ACER Aspire 5935G Review part 2

Well guys, this is my second part of the ACER Aspire review.

this is the acer power button i mentioned earlier, it enables you to switch off your graphics card and revert to the intel integrated graphics to conserve power.

we have another star from me, for this little piece of gadget. this acer holds a 2mp webcam. a 720p high definition webcam for chatting. its very suitable for video conferencing and taking pictures.

finger biometrics for extra security protection

acer have adapted this concept of giving the user and option for everything, shutting off screens, touchpad, and even graphics card. :)

running on a Intel Core 2 Duo Processor 2.4GHz and Nvidia GT130M

the connectivity corner, the bluetooth and wifi touch buttons

the awesome touch media controls on the right side of the laptop, what you are seeing here is the volume control!! :)

touch sensitive media controls

the awesome fine touch keyboard with back light, not sure if its able to handle hard tapping.

ACER Aspire 5935G

ACER as everyone knows, have been the No.1 Notebook builder in Malaysia. Well, their products still suffer from design and durability issues. The main problem goes to their keyboards, the keys on the Aspire versions are more fragile than the TravelMate versions. Okay... No I have in hand the latest ACER Aspire 5935G and the keyboard suffers the same problem. I think they still have not learn from their mistakes.

On to my review of the ACER Aspire 5935G. My laptop specs are as bellow,

Processor : Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz
Graphics : Nvidia GT130M 1GB DDR2 (build-in memory)
RAM : Kingston DDR3 1066MHz 4GB
Harddisk : 500GB Sata 2

Well, I guess this is all you guys have to know. So far, the design is not bad, but yet again, the keyboard is not for monster strength hands. We have a neat backlited keyboard, connectivity touch keys, media control touch keys, on/off for touch pad, on/off for HD LCD, and the amazing power saver button.

Power Saver

Firstly, I want to comment on the power saver button. Its absolutely amazing piece of idea by ACER. When the power saver is off, you can run your High Definition games on high and play your heart out. But when the power saver is on, the laptop switches to Intel Integrated Extreme Graphics. This is cool because, when you are doing office work on the go and you need power, you will be able to switch off your graphics card!! :D Take a look at the graphics specs with power saver on and off.

this is power saver on

this is power saver off

Sound and Navigation

ACER finally got a grasp on the plastic touch which is obviously more sensitive and touch friendly than the normal gloss kinds on the Aspire 3000 series. Well, Dell is still to catch up. We have the ACER MediaControl on the right hand side and the ACER connectivity on the left. the response on the touch keys are absolutely amazing. Very human touch friendly. :) One up from me!!

ACER also took multimedia and sound systems to the next level. Comparing to DELL, Compaq and HP, ACER uses Dolby Home Theater Virtual Surround Sound and the new and powerful ACER Tuba Subwoofer with Cinebass!! The sound just blows you away!! In Dell studios, I wonder why they call....it Studio when the sound does not even match a Nokia N95 sound system, sadly.....

Screen and Body

Next off to the screen, well, we have the 15.6" HD screen, with the frameless design.

• 16.7 million colours
• 16:9 aspect ratio
• 8 ms high-def response time
• 60% color gamut
• Frameless design

The body weight and dimensions is overall... not very heavy for the material used. The ACER Aspire 5935G is built with aluminum and plastic.

• 382 (W) x 274 (D) x 26/39.5.6 (H) mm (15.0 x 10.8 x 1.0/1.6 inches)
• 3.0 kg (6.6 lbs.) with 6-cell battery

I will be having more reviews coming up next. Stay tuned!! :D

SuddenAttack Emblem Designing Competition

Hey guys, I am designing this emblem for my squad in SA, if those of you played the game before, you should know what I am talking about. Haha!! Here is my first design. Give me some comments!! :)

HDR Photography and Photo Editing

Last month, I made a trip down to Melaka again.... yup! For Jon's assignment and well.... the food as well. I played around with my camera and took some some images. I managed to edit the pictures and made my very own gothic cemetry picture!! I also managed to play around with some HDR editing in Photoshop. Owh the wonder..... of...... Photoshop... :P Anyway, a quick brief on how the shots were made. Its simple, just get you own model, the right type of clothes and a cemetry, chinese or christan cemetry works best for this shot. Here are the original shots and the edited ones.

this is one of the pictures taken in camerons, the lipton tea plantation. Edited HDR

the taken image before it was edited in photoshop. and before the elements have been added

this is the image after the editing. can you spot the difference?? Haha!!

The Blog Neglection

Hello guys, I am back after taking one month of from blogging. Just to busy and hard to squeeze time in to blog. Well, finally... its the exam week again. One week to exams, no... I think its 2 days more!! 2 days of suffering and then 34 days of holiday!! I will do a quick recap on my intresting month of June right after my exam. Have a bunch of pictures to post up and loads of stories to tell. :) Gadgets to review many things are in Q.

This are the list of things that I have pushed out

- Canon 30D + Batt grip and CF Card

- Dell Inspiron 640M

well..... wait!! There is more to come after my exams!! Out and In... :P

As for now.. back to my studies. Computer Graphics and Design for User Interaction.... Two subjects.. but the are the killer for me! TTYL!! :D