Acer Aspire 9410
Product: Acer Aspire 9410
Type: Notebook
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For its price, the Acer Aspire 9410 laptop launched in May is pretty solid. However, according to a review of the 17-incher by BIOS Magazine, it lacks several key features that are now pretty much standard in desktop replacement notebooks.
Among the “missing” specs include FireWire or DVI ports, a memory card reader (which is a real surprise since most Acer notebooks this size ship with one), and a built-in webcam (which quite a number of new(er) Acer notebooks come with). In addition, BIOS contends that for its weight and size, we should be looking at better multimedia features or at the very least, a better graphics card.
With all that said, the 9410 still gets a strong rating of 7 out of 10, plus a reasonably favourable conclusion of: “For the price, the Aspire 9410 meets the criteria for a performance machine. An Intel Core Duo Processor and 1GB of RAM is enough to handle several tasks at the same time, such as running an anti-virus suite, creating a PDF file, and transcoding a video file – which primarily burdens the processor – but power users or those looking for more jazz should probably look elsewhere.”
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PC Advisor comes in with the second review of the 17″ Acer Aspire 9410, but unlike BIOS Magazine’s review, it’s not in-depth enough and it numerically rates the 9410 a little to high for my taste.
With a feature rating of 8 out of 10, and a value for money rating of 10 out of 10, it seems a bit weird that they concluded so lukewarm-ly: “It’s big, but not so big as to be cumbersome. Well-designed and easy to use, the Acer has great features and a good screen. It’s just a pity about the graphics.”
IMHO, the lack of a more powerful graphics card and robust multimedia features should have impacted its “value for money” rating just a bit, don’t you think so?
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Acer has launched 4 new 17-inch notebooks to extend its Acer Aspire line. Two of them will be powered by the higher end Pentium M and Core Duo processors, while the other two will be equipped with only Celeron M chips.
The higher-end notebooks are the Aspire 9400 and 9410, equipped with Pentium M and Core Duo processors, respectively. Both come with Nvidia GeForce Go 7300 graphics cards, and up to 120GB of hard disk storage. The lower-end notebooks are the Aspire 7100 and 7110, equipped with Celeron M chips and Acer’s own wireless card (instead of the standard Intel-made Wi-Fi cards).
Information on pricing and availability has yet to be released.
[News via Reg Hardware]
