Acer AS55165474 / AS5516-5474 / AS5516-5474 15.6 Notebook PC

by Acer

Product Details

• Item Weight: 3 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
• ASIN: B002A6JYUE
• Item model number: AS5516-5474
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,059 in Computers & Accessories (See Top 100 in Computers & Accessories)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 20, 2009

Product Description

Windows Vista Home Basic.

AMD Athlon Processor TF-20 (512KB L2 cache, 1.60GHz).

2GB DDR2 667 SDRAM.

160GB hard drive.

Integrated Super Multi drive.

15.6" WXGA (1366 x 768) TFT display.

ATI Radeon Xpress 1200 with up to 1919MB Shared Video Memory

SuperMulti DVDR/RW Drive with Double Layer

802.11b/g WLAN, 10/100 LAN.

Multi-in-1 Card Reader SD, MMC, RS-MMC, MS, MS Pro, xD

Ports: 2 x USB 2.0 Ports, Headphone, Microphone, VGA, RJ-45

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great value for the features, August 7, 2009

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J. Jessup (Stratford, CT USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Acer AS55165474 / AS5516-5474 / AS5516-5474 15.6 Notebook PC (Personal Computers)

I bought this item for my cousin, who wanted an inexpensive laptop with a wireless network adapter to connect to the Internet from anywhere in his home. I set up the Vista operating system for him, and took a good look at the laptop's features in the process. There's a lot of plastic in the construction, so it's not the most durable design compared to more pricey laptops, but overall it's a fair tradeoff for the price paid.
I would certainly recommend this item to anyone looking for a decent quality laptop with all the essential bells and whistles, and a Great price at $329 shipped. The 15.6" screen is quite nice, more of a rectangular format than square, but still roomy for displaying multiple windows. With a 1 year warranty from Acer, it was money well spent. I even thought of keeping it for myself after taking it out of the box and viewing it for the first time, and I'm a very discerning computer technician! If the price is still the same, BUY IT, just don't drop it, and use an external keyboard when you can because the laptop's keyboard is very light to the touch and may not be what your fingers are used to. 4 stars for the bang for the buck and the features package...

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nice little machine, July 29, 2009

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opanto39 "opanto39" (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Acer AS55165474 / AS5516-5474 / AS5516-5474 15.6 Notebook PC (Personal Computers)

Nippy enough machine, decent full size keyboard & screen, very usable touchpad unlike so many out there. Paid $300 at Micro Center (store pickup only). For what it's worth it's WEI base score is 3.0 (Processor 3.4, MOPS 4.8, Graphics (both) 3.0, Hard Disk 5.4. Well recommended unless you want small or light.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent budget laptop, September 17, 2009

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C. luong - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Acer AS55165474 / AS5516-5474 / AS5516-5474 15.6 Notebook PC (Personal Computers)

I bought this laptop at an excellent price. For the money, this is a great laptop for those who need to surf webs, microsoft word/excel, movies, burn CD/DVD, etc. Only negative is that it came with Vista and lots of extra softwares I dont need. This laptop came with 1 stick of 2GB of memory, and I bought an extra 2GB (for only $25) and installed it. With extra memory, it performs alot faster with Vista and I was able to do more multi-taskings. If you dont like Vista, XP can be installed on this. For the price you cant beat it.