Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Acer Aspire M5 review: the affordable all-purpose ultrabook

Gallery Photo: Acer M5 555 300 1020 etc

Battlefield 3 on an power-sipping ultrabook? They said it couldn't be done. In March, however, Acer and Nvidia proved them wrong. Behind closed doors at the 2012 Game Developer's Conference, the sleek black 15.6-inch Acer Aspire Timeline Ultra M3 ran the demanding game, thanks to a brand-new Nvidia GeForce GT 640M graphics chip with more bang per watt than anything else we'd seen. Unfortunately for the world, most every other part of that laptop was sorely lacking in quality, and the Timeline M3 was shelved.


That is, until Acer decided to turn that machine into the best bang-for-the-buck laptop on the market. The new Acer Aspire M5 starts at just $629.99 in the US for a solid set of ultrabook specs inside a much-improved chassis, and...


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via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2012/12/4/3725832/acer-aspire-m5-481pt-481tg-review-touchscreen-nvidia-graphics

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