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Acer Aspire 5920

75

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Pros
Shortcut-loaded multimedia keyboard
Subwoofer-supported speakers
Cons
Screen has slight glare problem
Short battery life

Performance: Fair: 67
Features: Good: 78
Design: Very Good: 84

Find out how these scores, and their relative weights, combine to produce the PC World Rating.

Performance
Adobe Photoshop CS2	552
Autodesk 3ds max 8.0 SP-3 DirectX	409
Autodesk 3ds max 8.0 SP-3 Rendering	816
Battery Life (Video Playback in hh:mm)	3:15:34 AM
Doom 3, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	82.77
Far Cry, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	114.78
Firefox 2	317
Microsoft Office 2003 with SP-1	390
Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 9.0	280
Multitasking	415
Nero 7 Ultra Edition	887
Number of Included Batteries	1
Roxio VideoWave Movie Creator 1.5	254
Winzip Computing WinZip 10.0	403
WorldBench 6 Score	77
WorldBench 6 Word Score	Fair

What You Should Know about the Aspire 5920

Multitask and Not Bog Down

The more memory a PC has, the faster your programs run and the more windows you can work in simultaneously. Equipped with memory between 1GB and 3GB, this laptop should be able to handle just about any task you can throw at it without bogging down too much. For instance, if you're a multitasker and you'd like to burn a music CD in one window while watching your favorite DVD movie (for the umpteenth time) in another--while flipping between your inbox and your browser to work on your blog during the movie's boring parts--this laptop can manage it all without a hiccup.