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Acer Aspire 5560G, any good?

post #1 of 5
7/25/11 at 2:23pm
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Hi, I was looking into buying a laptop for university. Primarily used for games, movies, music, word processing, internet surfing and maybe a little photo/video editing on the side. Looking around and I found this laptop:

NCIX.com - Buy Acer Aspire AS5560G-SB448 A8-3500M 1.33GHZ 6GB 750GB 15.6IN HD6650M 1GB DVDRW HDMI BT W7HP Notebook - Acer - LX.RNZ02.022 - in Canada

for the specs it looks like a fairly good deal. Just had some questions about the physical laptop, Im not familiar with Acer's build quality specifically this model (Acer Aspire AS5560G). I've heard that Acer's screens are uncomfortably glossy but it differs from model to model same with their build quality and customer service (mixed reviews). If anyone actually owns this model or has any opinions about it and the Acer brand, that'd be great. Just need to see if this laptops worth buying, thanks.

Specs 
- AMD A8-3500M (Quad Core Llano, 1.5Ghz, 4mb Cache)
- 6GB DDR3 Ram
- 750 GB HDD 5400 Rpm
- Radeon HD 6650M (1GB Dedicated DDR3 Ram)

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post #2 of 5
7/25/11 at 4:40pm
If you have an opportunity and if there is a store which sell that model near you, go check it out...looking, touching and personally checking it out go a long way..I have a couple of fairly new (couple of years old) Acers and never had any problems with either one..also have Toshibas and they are comparable in quality..Mind you, I am not a gamer.
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post #3 of 5
7/25/11 at 5:23pm
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Yeah I did want to go and check out a model in person and there is an NCIX store very close by, but unfortunately none of their retail locations have these in stock, they're shipped directly from the manufacturer/warehouse when ever someone orders them. Any opinions on the specs for the price? I know the new Llano processor is brand new but from what research I have done on it, it seems pretty good although I don't know to much about processors, seems comparable to an i5 sandybridge?

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post #4 of 5
7/26/11 at 4:34am
Here is a reasonably current list of mobile GPU rankings...If you are a high end gamer, then I suppose you would want something in the high end list of GPUs and I dont beleive the Radeon 6650 is there the 6650M is ranked pretty high
((http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Graphics-Cards-Benchmark-List.844.0.html))
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post #5 of 5
7/26/11 at 8:04am
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Well I'm not really a high-end gamer just need a decent card to run most games on high, the Radeon HD 6650M falls under mid range graphics card, and from the FPS benchmarks on notebook check it should be able to play both crysis and crysis 2 fluently on high which suits my needs fine.

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