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Jul 04
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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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