Wrapped in Acer's new magnesium alloy "profile" chassis, the TravelMate 5720 can be equipped with a solid selection of Intel Centrino Duo mobile processors and enough comfort to make your mobile computing a little more pleasant.
The TravelMate 5720 has the following characteristics:
-- Intel Core 2 Duo T7300 2.0GHz
-- 15.4 "WXGA LCD
-- 1 GB of RAM DDR2 533MHz
-- Integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100
-- 100GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive
-- 8X DVD + / - double layer burner
-- 53-watt-hour battery cells 6
-- 802.11 a / b / g WLAN
-- XP Professional, SP2
-- Ports / connectors: 1 IEEE 1394 (FireWire), 4 Universal Serial Bus (USB 2.0), 5-in-1 memory card reader; VGA monitor output port, S-Video, RJ-45 Ethernet LAN, RJ - 11 modem PC card slot; ExpressCard 54mm; DVI-D; headphone / speaker jack, microphone, Bluetooth
In case you did not know, the TravelMate east side of the range Acer laptops. In judging by its design and software business, it seems to be a poor man IBM Thinkpad, but more on that later.
On a more positive note, the main construction is solid. It is made of magnesium alloy. The 5720 also comes with the so-called technology DASP (Disk Anti-Shock Protection) which is a damper rubber in the hard disk.
Now, for a 2.0 GHz processor modern and 5400 rpm hard drive for better performance of Acer. However, again, there is something to build Acer quality does not always translate to high quality. It takes about two minutes to finish with the start of these processes running: Norton Anti-virus, Photoshop Elements 3.0 (the process quick start), Open Office, Quickstarter, a calendar widget and the company Acer widget ( Learn more about the Acer widget later). Regarding the tasks, it is normally snappy. It is only, at most, one of two to three seconds between the beginning of programs that are really intensive. Photoshop Elements takes only 15 seconds or less in charge. Of course, if you have only 1 GB of memory, it would be enough with Windows XP.
