The Intel Core i7 processor – with its hyperthreading and overclocking capabilities – lays waste to most tasks, with applications running smoothly and quickly, even concurrently, thanks to the 6GB of memory included. Those after no compromise performance for running resource heavy applications will find much to like here.
A very powerful ATi Mobility Radeon HD 5850 graphics card has been employed, giving this machine the sort of power normally associated with gaming rigs from the likes of Alienware, letting you get your game on when you're finished working. To give an idea of the performance on offer here, we had little trouble running the infamous Crysis with settings pretty high.
Acer Aspire 8942G: The screen
A Blu-ray drive is present but there's no writing capabilities for burning to the format. Nevertheless Blu-ray films look fantastic on the enormous screen which – at 18.4-inches – you could land a 747 on. Although pictures are good rather than being excellent, but is full HD. A capacious 640GB hard drive is incredibly generous, and leaves plenty of space for you're your photo, music and movie libraries.
The size of the screen ensures a massive chassis, and also a large, comfortable keyboard. A dedicated number pad is included – for the serious number crunchers – and there's also a touch activated media control centre for conveniently changing track or volume of your music, for example high quality ACER laptop battery.
Acer Aspire 8942G: Connections
The Acer provides a huge choice of connections, with HDMI, eSATA, Firewire, USB and DisplayPort all represented. This gives you great freedom when hooking up to external monitors, hard drives and peripherals, such as your smartphone.
Portability isn't the best here, and the 4.6kg chassis and 205 minute battery life means this is essentially a desktop replacement notebook. While this won't suit everyone, those simply after power, multimedia and a great screen, withouth breaking the bank won't do much better than this.
Ferrari may not be doing too well in the F1 stakes, but Acer has joined the team and announced its first Ferrari branded netbook, the Acer Ferrari One.
Acer Ferrari One hands-on review
Dressed in its Italian best and joining its older, and bigger brother the Acer Ferrari 1200 this netbook isn't just a premium car tie-in. With an AMD Athlon X2 L310 1.2GHz CPU and 2GB of memory, along with an 11-inch screen and graphics courtesy of an ATI Radeon HD 3200 GPU it's far from a non-starter. It also comes with 250GB hard drive, multi format memory card reader, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and 3G.
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