Acer Aspire 5253-BZ480 15.6” Laptop AMD E350 1.60GHz 4GB RAM 320GB HDD Win 10 Acer Aspire 5253-BZ480 15.6” Laptop AMD E350 1.60GHz 4GB RAM 320GB HDD Win 10. Condition is Used. Shipped with FedEx Ground or FedEx Home Delivery. Laptop was used lightly and is. Mar 04, 2015 Acer Drivers Download: Utility automatically checks for more recent driver versions and identifies and installs missing drivers for unkn.
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After we already became familiar with the AMD-Fusion platform in a netbook , and in a subnotebook , it is now the turn of a normal 15.6 inch Notebook. Clad in a simplistic case, the Acer Aspire 5253-E352G32Mnkk is not something for show offs. But also not something for performance aficionados, since AMD Fusion with its processors from the generation Zacate (/E-240) or Ontario (/C-30) are aimed at the best mobility.The Fusion Netbook already made a good impression in this respect.
Just about nine hours of battery life (WLAN test) was possible with the best HD suitability. How does the 'big brother' (2 x 1.60 GHz) in the form of a 15.6 inch Notebook fair?Every 15.6 inch Notebook available on the market is HD suitable as standard. But when it comes to the battery life, Core 2 Duo, AMD Athlon, Pentium, and Core i3 fitted laptops hardly manage to stay on their feet for longer than two or three hours. If the Acer Aspire 5253 can manage to add another two hours to this, it certainly has a good battery life, which is one of a kind in the 400 Euro price class. Whether or not this is achieved can be discovered in our review. The case of the Aspire 5253 is suited for mobile use. Hands feel good on the matte and structured surface.
Fingerprints don't stand a chance. The only weak spot is the black reflective display frame, which is prone to scratching (see Webcam photo).The case is stable and gives a durable impression.
We were only able to bend the base unit marginally with both hands. The base of the keyboard does however give way with a little pressure on the left side. The lid could only be bent a small amount, but the rigid and the grippy surface give a stable impression. The grippy structure once again provides for good daily suitability, even without a Notebook bag.The hinges hold the display in place very well, without any teetering. They are rigid, and hence two hands are required to open the display. The hinges themselves are firmly attached to the rest of the chassis. The maximum opening angle for use on the lap is more than enough, and is about 160 degrees.
CommunicationWLAN in its fastest Draft-N standard is supported by the Atheros AR5B97 wireless card. This also contains the integrated Bluetooth-3.0 module. The Atheros AR8151 network adapter supports Gigabit Ethernet.AccessoriesRecovery media for Windows have to be burned by users using the Acer Recovery Manager. The desktop is not littered with pre-installed software or links (Acer GameZone, accessory shop, registration, updater).
The repeated reminders for Norton Internet Security and registration do get on the nerves after a while though.WarrantyThis is a 12 month pick up and return guarantee. The Acer Advantage Warranty Extension (3 years) costs about 90 Euros, which is unlikely to be worth while for a laptop at this price. It does however include an on-site service for the entire duration, which is not included in the standard package.
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KeyboardThe keys have a clear pressure point and a medium key travel. Depending on the position the end stop is however a little on the soft side (left and right), or firm (middle). The keys clearly give way on the left and right sides, which provides for a bouncy typing sensation.
The arrow keys are only half the size of normal letter keys, but at least separated by a small space from the shift key. This makes 'blind' operation easier.TouchpadThe mouse replacement is an Elan-Smart pad. Its surface is smooth and can be operated easily and accurately.
The touch-surface has markings for a vertical scroll bar.The keys give a relatively loud clicking sound, although this is quite muffled. The pressure point doesn't require much force, and gives good feedback. Altogether the pad is sensitive up to the edges and makes a good impression, although the button travel is too short and the buttons are too deep in a depression, for the perfect office touchpad.
The reflective display panel (type LP156WH2-TLEA) has a resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels. The pixel distribution comes very close to the native 16:9 aspect ratio. The LG Philips panel is weak in many respects, which is however unfortunately the standard in the office class.
This starts with the low contrast of 167:1. The glare type panel does improve the appearance of colors optically, but doesn't make an impact on the measurements.The office fan would wish for a matte display. For professionals the panel will already be unacceptable due to its limited color space representation. The extended sRGB color space is a far cry. We compared the panel to AdobeRGB (t) and sRGB (t), as well as the good consumer TFT on the (t).
