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I am really excited to write to write one of the first ever user review for the Acer 4540 14 inch Windows 7 Laptop. Well I got this Laptop about 2 weeks ago and have been using it since. The configuration I own has an AMD Athlon II M300 processor that clocks at 2 Ghz and I am assuming that this is probably the lowest end configuration of this Laptop. For some reason the Acer USA webpage does not have this Laptop listed in the products link. While searching for a Laptop, Initially, I was actually eying the Acer Aspire 5542-1462 which has got almost similar features just that its 15.6 inch. When I went down to the store and saw the Laptop I found it to be too large to carry around. That's when I changed my options to a 14 inch laptop. I am a big admirer of AMD processors and almost every computer of mine at home has an AMD processor. Just as I touched upon the fact I might just mention "no AMD processors do not have a heating problem". I am not sure on the US but in India the moment you happen to evaluate the idea of purchasing an AMD based system, the storekeeper tries to quote "this" standard statement and evade the interested buyer away to purchasing an Intel. No personal grudges against Intel, it's also perfectly good processor just that AMD also happens to be good. The good thing about buying an AMD based system is that it comes with either an Nvidia or ATI (now AMD chipset).
Well coming back to this laptop, it's based on the AMD M880G chipset. It's got an ATI Radeon Mobility Radeon HD 4200 on board graphics with 256 MB shared memory. There is an HDMI port with HDCP feature. The acer page states that the ATI graphic card also claims to has some video decoding capability like MPEG-2 DVD, WMV9/VC-1 (Windows® Media Video 9, VC-1 standard), H.264/AVC decoding. Need to verify this sometime, and if ture, is a good feature add on.
On the audio front this laptop seems to be real great. It's got a Realtek HD sound card. The icing on the cake is the Optimized third-generation Dolby® Home Theater audio enhancement which makes movie watching experience very pleasurable. I have tried some DVD's (one which had 5.1 sound Dolby Digital) and experienced a great surround effect. It seems to convert the 5.1 channel sound of the DVD and encode it to a Dolby Headphone like thing which enables experiencing 5.1 sound through an ordinary pair of headphone/ earphone. I tried several movies with this features on and off and believe me the experience is almost close to tha of a real home theatre. Probably would rate the experience as 70% of what you could get out of a high end Home Theatre system. But again this is quite something to ask for as it comes virtually free with this laptop. Some documentation on this feature can be found at [...]
Other must have features the laptop has got is a muti card reader Webcam (really very clear it is crystal eye indeed). Some features that could have been there would have been a Blue Tooth and a Blu Ray disk. The battery seems to last for 2 hours+ withdecnt lelev of computing. For those who are more CPU power frenzy I would suggest to go for a Turion II based configuration of this Laptop. (Which I am assuming would be there as with the Acer 5542). Windows 7 runs real smooth on this one. I tried the VM Ware Player and run an Open Suse 11 along with several applications. The performance of the gues OS(Suse 11) was great and even the remaining programs did not take a hit. The RAM usage shot up to 2.6 GB with several applications including the VM Player running Open Suse 11.
Overall a great Laptop for basic processing and multimedia activities. For an Audiphile the Dolby Home Theatre v3 would be an eye Candy. One piece of advice to those looking out for this laptop, please assess your usage of the Laptop and then make a conscious decision. In my case I just thought that I got a very high end laptop from say an era of 6 months ago for a very good price and I am sure this one should serve all my computing needs for 2-3 years after which an upgrade is inevitable so why spend a bomb.
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