The hard drive is small, with the similarly priced Compaq Presario CQ60-615dx providing 250GB of storage space. The amount of memory is mildly surprising-we would have guessed only 2GB, given the price. It also features 3GB of RAM (we would have guessed only 2GB), a 160GB hard drive, and integrated ATI Radeon HD 3200 graphics. The Acer Aspire AS5532-5535 also serves up basic specs, with a single-core AMD Athlon 64 QL-62 processor clocked at 1.6GHz.
On a positive note, the Aspire AS5532 has Wireless-N Wi-Fi many budget laptops, including the Compaq Presario CQ60-615DX, skate by with just 802.11b/g. The majority of laptops, including those that cost only a few hundred dollars more and are still firmly rooted in the budget class, have three or more USB ports, an eSATA port, and an HDMI port. You'll also find a multiformat media card reader along the front edge. The Acer Aspire AS5532-5535 provides a pair of USB 2.0 ports and a VGA port. Lastly, the laptop features a most spartan collection of ports and connections.Ī laptop with more basic collection of ports and connections you will not find.
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We were also not impressed by the amount of preinstalled bloatware you find trial offers and shortcuts for Acer Games, eBay, Netflix, and offers to protect your new laptop from both McAfee and Norton. Also, don't be fooled by the round cutout in the middle of the bezel above the display it's not a Webcam but apparently a placeholder should this chassis be used for a higher-end laptop. Acer squeezes in a number pad to the right of the keyboard, but in doing so, it shortens the keys along the left edge of the keyboard, namely the Tab, Caps Lock, and left Shift keys. They are light and flimsy and offer too much travel. The keys feel squishy, for lack of a better word.
Upon closer inspection, however, the laptop begins to show a few warts. The mouse buttons, too, are large and they don't suffer from the dreaded "clackiness" that often plagues low-end laptops. The touch pad is roomy and features a wide vertical scroll region along its right edge. Two wide, sturdy hinges hold the screen firmly in place. The lid is a dark, glossy blue, and the keyboard deck is a gun-metal blue. From its outward appearance, the Acer Aspire AS5542-5535 doesn't immediately reveal its budget status.
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