Acer Aspire 5940G

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Technical specifications

Operating System

Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium

Processor & Chipset

Intel® Core™ i7 processor with up to 6 MB L2 Cache, supporting Intel® 64 architecture

Mobile Intel® PM55 Express Chipset

Memory

Dual-channel DDR3 SDRAM support,

Standard 4 GB memory using two soDIMM modules, upgradeable to 8 GB

HDD

500 GB or larger SATA hard disc drive

Storage

4X Blu-ray Disc™/DVD SuperMulti double-layer drive

Multi-in-1 card reader, supporting Secure Digital™ (SD), MultiMediaCard (MMC), MultiMediaCard Plus (MMCplus™), Memory Stick® (MS), Memory Stick PRO™ (MS PRO), xD-Picture Card™ (xD)

Display

15.6" HD 1366 x 768 pixel resolution, high-brightness (220-nit) Acer CineCrystal™ LED-backlit TFT LCD, supporting simultaneous multi-window viewing via Acer GridVista™

Edge to Edge Frameless design

16:9 aspect ratio

8 ms response time

60% color gamut

Graphics

ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 4650 with up to 2816* MB of HyperMemory™ (1024 MB of dedicated DDR3 VRAM, up to 1792 MB of shared system memory), supporting Unified Video Decoder (UVD), OpenEXR High Dynamic-Range (HDR) technology, Shader Model 4.1, Microsoft® DirectX® 10.1 (* depending on size of system memory)

Dual independent display support

MPEG-2/DVD decoding

WMV9 (VC-1) decoding

HDMI™ (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) with HDCP (High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection) support

Acer Arcade™ Deluxe featuring Acer CinemaVision™ and Acer ClearVision™ technologies

Multimedia

Dolby®-optimized surround sound system with two built-in stereo speakers and Acer Tuba CineBass booster supporting low-frequency effects

Optimized 3rd Generation Dolby Home Theater® audio enhancement, featuring Dolby® Digital Live, Dolby® Pro Logic® IIx, Dolby® Headphone, Dolby® Natural Bass, Dolby® Sound Space Expander, Dolby® Inverse Filtering, Dolby® High Frequency Enhancer technologies

True5.1-channel surround sound output

Digital TV-tuner supporting DVB-T (Digital Video Broadcasting-Terrestrial) standard (6 to 8 MHz)

High-definition audio support

S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) support for digital speakers

MS-Sound compatible

Acer PureZone technology with two built-in stereo microphones featuring beam forming, echo cancellation, and noise suppression technologies

Communication

Acer Video Conference, featuring:

• Integrated Acer Crystal Eye high-def webcam, featuring 1280 x 800 @ 30 fps resolution image capture, supporting enhanced Acer PrimaLite™ technology

• Acer Video Conference Manager software, featuring Video Quality Enhancement (VQE) technology with H.264 video compression, supporting 640 x 480 resolution online video calls with drag-and-drop Picture-in-Picture (PIP) interactivity

• Acer PureZone technology

Intel® Wireless WiFi Link 5100 802.11a/b/g/Draft-N Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™ network connection, featuring MIMO technology, supporting Acer SignalUp™ with Nplify™ wireless technology

Gigabit Ethernet; Wake-on-LAN ready

Bluetooth® 2.1+EDR (Enhanced Data Rate)

(manufacturing option)

I/O Interface

1x ExpressCard™/54 slot

1x Multi-in-1 card reader (SD™, MMC, MMCplus™, MS, MS PRO, xD)

3x USB 2.0 ports

1x eSATA port shared with 1x USB port

1x HDMI™ port with HDCP support

1x Consumer infrared (CIR) port

1x external display (VGA) port

1 x RF-in jack

1x Headphones/speaker/line-out jack with S/PDIF support

1x Microphone-in jack

1x Line-in jack

1x Modem (RJ-11) port

1x Ethernet (RJ-45) port

1x DC-in jack for AC adapter

The smaller brother to the Acer Aspire 8940, but from one extreme to the other and the horribly low resolution LCD is here again (as in the ASUS below)

This is ATI powered, but with the low res screen the GPU will be bored most of the time.

A good choice for those needing CPU power not showing of Movies or Graphics.