Acer AS5253-BZ602

[ericlp]

http://shop.amd.com/US/_layouts/shop/ProductDetails.aspx?productID=LX.RD502.005&region=us-en&tabID=1

Acer AS5253-BZ602 (LX.RD502.005) AMD Dual-Core Processor E-350 with AMD Radeon HD 6310 Graphics 15.6inch 2GB RAM 250GB HD Windows 7 Home Premium

How bad can it be for 400 bucks w 2 day shipping for buy.com? Anyone own one? I can't really find a single review from anyone that actually purchased one.

 

[DaveSimmons]

A netbook class CPU in a full-size laptop doesn't appeal to me, but build quality is probably no worse than any other $399 cheap 15.6".

If that was my budget limit I'd be looking for a closeout model with 3-4 GB RAM and at least a dual-core Pentium or Athlon X2 CPU at 2+ GHz.

 

[Dingas]

I saw it for 379$ at micro-center today, but the projected 3&1/2 hour battery life didn't sound so spiffy.

 

[OS]

some aspects of these low cost computers almost seem to be going backwards, i got my acer 5534 for $350 for BF 2009, it has 4GB, 320GB and half pound lighter

 

[Husky55]

I am surprised that the AMD E-350 has only 3 hours project battety life in this laptop. Must be because Acer put in a cheap battery? 4 cell?

 

[ericlp]

AMD Zacate E-350 Processor Performance ... Actually the E-350 is AMD's solution to Notebooks. C series was suppose to go into netbooks.

Performance Summary: There are three high-level areas of performance we can consider when looking back through the benchmark data for AMD's Zacate platform: general CPU performance, graphics/multimedia performance and performance-per-watt. In terms of general CPU performance, this early engineering sample of Zacate proved itself to be faster than a 1.8GHz dual-core Atom processor across the board and in some tests, like our Lame MT audio encoding test, it was significantly faster. On the GPU side of things, Zacate performs a lot like a dual-core Atom system backed up by NVIDIA's Ion 2 chip, only Zacate does this all on a single chip/die and at decidedly lower power consumption at idle and under load. To us, that looks like a hat-trick.

Maybe it's the build quality of the 15" screen that is sucking down battery life? Or just a crappy made 6cell battery from acer?