Review of Acer 5005 Ferrari Notebook
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Start your engines, drivers. But don't expect to be winning any races. Such is the race-time decision posed by the new Acer Ferrari 5005WLMi.
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Start your engines, drivers. But don't expect to be winning any races. Such is the race-time decision posed by the new Acer Ferrari 5005WLMi. Starting at $2,399 retail, or $2,699 for a Windows Vista version, this new Ferrari is the bigger, more desktop-oriented brother of the Ferrari 1000 ultraportable.
But with that price tag and a name like Ferrari, you'd expect some excitement when the rubber meets the road. But no rubber burns when you boot up the Acer. Instead, it rides more like a Bentley. It delivers a lot of classy looks, with its carbon-sculpted lid fitted the famous Ferrari logo, its red highlights. Yet the laptop is more designed for a leisurely if not zippy cruise to work, rather than tearing up the competition around the proverbial track.
Part of the reason could lie in the 2GB of memory mixed with the 2-GHz AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-60 processor, which don't deliver the torque that most similarly priced laptops crank out. Don't expect to swap out the RAM for a turbocharged version, either. The memory is not expandable.
The 256MB ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 graphics processor can handle the curves of most 3-D gaming, but again, it isn't going to blow expensive gaming laptops out of the water.
Instead, what Acer delivers with its bigger Ferrari 5005 is a comfortable, cool ride that will look nice parked on your workstation, and set any businessperson or rich college kid apart from all of the other cookie-cutter laptop users out there. And comfort comes with all the extra knobs and dials, such as a high-def multimedia interface, a 5-in-1 card reader, a 15.4 inch glossy screen, DVD burner, BlueTooth, 160GB (5,400 rpm) hard drive, and a VOIP phone, among others.
Acer 5005 Ferrari Notebook Technical Specifications
- Processor 2GHz AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-60
- Memory 2GB
- Harddrive 160GB 5,400rpm SATA
- OS Windows XP Pro
- Weight 6.6 pounds (3 kg)
- Screen 15.4 inches
- Screen resolution 1680x1050
- Graphic Card ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 256MB
- Battery Life 3.5 hours
Pros
- Solid build
- Strong performance
- Good battery life
- Slot-loading optical drive
Cons
- Very pricey
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