Acer Aspire AS5552G-7464 AMD Phenom II X4 N970 6GB 500GB 15.6IN Radeon 6650 DVDRW WIN7 HP Notebook

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Loved it for its price and its power.Offered very high end play ability for its price range

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I have been impressed with every aspect of the computer except for 1 thing:The Caps Lock, Num Lock, and Scroll Lock buttons don't have a visible "on" light or display. For example, if you hit Caps Lock, the only way of seeing if you have it on is by typing something. It would be nice to have some sort of visual cue. It's not a huge deal but just a tiny thing that will eventually get annoying.As for the build quality, performance and stuff like that, it's all fine. I honestly think people who complain about Acer's products have dropped the product (or their heads) on the stairs one too many times. Every aspect of the laptop is very sturdy and has a quality finish to it.

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For the price, i couldnt find another laptop with such processing power. System loads quickly and i never have to wait for programs to load up

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For $600, you're going to have a lot of difficulty finding another laptop that has as good of a graphics card as the ATI Radeon 6650M. The Quad-Core CPU may not trump Intel's high-end chips, but from the benchmarks I've seen it should at least challenge something like an i5 480M.I've not encountered any problems with the machine's functionality as of yet - everything works as advertised, including all the games I've tested so far. In fact, I did some benchmarking of my own, which I guess I'll just show you now:2011-05-03 22:48:21 - Crysis2Frames: 14918 - Time: 334935ms - Avg: 44.540 - Min: 0 - Max: 61(Settings: High quality, no AA, no motion blur)2011-05-04 20:09:45 - BorderlandsFrames: 39506 - Time: 668870ms - Avg: 59.064 - Min: 24 - Max: 64(Settings: High textures/graphics quality, no AA)2011-05-04 21:32:44 - CivilizationV_DX11Frames: 13417 - Time: 275357ms - Avg: 48.726 - Min: 0 - Max: 82(Settings: High textures/graphics quality, medium shadows, low fog of war, no AA)All games tested on the native resolution of 1366x768 and benchmarked with FRAPS. Some sample screenshots I took are over here: http://dark2025.imgur.com/screenshots (please view full resolution for best results)Don't worry about the 0 minimums on Civ V and Crysis 2, that happened due to loading, which is impressive because the average still managed to be pretty high despite the 0 FPS during load times.The hardware did get warm on the left side after gaming sessions, but I wouldn't say it felt hot. Just make sure to clean the fan once in a while (as you should with any laptop, really).Basically, it's a very decent all-purpose laptop, especially for the price. Highly recommended if you're looking for a low-end gaming laptop.

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This is a good notebook powered by an AMD Phenom II X4. This is not the best processor compared with Intel I7, but it will do a great job for all your needs. You can play games and run Virtual Machines perfectly with this notebook. I have changed the 500gb hard drive for a 64gb SSD Kingston V+ and it's more faster! I score a 6,7 / 7,9 in the performance test of Windows 7. I think it's great!! :DI think the more weakness of this notebook it's the mono speaker. I don't understand why Acer havn't put a second speaker in this notebook. But, if music doesn'y matter and that you have earphone of external speaker, you will not be concerned by this small annoying thing!This notebook worth the price!