity.

Hi-def power: Discrete hardware acceleration and CPU offloading free up more power for improved multimedia potential.

HDMI transmits audio and 1080p video at up to 6X the resolution of DVD over all your digital home devices with HDCP support for complete security.

The Aspire 5920 is part of the world's first full line of Aspire notebooks to feature Dolby Home Theater (on selected models) 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 theater system.

Acer eAudio Management provides centralized 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 and Next-Gen Wireless-N (on selected models), supporting Acer SignalUp wireless technology, provides total interoperability and the best connection to wireless networks! The Aspire 5920 also comes with Gigabit Ethernet for high bandwidth and massive downloading potential for web-based multimedia.

Box Contents

Acer Aspire 5920G

Power Cord

User Manual

Warranty Registration Card

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Customer Reviews

Brilliant machine
Brilliant machine.

I've had mine about a month now and I'm very happy with it. Nice styling, very good performance and great screen. Very good spec for the price but if you want to get the most out of the graphics card you will need to install a modded version of the most recent NVidia drivers.

Wi-fi reception is excellent and I find the card reader a very handy addition. I don't have any HD disks but the DVD writer works well and it's great for playing DVD's - best sound I've ever come across on a laptop without using external speakers. The build-in web cam (and stereo mike) is also surprisingly good.

Build quality seems fairly solid, bit of movement in the keyboard and key travel is fairly short, but nothing that detracts from using it. The touch sensitive "media player" buttons on the right-hand side are a pain - too easy to trigger by brushing against them. You can adjust their sensitivity or disable them - I found the latter the best solution since in normal use I don't need them.

The laptop isn't particularly slim or light, but with everything that's packed into it that isn't surprising - at the same time it isn't a huge beast and is reassuringly solid. Battery life is pretty much what you'd expect, a couple of hours with normal use for me.

Acer have a poor rep for customer service, but I always go back to the vendor rather than the manufacturer if there is a problem (know your rights) and I've always found Amazon very helpful on the few occasions I've had need to. All in all a very nice laptop and for me a pretty good desktop replacement.

Excellent laptop - slightly shaky build but a great deal overall
I bought this laptop in January 2008 and have had an excellent experience with it thus far.

PROS

Spec ,Spec, Spec...

The machine is very well specced and is as future-proofed as you are going to get at this price range. Then again, someone who is hell bent on getting the most highly specced laptop is not going to be looking at ACER but more likely at an Alienware or Dell XPS.

I can't think of more laptop muscle for the money. It has the latest Centrino platform Santa Rosa, a decent Core 2 duo processor and a nice 2gb of RAM.

The 250GB hard drive is a good capacity for those without mega music collections. Although if you do have acres of data, as external drives are dirt cheap now, expansion is easy.

The screen is bright and easy to read at the native resolution.

The graphics card, whilst not the 8600m GT version, is good enough to play previous generation games at a good framerate (call of duty 2, Half Life 2) but I have not yet tested it on any of the latest games. It does run Oblivion reasonably well but you have to update the drivers from Laptop2go...

Nice connectivity - USB x4 and Firewire.

Turbocache - well actually I can't say I've notice the difference - Vista still seems to chug along at a miserly pace. Still, better than a kick in the teeth eh?

The inbuilt speakers are excellent for a laptop. Nice volume - but hey ACER, let's not call the speaker under the keyboard a "subwoofer" eh? It's smaller than some headphone drivers...

Battery life excellent for this spec

CONS

I am used to using IBM Thinkpad machines and whilst it is unfair to draw parallels between these and the ACER given the disparity between the prices, I must say that the keyboard on the ACER leaves plenty to be desired. The keys appear flimsy and the action is less than confident.

The touchpad is woeful. It is not recessed which means that it is all too easy to touch inadvertently. I have taken to using an external mouse and disabling the touchpad (FN+F7) which improves matters considerably but this doesn't get around the fact that it is poorly designed on an ergonomic front.

The case is not too hard wearing. I packed it in a bag which was a little too tight and the screen suffered some pixel damage due to the top of the case impacting the screen upon the ledge under the spacebar. Not great.

The volume knob is a continuous adjuster which operates only in software. Therefore, you cannot adjust the volume until Windows is fully loaded. A small point but it is annoying if you turn the power on whilst in a train/plane/public space and you previously had the volume at a high level.

Windows Vista - but that's not ACER's fault. I installed two Windows XP partitions beside the Vista partition - one for using the PC with Cubase SX and the other for gaming under XP - so now have a triple boot system. Was a nightmare to get it configured and find the correct drivers but you should see this laptop screeeammm under XP. Lightning fast.

The drive is HD-DVD compatible. Now Toshiba have pulled the plug this isn't such a great deal...

OVERALL

Great laptop for the money. There are cheaper and there are faster, but this is positioned at a particularly desirable sweet spot which hooked me and I am delighted with my purchase.

Great laptop for the price
I have had this Acer Aspire 5920G laptop for just over one month and it has proved to be a really good purchase. It handles picture files and slide shows very well including the fact that many of the pictures are very large. The screen is a gem and has no problems even when the battery is running down. Jolly glad of the large 250 hard drive well worth the extra, handles video streaming smoothly. Just what I needed.

Internet connection via WiFi is so good thanks to it's very senative arial I pick up 5 other networks in my local area as well as my own.

Go on treat yourself this is a really fab machine, and the light coloured keys with dark lettering are a boon when it comes to using the keyboard in dim light the keys can be seen so much easier than on my old laptop which had a black keyboard with white letters on.

Great computer!