PerformanceAcer has equipped its 15.6 inch Notebook with the dual core APU ( 2 x 1.6 GHz). This Accelerated Processing Unit with a TDP of 18 Watts contains an integrated graphics unit with DirectX-11 and UVD3 Video Decoder for decoding HD videos (MPEG-2, H.264, VC-1).
The APU E-350 uses the. With 80 shaders and the aforementioned UVD3 video processor the GPU races ahead of the current, and should be on a similar performance level as the.The CPU merely has an L2 cache of 1.024 KB.
The APU sits on the AMD A50M chipset, and is supported by 2.048 MBs of DDR3 RAM. For the best possible utilization of the 64-bit APU, 64-bit Windows 7 Home Premium is included. When it comes to the processor benchmarks we compared the (2 x 1.6 GHz) with Intels current Atom dual core processors, which can be found in the same price class and also target mobility. Parallel multitasking operations can be processed on two cores. In the multi-core benchmark Cinebench R10 32-bit the tested system achieves 1.957 points.
An Atom N550 achieved 1.463 points. N455/N450 only reach 840 and 938 points. The N550 is 30% slower on average. The cannot keep up in this case, it falls behind by 35 percent with 1.271 points in Cinebench R10 multi 32-bit.When it comes to single core processing in the Cinebench R10 single 64-bit benchmark, the E-350 only achieves 1.125 points. Compared to the faster clocking (2.584) or the (2.447), 1.6 GHz don't stand a chance. They do however against the, which just about manages to achieve 512 points.
The (not 64-bit test) manages to achieve 634 points (-66%) in the single core benchmark. The synthetic performance examples make the AMD E-350 look very good compared to the dual core Atom. What about the application performance? We used PCMark Vantage which tests all the components of the computer, including DDR3 RAM, the hard disk drive, and the HD 6310. 2.164 points is the result of our efforts. This may be more than the (1.438) and the (1.601), but significantly less than the (3.772). The latter of these can already be found in laptops for less than 400 Euros.The experienced application performance is unfortunately not always quick.
We encountered noticeable delays in some cases when tasks were running simultaneously. This became the most detrimental when the mouse cursor started freezing while the CPU utilization was high. Those that want performance should favor the or even more so the Core i3.HD-Video with CPU relief (battery operated)At least the integrated is perfectly suited for 1080p videos thanks to the UVD3 Video Decoder. The processor load doesn't even rise significantly during mobile use (20 - 60 percent). Other tasks can therefore be carried out without affecting the operation of the 5253. The following images show playback scenarios with 1080p and 720p content when battery operated.
This partially lies at only 20%. In the 3DMark2005 benchmark the tested system achieves 3.588 points. With this the only lies 12% behind the (Ion2) with 4.075 points. It does not even come close to dedicated entry level GPUs such as the (+55%) though.
The that is used in the Fusion Netbooks , shows itself to be 19% slower. For this result we used 3DMark2006 (1280 x 1024). The result: 1.987 points vs 1.710 points.Looking at the scores from 3DMark06 results in the following order of HD Netbooks and our Fusion Notebook: The (E-350) is on the same level with 1.982 points. The (, Ion2) beats both without difficulty (2.397). The AMD based (1.046) and the (1.155) fall behind. The smaller C-50 sister in the (1.448) also has to get to the back.For the sake of completeness we also completed the DirectX-11 benchmarks.
The performance score from 3DMark 11 lies at 277 points (NB550D: 188 points). Unigine Heaven finishes with 1.2 fps (NB550D: not completed).In short: On a small scale the 3D performance of our 15.6 inch Notebooks can keep up compared to the and the Nvidia Ion. Compared to entry level GPUs such as the (, 3.114 points) the Fusion doesn't stand a chance though.
The following three game tests remain without commentary since the low fps values show the meager gaming performance. System NoiseWhen it comes to system noise, Acer's 15.6 inch Notebook shows one of its better sides. When surfing, listening to music, or writing, the cooling fan turns very slowly, or even stops completely for a short time. We measured 32.1 dB(A) in idle (cooling fan on).
The rotational speed of the fan doesn't vary. The hard drive can be heard when reading and writing as a high pitched whizzing: 33.9 dB(A).Our gaming tests didn't bring the cooling system out of its stride: 32.9 dB(A).
