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My friend who previously had a Acer Aspire 4710 wanted to upgrade to a more powerful entertainment laptop, Acer Aspire 5738 seemed to be the most value for money proposition beating out rivals like Dell Studio 15, HP etc. First here are the specs at a glance
Intel Core 2 Duo T6400, 4GB DDR3 RAM, 320GB HD,512MB Nvidia GeForce Graphics, 15.6″ LCD display (16:9), DVD Burner, 4 USB ports, 1 HDMI port, Multi-card reader, Bluetooth, Windows Vista Home premium
Look wise the overall profile was similar to the previous apsire 4710, but the top was made of a glossy blue material making it much more striking and the keyboard part of it was made of dark patterned grey material giving it a sophisticated feel. Its not as thin or svelte looking as a Dell Studio or HP DV series but its quite good. The build quality seemed ok but the hinges still seem to shake when kept under a ceiling fan.
Powering On, windows vista intialization was quite smooth and I was for the first time seeing the difference between a LED backlight LCD display and my IdeaPad’s own normal LCD display. There were quite a lot of demo games and some bloatware preloaded in the machine. The first step the laptop prompted was to create recovery cd’s (2 dvds) using the acer recovery management software and that was also when i first noticed there was no vista recovery dvd’s given in the box. Anyway after burning 2 DVD’s that step was done.
I was curios to find what it feels like to have a 512MB NVidia Geforce graphics inside the hood, the windows experience rating for Graphics and Gaming Graphics was 4.1 whereas my Intel shared graphics Lenovo Y410 was only 3.4 . The Aero interface along with other eye candy stuff of windows vista was smooth and I was able to Moto GP3 and Max Payne 2 at the highest resolution of 1366 x 760 x 32 pixels.
Since being a entertainment system with acer’s dolby digital surround system I was impressed by the sound quality from audio songs and from videos. And the HD capable 15.6″ screen was impressive to look at with nice and vivid color reproduction.
And the 15.6″ screen has also made space for a full fledged keyboard with nicely spaced out keys and a dedicated number keypad ala ps/2 keyboards for desktop pc’s. Overall I was impressed by its features and working but this is a brand new laptop which I was playing with so time only will tell about its reliability. But for a street price of Rs. 42,900/- including a bag and taxes it seems a great deal for a portable home entertainment & computing system.
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August 10th, 2009 at 11:01 am
Nice short review. What about heat during normal usage?
Anand
August 10th, 2009 at 5:36 pm
Thanks …..I didn’t find any abnormal heating in the trackpad / HD / battery area for short time use …..
August 17th, 2009 at 1:10 am
Although the machine configuration wise seems to be good, but the Keyboard & Mouse is just not good.
I bought it, but the keyboard was so hard i just could not manage normal typing. Keys needs to be pressed in a specific manner only, else it will not work, Mouse click is also so hard.
I have already send it to customer service twice but they also are not able to do much on that.
I would recommend, to try typing on this machine before buying.
Sudhanshu
August 17th, 2009 at 10:17 am
Thanks Sudanshu for your valuable comments ….keep visiting Techie cocktail and keep commenting
September 14th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
Well, I just purchased this laptop last week, in my case with an ATI 4750 HD, also with 512mb dedicated memory. I’ve had no problems with the keyboard, and I do a lot of typing. I find the tochpad a little too big, but I guess that’s one of the disadvantages of having a 15.6″ screen.
Until now, I’ve only played GTA IV in medium quality, and it’s performed quite well, so I have no complain. I bought it to replace my 6 year old Dell Inspiron and did not have gaming in mind, just price, so I got more than I expected. The price here was 499 euros ($726, more or less), so it’s quite cheap for what you get. I’ve already preordered Windows 7 update, for just 15 euros, for S&H, so in a few months, the laptop should be performing quite better.
March 15th, 2010 at 3:37 pm
Hey nice review… I to have the same and I am very happy with it