0 Acer Aspire 6431-AS3830TG Review

AS3830TG-6431 is not intended for design snobs who crave a luxurious appearance and a thin, Series 9, and the MacBook Air, but it is also cheaply made. The lid and palm rest is wrapped in aluminum, a material ultraportable can not afford to leave out any moment. It is as solidly made as the series 9, the MacBook Air and Lenovo ThinkPad X1 ($ 1,399 direct, 3.5 stars), but do not expect from a laptop, which costs half as much. AS3830TG an error is to HeFT. 4.1 pounds, weighs almost a pound more than 3.2 pounds Toshiba Portege R835-P50X ($ 850 list, 4 stars), an ultraportable that integrates a DVD burner. At least AS3830TG compact size (12.6 9 0.75 inches, HWD), could alleviate this burden.

Acer Aspire 6431-AS3830TG

Acer Aspire 6431-AS3830TG

13.3-inch widescreen display is one of the few points AS3830TG-6431, with a lower rate is evident. And 'comparable to that found in R835-P50X: moderately bright, decent viewing angle, but nothing spectacular. Display 1366 x 768 resolution is the same boilerplate, but to be expected. If you can appreciate more the screen resolution, 13-inch Air (1440 900) and the Sony VAIO VPC-Z214GX (1600 900) it can provide. Acer did not think that the keyboard, using an average-size keys chiclet, which are expertly serve any typist. The only thing that stood out on the keyboard is a bit 'over the Enter key, which seems to take the key backslash. These contacts are X1 and P50X R835-are better designed, though. The mouse buttons are undersized, and smaller than I expected, although they were less resistant than a couple of Z214GX.

Features

AS3830TG would be a force to reckon, if you include an optical drive, but as the Air 13-inch and 9 series, omits one. But it is the other key features, including three USB ports (one of which is planted with USB 3.0), Ethernet, VGA and HDMI. Multi-format card slot is located on the front panel, and a 1.3 megapixel camera is positioned above the screen. 500 GB (5400 rpm) hard drive is not extraordinarily generous, because the R835-640 One with the P50X. Laptop also lacks the cutting edge of wireless technologies such as wireless video 2 (Widi 2.0) and WiMAX, which can be had with the P50X R835-X1 and the ThinkPad. On the other hand, the speaker system is a pleasant surprise, most ultraportables have a good place, but he was thoroughly engaging listen to music and watch video AS3830TG HD.

Acer Aspire 6431-AS3830TG

Acer Aspire 6431-AS3830TG

Performance

A standard voltage processor is another reason why AS3830TG is no exception. The 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5-2410M is the same in the R835-P50X and is consistent with the CPU Core i5-2520m ThinkPad X1. This is much faster than low-voltage processors in the air 13 inches and 9 Series, and attest to the performance tests. Cinebench score of 2.57 R11.5 AS3830TG and Photoshop CS5 time 4 minutes 20 seconds stunned that we have seen nine of the series (1.36 and 05:53) and Air 13-inch (1.1 and 10:50 ). Acer also maintains the P50X R835-X1 and in our test video encoding handbrake ThinkPad with a time of 1:55. While many of his colleagues was based on Intel graphics for tasks related to different AS3830TG by including a chip Nvidia GeForce 540M GT graphics. Its 3DMark 06 (9255) and Lost Planet 2 (38.9 fps) results are indicative of a gaming notebook laptop and threw past solutions integrated into the ThinkPad R835-P50X and X1.

Optimus Nvidia also operates switching technology, which had a huge impact on battery life.

Unlike the R835-P50X, the AS3830TG has a removable battery which is much larger than that used in a closed system of Acer. 68Wh battery is very similar to that found in the R835-P50X (66Wh), but the AS3830TG 8 hours 18 minutes is the time in our test summary MobileMark 2007 battery over his rival by more than an hour (07:01). Even with its low-voltage processors, Series 9 (06:04) and Air 13-inch (05:35) AS3830TG could not play in this area.

It 'been obsessed with recently, the effectiveness of the companies suffer from jacking up prices to build ultra-thin bodies as clients in the planning obsessed. Acer Aspire 6431-AS3830TG to ensure that its low price is the first thing customers see, and then drop them off their feet very quickly and the parts of a long battery life, even if its four pound frame is not an ideal ultraportable. Toshiba Portege R835-P50X is still an ultraportable to win, but little gem of Acer is not too far away.