Comments on: A second user review of the Aspire 5920

By: WoWundead

WoWundead — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 10:06:49 +0000

im thinking of buying a new acer 5920 im thinking what games it will play like world of warcraft and crisis

By: Rhov23

Rhov23 — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 13:13:22 +0000

I’m using my new 5920 at work with the 1280×800 res, and when I get home I connect my 19″ screen and use whatever resolution I want.

By: Iain

Iain — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 11:05:36 +0000

Paul – I like a nice, high screen res. On a 4:3 monitor, I usually use 1600×1200. That said, that’s using 19″ or 21″ monitors.

I use enough applications at the same time to generally have my start bar at triple normal height and on auto-hide. Using a higher res allows me to have multiple windows opened but not maximised so I can see what’s going on in several apps/windows at the same time.

Obviously the 5920 can’t take such a high res, and there’s noticeably a lot less “real estate”. I’m getting used to this now – and it just means that I alt-tab more often. Having a widescreen as opposed to a 4:3 screen does help me lay a couple of windows next to each other though (or, depending on the apps above and below each other).

Whilst it would have been nice to have a higher resolution, it hasn’t stopped me from doing anything. If I was editing in Photoshop or working with CAD files for any length of time then I’d need a higher res, but apart from that I can’t think of a situation that would absolutely demand it.

By: Jing

Jing — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 10:05:23 +0000

Well, with the Acer Stock drivers in 3Dmark06, I got a score of 3188. I can bet this is much higher with the modded drivers I am using now.

15.4 inch is plenty, but the resolution may be disappointing.

Physically, the width of the screen matches that of a 17″ desktop TFT screen (not including bezel), but is about 5/6 the height of the 17″ desktop. Transitioning initially makes you feel like the Acer screen is cramped vertically, but you soon adjust.

Also, games on TFT are best played at their Native resolution. If the screen resolution was 1440×900, this may look better in Windows, but result in a lower frame rate in games. Thus, the solution is to lower the resolution to perhaps 1024×768 get better frame rates.

However, as you noticed, lowering the resolution means that the game is not being played in the native resolution of 1440×900 anymore, thus it appears stretched across more physical pixels.

However, if you require more desktop screen real estate, for heavy spreadsheet use, or photo editing, the screen for the Acer 5920 will not be adequate on a daily basis, you will find it too cramped. For me, a few word documents, powerpoint presentations, some spreadsheets and a little photo editing mean the screen is fine for me.

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:02:15 +0000

Hi guys,

If you can put some benchmark results here up aswell that would be great.
I am considering buying one too..

How is the display? would you guys prefer a 17inch or is the 15.4 doing a great job as well?

Also is the res 1280*800 enough??

Bye

Paul

By: Iain

Iain — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 10:59:53 +0000

I’ll be taking a look at the new BIOS this evening. I’ve also already replaced the stock graphics drivers.

This evening I will also (finally!) get some pics taken and sent over to Michael.

By: Sewje

Sewje — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:40:59 +0000

I’ve had my 5920 since release date in UK, and it still suprises me how fast this laptop is for the price its going for.

I’ve just upgraded my desktop to a Quad Core 2 Duo and while the frame rates of this laptop is obviously slower, the overall load times in Vista totally thrash my desktop, even tho my desktop is running XP.
As much as I hate Vista, its working very nice for me so can’t really complain.

Don’t forget to get the latest BIOS update that just came out recently. it fixes some important things, like full ROBSON/TurboMemory support which boosts overall Vista performance.