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Only when the APU also has to process during the stress test (Furmark & Prime95) does the fan turn up to the maximum 33.7 dB(A). In this case the fan also turns at a constant rate. Altogether the cooling system makes a very good impression.
The Aspire 5253 never becomes noticeably loud. SpeakersInstead of the usual stereo speakers, there is only a single mono speaker under the finely punctured plastic surface on the left side of the keyboard. As with the Aspire 5742G with the same chassis, Acer has saved one speaker. Thus things come as they must. The mid-range and washed out sounding audio doesn't offer any differentiation or dimension. Most of the audio improvements in the audio settings (e.g.
Virtual surround) don't have any effect with the mono speaker.Since headphones will be obligatory due to the audio characteristics, we tested these as well as external speakers (YST-M20SDP) connected to the 3.5 mm headphone output. The audio coming out of the Notebook has practically no noise or distortion (listening, not measured). The last Fusion test device, the (11.6 inches, 7:22 hours WLAN test) has raised our expectations for the battery life of the. With its 4:47 hours (WLAN test), the Aspire 5253 can keep up quite well as a 15.6 inch Notebook. The relatively weak 48 Wh battery doesn't appear to be a limitation.
The test for the battery life while watching a DVD movie resulted in 3:25 hours. The next movie session can start when the 4.400 mAh battery is charged again after 1:33 hours (93 minutes, charge).The competition is left behind by the Aspire 5253 when it comes to the battery life. During the WLAN test the (P320, HD 4250: 175 min), (N830, HD 4250: 173 min), (P6100, 310M: 172 min), (P6100: 178 min), or the (370M, HD 545v: 115 min), only achieved significantly shorter run times. Verdict: The office competition lasts a maximum of three hours, while the Aspire 5253 manages just about five hours (WLAN test). The Acer Aspire 5253-E352G32Mnkk with AMD Fusion and APU E-350 is a Notebook with simple office performance and advantages when it comes to battery life. The at all times low power consumption of the whole platform of 10 up to a maximum of 30 Watts provides for a very good battery life in practice of a good two hours with CPU load, up to just under five hours when surfing via WLAN. These are considerable battery run times for a 400 Euro laptop.Alongside the meager power consumption is an at all times quiet cooling fan (load: 32.6 dB(A)), and a cool case.
The matte and insensitive surfaces (exception TFT frame) let the heart of every simpleton beat faster. If the display would be non-reflective, and the keyboard not so soft, we would have a very good office notebook in front of us.The few interfaces at least offer the standard HDMI and Bluetooth connections. Similarly to the display panel with a weak contrast - although good brightness - the disadvantages are typical of a device in the price class below 400 Euros.
The biggest weak spot is the system dependent poor performing dual core APU AMD E-350 (2 x 1.6 GHz). The result is a in many cases not smooth and quick application performance, which is only just faster than an Atom N550 system with Nvidia Ion (e.g. Asus Eee PC 1015PN: 1.823 points).Netbooks have shown in recent years that buyers are definitely prepared to make compromises when it comes to the speed of the system, as long as a high level of mobility makes this necessary. The Acer Aspire 5253 manages very good battery run times, but whether it is mobile with its glare type TFT remains questionable.It should be considered that the price class below 400 Euro already offers Pentium-P6100 15.6 inch Notebooks with noticeably more performance. These include the Asus X52F (from 329 Euros), or the Lenovo B560 (399 Euros).
The battery run times of these competitors are shorter, but not bad in some cases: The Lenovo B560 for example comes to just under three hours. ShortcutWhat we likeConstantly quiet cooling fan, matte surfaces, and a stable chassis.What we'd like to seeA matte TFT, and a better keyboard; that would be the perfect writing-book for Netbook opponents.What surprises usGood battery run times with a small 48 Watt-hour capacity. With a bigger battery several hours more would be possible.The competitionSimple office Notebooks without any extras.: Pentium, Core i3/i5;: similarly i3-CPU;: non-reflective but less well equipped;: stable and sober;: Consumer office with little performance;: Single-Core AMD;: Pentium from 330 Euros;: 370M;: matte 17 inch.Small multimedia machines with office ambitions:: matte 17 inch;: small HD 6370 graphics;: Optimal for 399 Euros.
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