Acer Aspire 5253-BZ480 15.6" AMD E350 HD 6310

Just picked up this laptop at Staples for $379 today for the wife. Awesome price!

Acer® Aspire AS5253-BZ480 15.6" Laptop | Staples®

AMD Dual-Core E-350 Processor (1.6GHz)
4GB installed memory
320GB hard drive
15.6" HD Widescreen CineCrystal™ LED LCD Display
8X DVD-Super Multi Double-Layer Drive
802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™
2-in-1 Digital Media Card Reader
1.3 Megapixel HD Webcam (1280 x 1024 resolution)
6-Cell Lithium-Ion (4400 mAh); Up to 3-hours, 20 minutes Battery Life
Windows® 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Dimensions 15"W x 9.96"D x .98/1.33"H (5.74lbs)
1 year warranty


Switched out the memory and hard drive so far. The stock hard drive is 5400 rpms fyi.

Will update more in a few hours.

The screen is 1366 x 768

http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l8/ifarted2/Specs.jpg

 

I picked up this laptop at Staples on Monday. So far so good. I really like how cool and quiet it is.

After I unpacked it, I did the usual of uninstalling all the bloatware that it comes with. I usually would just reinstall Windows but this unit is for my mom. It's just going to be sitting there on, all day.

I ran Prime95 for about 4 hours. And then ran 3DMark11 for another 4 hours. My purpose was to stress the APU to make sure it doesn't hang or blue screen. The temperature kept cool through out the runs.

 

So far Ive gotten 3hrs and 40 mins love the laptop! Can't wait till the next AMD drivers comes out!

 

3h40m is not bad. But I'm curious what things were you doing on it?

I was going to wait for the new Fusion APUs to come out...I think the new ones are being launched in ~May. But my mom needed a new laptop pretty badly. Her 6 year old laptop just wasn't cutting it.

Screen brightness setting?
Wifi on? g or n?
Surfing net?
Outlook?
Excel?
Word?
PowerPoint?
Play MP3?
Watching movies?

 

Just got one from staples at the same price- had the HP dm1 before- so I knew it is zippy enough for my daughter to play with with the larger screen, dvd-rw, and 4gb ram memory. Awesome price for the performance. Hopefully AMD continues with this trend of releasing better than intel atom crap.

I am astounded that such a low end graphic card can still handle games at low-medium setting well. I might get a llano version when it comes out for work.

 

I would have expected some better battery life than these 3h something, especially these are low power CPUs.

Michael

 

I have the HP DMZ1 with the it gets around 7 hrs. Im sure at $379 the battery is lacking in capacity. I will look up the specs