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Start Your Engines: 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.
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. |
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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. Read - Acer Ferrari 5005 Review Related article: - Ferrari 4000 By Matthew Brodsky - Laptopical Tuesday, March 06, 2007 |
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