That's about 5 Mbps below the category average. Using an Atheros AR5B97 802.11 Wi-Fi radio, the Aspire 5742 saw throughput of 27.9 Mbps when we were 15 feet away from our access point. That runtime is nearly 50 minutes less than the mainstream average (3:56) and the HP G62t (4:03) and about two and a half hours less than the Samsung SF510 (5:40). As a point of comparison, the mainstream averages are 82 and 29 fps, respectively.Ĭlick to enlargeFor a system with integrated graphics, the Aspire 5742's endurance of 3 hours and 11 minutes on the LAPTOP Battery Test (web surfing via Wi-Fi) was lacking. Regardless, in World of Warcraft, the 5742 eked out just 19 frames per second on the recommended settings-fair, in this case-and dropped to just 9 fps when we maxed effects out. Its score of 1,752 on 3DMark06 is about half the category average (3,496), but still comfortably above the G62t (1,377) and the Samsung SF510 (1,398). The integrated Intel GMA HD GPU is nothing to write home about. That's about 2MBps faster than the average, about 1MBps faster than the Samsung, but well behind the G62T (31.8 MBps), which has a 7,200-rpm hard drive. The 320GB, 5,400-rpm hard drive duplicated a 5GB folder of multimedia in 3 minutes and 13 seconds, a rate of 26.4 MBps. The Acer took 1:48 and the Samsung took 1:51.
#ACER ASPIRE 5742 DRIVERS 1080P#
Both the Acer 5742 and the SF510 were pretty equally matched when we converted a 5-minute 1080p file to iPod touch format using Cyberlink MediaShow Espresso. That's 8 seconds faster than the mainstream average and bests the SF510 and the G62t. It took just 54 seconds to transcode a 114MB MPEG4 to AVI using Oxelon Media Encoder. The Aspire 5742 also fared well with more demanding tasks. We were able to surf the web, listen to music, and watch movies without any lag. That's about 475 points above the category average, but about even with the HP G62t (5,306), and 200 points below the Samsung SF510 (5,563), which has a 2.4-GHz Intel Core i3-370M and 4GB of RAM. The 2.53-GHz Intel Core i3-380M processor and 4GB of RAM powered the Aspire 5742 to a score of 5,327 in PCMark Vantage. When we had the pixel count that high, we could make out the finer details in our face and color tones were very accurate, but any movement-even a slow hand wave-was blurred. The 5742's 1.3-MP webcam records video at resolutions up to 1280 x 1024.
An SD Card reader is conveniently located on the left front lip, and a DVD Supermulti drive is on the right side. Click to enlargeYou won't find anything extravagant on this budget system: Just three USB 2.0 ports, HDMI, VGA, Ethernet, and headphone and mic jacks.
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