Notebook Reviews

Desktop replacement notebook does not always come with large sized screen and Acer Aspire 5536 notebook has made a difference with 15.6 inch screen size to cover that specific area. It has appropriate dimension that appeals business travellers and it comes with proportional features when compared with other notebook models. This computer notebook is priced around £500 and has three main impressive features that put Acer Aspire 5536 on tract to compete with other branded notebooks. This notebook laptop is highlighted for its high storage facility with appealing widescreen panel and long battery life with different power saving modes. Performance wise, this notebook has to be analysed to see whether it meets the expectation for business travellers. Acer Aspire 5536 is available with various configuration.

Design:

Acer Aspire 5536 15.6″ Widescreen notebook weighs around 2.7 kg along with light weight chassis that is subtle in nature and has well built structure for customer line orientation and basic travel use. The quality of the chassis and lid is excellent and entire portion of the notebook is made with durable plastic material. The lid presence is the highlight of this desktop notebook and it comes with glossy blue design and silver plastic that is fully textured. It seems that the total aesthetics appeared to be a sophisticated media notebook. This high glossy lid is vulnerable to scratches and fingerprints and the heat generated by the computer is kept cool with large fan placed at the rear end.

Keypad in Aspire 5536:

This notebook PC has user friendly keypads with large keyboard area and has unusual design. There is enough space between the keys and gives firm keystrokes with raised keys from the bay. Due to large space between the keys, dirt could easily get accumulated. The keys showcase a stylish look and firmly built on the bay, which delivers good performance for high typing speed with no noise.

Acer Aspire 5536 Laptop  notebook has a wide touchpad and more practical working with intuitive interface applications. With suitable gesture controls you can actively zoom photos by simply tapping your fingers on the pad. It is bad to see that this large pad has single click mouse button, which has less usage. It is not practical enough to be applied for interface and has awkward usability when you happen to specifically click particular area of the button to register.

Screen:

This computer notebook has 15.6 inch screen size with 16:9 aspect ratio, which is truly amazing to see such a high screen feature on lesser price range notebook. This prominent aspect ratio with wide screen facility would enable you to have control over multiple documents side by side and watch movies with suitable resolution. The brightness and contrast level are par with quality and showup bold colour with correct tone.

Bountiful Storage and media support:

This Aspire 5536 15.6 inch notebook laptop has 500GB of storage space, which is considered to be an enormous space to store lot of videos, music, photos and complex documents. This comprehensive space storage could be segregated with suitable drive system to specify equal space for all your important applications. You can comfortably save all your important files in CD and DVDs with the help of dual layer DVD re-writer. This desktop notebook gives excellent support for various flash card formats such as SD, MMC, MS, MS PRO, XD through integrated 5-in-1 media card reader. It has four USB port connections.

Internal Components:

This Aspire 5536 AMD notebook PC shows some little drawback when it comes to performance side and with dual core AMD processor the achievable speed is fair. This slight difference in performance is well compromised with 3GB of RAM. Multiple applications and documents can be comfortably handled with this performance. It is fair enough for office usage but not up to the mark when compared to Toshiba notebooks, which show remarkable performance for daily office usage.

Basic video and photo editing is well supported by ample power supplied by 256MB ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics card, which also smoothly delivers high definition videos on wide screen. This more capable graphic support is par with quality and type of usage but cannot be compared with other brands of notebook such as Samsung and MSI, which has excellent graphic support. You can play moderate type games and watch videos without any hassle and this notebook is well suitable for office usage.

Warranty:

This desktop notebook carries one Year International traveller warranty.

Verdict:

Acer Aspire 5536 laptop notebook is highly recognisable machine, which is built to deliver the action what it is intended for without any fuzz. Though some drawback pulls this notebook PC from gaining more popularity it is honestly made to add value for your money. There are lot of aspects in this machine, which pulls the crowd in the market with great usability and impressive style without any fault. If you are looking for lower price range desktop replacement notebook then this is definitely your choice.

Acer Aspire 5536 15.6″ Notebook Computer – Technical Specification Table

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