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Acer Aspire 8920G

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Monday September 08, 2008

Written by Sasha Muller

Tags: Acer | Aspire | 8920G

$2965

Price at time of review.

If it’s a Blu-ray equipped desktop replacement you’re after, the 8920G is a fine choice.

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Acer’s 8920G impressed us in our preview and now we’ve laid our hands on a retail unit.

Memory has increased from 3GB to 4GB, but as a gigabyte is lost to 32-bit memory addressing, performance is very similar: 1.25 versus the pre-production model’s 1.26.

Battery life is unremarkable – the Asus idled for more than three hours and managed 1hr 37mins under heavy usage – but it’s not bad for such a huge laptop. Gaming performance is similarly modest; the Nvidia GeForce 9500M GS averaged 12fps in Crysis at 1280 x 1024 and Medium settings.

Cutting edge gaming at the 18.4in display’s native resolution of 1920 x 1080 is out of the question, but if it’s a Blu-ray equipped desktop replacement you’re after, the 8920G is a fine choice.

This article appeared in the August, 2008 issue of PC Authority.

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