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Acer Aspire 5920-6954

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Pros
Exceptionally nice keyboard
Good graphics/gaming capabilities
Cons
On the heavy side

Performance: Fair: 67
Features: Good: 77
Design: Very Good: 85

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

Performance
Adobe Photoshop CS2	605
Autodesk 3ds max 8.0 SP-3 DirectX	480
Autodesk 3ds max 8.0 SP-3 Rendering	983
Battery Life (Video Playback in hh:mm)	3:52:21 AM
Doom 3, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	59.43
Far Cry, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	76.48
Firefox 2	400
Microsoft Office 2003 with SP-1	424
Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 9.0	327
Multitasking	513
Nero 7 Ultra Edition	593
Number of Included Batteries	1
Roxio VideoWave Movie Creator 1.5	289
Winzip Computing WinZip 10.0	384
WorldBench 6 Score	70
WorldBench 6 Word Score	Fair

What You Should Know about the Aspire 5920-6954

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.

Reviewed by: spidermanderson

Duration of ownership:

Strengths: Price, video card, sound, battery, sturdy case, HD 250gig, webcam and processor speed.

Weaknesses: Laptop software conflict and overkill- better if just Vista buy itself.

Overall Evaluation: I needed a gaming and college computer for daughter. Bought this for $835. Set it up with various games and set the graphics on high to test 8600 and found excellent results. The video card was fast enough with the dedicated memory to handle all the games she couldn't play before with her desktop. The movie playback was NG, I first thought the HD dvd drive was defective because of stalling but instead installed Nero Showtime and found that everything was all working great. The soundcard and speakers (including the subwoofer) sounded great. The software onboard was typical crap. Vista in the video games gave no problem at all, worked well. The ram for the price is good enough but every body knows you can never have enough. The case is sturdy which is great, stops the motherboard flex problems that allot of other laptops have. Battery lasted 3 hrs. installing and setting it up till I realized it wasn't plugged in, it let me know in plenty of time.