Acer Aspire 9300-5005 - PC Mag
PC Magazine have reviewed the Acer Aspire 9300-500 "desktop-replacement" laptop. 'The Aspire 9300 offers a good blend of features for all things multimedia. The four USB ports are more than enough to connect to various peripherals. You can import video footage from your camcorder using the FireWire port, but I did find that process a little slow with Windows Movie Maker 6.0 (built into Vista). Clearly, that's a performance issue: The video-encoding software heavily taxes the already slow processor.
Adobe Photoshop CS2, another demanding application, ran successfully as long as the amount of background tasks was minimal. Still, rendering my scripts took almost five times longer than with the E1705 (Vista). "Skyping" with the integrated 1.3-megapixel webcam was lag-free, and performing tasks such as DVD playback, office applications, and opening ten tabs in the Firefox browser all went smoothly. The system has a 120GB hard drive, whereas the Toshiba Satellite A135-S4467 gives you 160GB of storage. Acer systems are known to have SPDIF or a line-out port, so you can connect external speakers to offset the crappy, built-in ones.'
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