Acer Aspire Ethos 5951G : Big Screen Complete with Durability

Acer Aspire Ethos 5951G - Notebooks with large screens always attract our attention, regardless of the terms of dimensions and weight, which certainly can not be avoided and makes it less friendly to carry around. Notebooks with large screens, besides being very comfortable to use, usually carries a complete completeness. Notebook as it is present in the Acer Aspire 5951G Ethos who recently came to the table our testing. This notebook carrying a screen of 15.6 "! In addition, the notebook is also equipped with high specification! What about performance? Check out our review below.

Acer Aspire 5951G Ethos casing has an attractive design. This notebook has a finish casing that is melted in a black color with a pattern across the surface of the aluminum cover and the LCD screen is also part handrest.

Acer Aspire 5951G Ethos really caught our attention because of the completeness given very comprehensive. Call it a port located on the left and right, the trackpad is removable and can also function as a remote multimedia, and high specification. Reviews on the subject you can find in the "Completed".

Ethos Acer Aspire 5951G Notebook Intel Core i7 2630QM Sandy Bridge (four processors, 8 threads) running at a speed of 2GHz. Processors have been equipped with a Turbo Boost. In addition, this notebook has also been equipped with DDR3 SODIMM 4GB memory you can upgrade when needed. Hard disk capacity of 750 GB which is given, relatively high current. With a capacity for it of course you can freely store various data and multimedia files. Optical drives that are supplied to rotate pieces and burn Blu-ray DVDs, but unfortunately the screen is given does not support the full resolution HD1080.

As mentioned earlier, Ethos Acer Aspire 5951G has a screen with a size of 15.6 ". The screen has a resolution that you can set it up to 1366 × 768. This notebook screen using a glossy finish that little disturbing because it reflects the shadows around you when used outdoors.

Acer entrust this to NVIDIA notebook graphics to give a maximum in the running of multimedia files and play 3D games. NVIDIA GeForce GT540M installed in this notebook is considered sufficient to be able to run many 3D games with good resolution at the top to the middle pretty well. The results of our testing for this graphics card later on you can see graphics dipada part test that we present. NVIDIA Graphics installed Optimus has been supporting technology, so the graphics on an Intel processor can still be used to conserve battery power and run QuickSync to perform fast video encoding.

The dimensions of the Acer Aspire 5951G Ethos can be said to be larger and have thicker dimensions. We prefer to call this notebook as a desktop replacment that any time you can take it when needed. We prefer to put the notebook is always at the table instead of a desktop computer and enjoy 3D multimedia or playing at leisure.

Completeness of the port given by the Acer Aspire 5951G Ethos is very comprehensive. On the left and right, you'll get a variety of ports ranging from USB3.0, USB2.0, eSATA combo, FireWire, and so forth. With such completeness, it seems you can connect a variety of equipment for your gadgets without fear no ports are required. At bottom right, this notebook provides a card reader handy finger to secure your notebook from the finger that is not cool.

Batteries that provided you can not escape, it seems intended to keep this Acer notebook has a dimension that is not too large. Then switch on bagia orange top function for what? Such switches are useful for deciding an electric current to the battery. Indeed, the function is not really necessary because if the battery is in a state of full, then the electric current charging current is automatically disconnected. Such switches are useful when you damage a battery that requires you to stop the flow of electricity into the battery.

Chicklet keyboard design with keys, finger print reader on the bottom right, and a detachable trackpad.

The keyboard is used on the Acer Aspire 5951G Ethos is very ergonomic. The keyboard uses a model chicklet keys are quite comfortable because it feels soft when pressed. Noteb0ok uses the screen of 15.6 "then the type of keyboard that is used has a full keyboard with fixed types include numlock button on the right. Minimal room light does not matter anymore if you memggunakan this notebook for work because keyborad equipped with a backlit display that you can turn it on if need be, just by simply pressing the button on the top right of the notebook. You can see in the image below when the backlit keyboard is turned on.

Backlit keyboard.

Acer Aspire 5951G Ethos intended for multimedia classroom. It can be seen from the completeness of a given, like the touchpad which can also display multimedia menu and qualified speakers. The speakers on this notebook, according to our hearing, quite satisfying when you used to play games or watch Full HD movies. Dolby Home Theater speakers located above the keyboard and comes with an AUB-woofer which can give the bass sound if not always able to shake your room. However, the results of votes cast is enough to make you feel like a mini-theater room.

Shortcut keys: Power Management, Multimedia, and the backlit keyboard on / off. Speakers that support Dolby Home Theater.

One thing that is interesting from Ethos Acer Aspire 5951G notebook is the touchpad. Section can be removed simply by sliding a switch on the front and the touchpad will be lifted. This touchpad can later serve as a touchpad as usual and when you press the button on it then the device will issue the application menu to access the media provided by Acer. This remote will work fine as long as the distance from the notebook touchpad not more than 1 meter.

The battery used by the Acer Aspire 5951G Ethos is at 5400mAh and can turn on this notebook up to 449 minutes or the equivalent of 7 hours 29 minutes. The results make us thumbs up, considering the specs and the big screen, which carried by this notebook. With these results you need not alarmed when the battery runs out of road.

We wanted to test the ability of DX11 in the graphics card included. Therefore, we began a benchmark by using the game Lost Planet and Unigine Heaven. We also weighed on NVIDIA GT540M with Tessellation feature. Featured Tessellation is a deadly weapon for the graphics card because these features will make 3D images more prominent. Featured will be draining the GPU and CPU.

When playing game Lost planet, you can still adjust the setting of this game at native resolution with DX11 futures low. In the benchmark systetis Unigine Heaven, you can see the results obtained by setting the high reached only 13.7 FPS in the benchmark setting normal.

In the game Left4Dead, a combination between the CPU and GPU makes this game runs very smoothly at native resolution and high settings. It makes us begin by setting 8x MSAA. It turned out that the results obtained are still very comfortable to play because the FPS rate is above 30fps. Resident Evil 5 game also can run smoothly at native resolution on high settings with 8xMSAA future life, still comfortable FPS gained in the eyes because the FPS is the lowest at 34.1 pouring.

In this racing game looks like you have to give up playing in DX9 because when you force running in DX11 then the picture will not reach 30fps and will result in broken images. You can play this game in DX9 on medium native resolution. Why not on High settings? Ultra high settings and will trigger a run on DX11 graphics.

Conclusion

If you plan to replace the wasteful power desktop computer with a notebook but you want a notebook that has a high performance and completeness mumpunyai more, then the Acer Aspire 5951G Ethos into pihan right. This notebook has a large screen with an ergonomic keyboard and has a port fittings complete with an optical drive that can play Blu-ray. The speakers are also given quite qualified to give a sensation like a mini home theater.

With a trackpad which can be remote, it will make your vacation days to be more complete, you do not need to move from the comfort of your couch to select multimedia content full HD1080P. You're tired of watching, this notebook can also be comforting for you to play 3D games well enough. If you need to bring this notebook for mobile is not a problem because the battery life given very good for a notebook screen size 15 ". According to the news that we can, notebook Acer Aspire 5951G Ethos has a price of USD1500. Expensive or not, only you can answer it when it was tried.

Excess

High endurance life for notebooks with screen size 15 ".
Auto-switching Intel graphics with NVIDIA Optimus.
Given port is complete.
Quality speakers above the average (for the size of the notebook).
Trackpad that functions as a multimedia remote (wireless).
Backlit keyboard.
Optical Blu-Ray.
Remote Trackpad for multi media.

Shortage

Heavy adapter.
Full screen resolution not use HD1080P.