Acer Aspire 1300 review

Acer Aspire 1300 review

Looking for an inexpensive laptop that caters to your southpaw? You might appreciate the

fact that the Acer Aspire 1300 has no right-side connections whatsoever. Lefties will enjoy

having the fixed DVD-RW drive, FireWire port, and two PC Card slots on the left side of the

laptop. All the other connections are on the rear.



 



The Aspire 1300 is not the best candidate for frequent travel. It's a thick and heavy laptop

that measures almost 2 inches tall and weighs 7.7 pounds (9.5 pounds including the power

adapter). However, it's a handsome black and silver unit with a good touchpad-equipped

keyboard, including a four-way scroll and four application shortcut buttons. Memory and

storage are upgradable - you don't even need a screwdriver to remove the hard drive, which

sits behind the battery.

We haven't evaluated any other 1.8-GHz Mobile Athlon 64 1300+ processor-equipped laptops,

but the Aspire 1300 held its own in our speed tests. The 1300 earned a WorldBench 5 score of

75, placing it 2 points lower than a laptop equipped with a 1.8-GHz Pentium M 745 CPU. The

battery, a long, impressive-looking power pack that forms the front of the laptop, lasted

2.5 hours, a little less time than average.

Acer's Aspire Arcade application, a Microsoft Media Center-like interface that features a

simple CD player application and shortcuts to DVD burning and video editing applications,

adds some multimedia panache to the 1300. Unfortunately, the notebook has weak stereo

speakers and lacks dedicated music- or DVD-playing buttons. You even have to adjust the

volume with keystroke combinations.

We have two other complaints about the design. The audio ports and all four of the 1300's

USB 2.0 ports are on the back of the case, making it a hassle to plug in a flash memory

drive or a pair of headphones. Also, the Wi-Fi switch on our test unit was seated so far in

the case that it was hard to activate at times.

Acer provides just one print manual, which covers both the 1300 and another Aspire model.

Fortunately, it's not difficult to find the information you need about the 1300.

Lefties looking for a budget-price desktop replacement could be happy with this unit, but

its bulk makes it unsuitable for travel.



Acer Aspire 1300battery 



WorldBench 5 score of 75



Mobile AMD Sempron™ processor 3000+(1.8 GHz)



SiSM760GX Chipset



Wireless LAN IEEE 802.11b/g



256MB DDR-RAM (Max 2GB)



60GB HDD, Weight 2.8kg.



DVD/CD-RW Combo drive



56K Fax/Modem, 10/100Mbps LAN



15.4” WXGA Acer CrystalBrite TFT LCD(1280x800 pixel)



Integrated 3D AGP graphics with up to 64 MB

battery for aspire 1300



Li-Ion Battery (Avg 3.0 hrs. battery life)



Acer SignalUp wireless technology support

Lithium Ion laptop battery for ACER aspire 1300 series notebook battery compatible with P/N: ACER BTA0302001, HP CGR-B1870AE, HP F4486-60001, HP F4486B,hp f4486a

other battery for hp F4486a