Acer Aspire 5920 review

Acer Aspire 5920 Review

Reviewed by: Rory Reid

Reviewed on: 31 May 2007

Acer rounds up the package by providing an ExpressCard slot, a memory card reader supporting most popular formats, Wi-Fi (including 300Mbps 802.11n support), infrared and an integrated Crystal Eye webcam. Software includes the very useful Acer Empowering Technology (Acer eNet, ePower, ePresentation, eLock, eRecovery, eSettings Management), which you can read more about here. You also get a trial of Norton Internet Security, NTI CD-Maker and CyberLink PowerProducer.

Performance
The Aspire 5920 is a very quick laptop. Gamers will be interested to hear it scored 3,288 in 3DMark 2006. This trounces the 2,344 achieved by the Asus Lamborghini VX2. It was also impressive in real-world tests, propelling the graphically intensive F.E.A.R to 28 frames per second.

As expected, it had no trouble running more mundane applications. It munched its way through our PCMark 2005 test,, racking up 4,739, which is higher than the theoretically quicker Asus V1J. We suspect the Intel Turbo Memory played a role here, although the extra 1GB of system memory obviously doesn't hurt either.

Battery life was about average for this sort of laptop. It lasted 133 minutes in our BatteryEater test, which is exactly long enough to let you watch The Blues Brothers on DVD.

Conclusion
The Aspire 5920 is a well-equipped PC that offers fantastic value for money. It's not as attractive or as well-designed as the Asus Lamborghini VX2, for example, but if you don't mind the beige it's certainly worth considering.

Edited by Jason Jenkins
Additional editing by Nick Hide