Acer AS5560-Sb613 Review

I have had this Acer AS5560-Sb613 laptop for a week now and I can't say enough great thing about it. I have a desktop pc that is sporting a Phenom x6 and is overclocked to around 3.8 Ghz and this Acer AS5560-Sb613 laptop keeps up with my destop with no problem. I am a graphic designer and use Photoshop and Corel Draw along with a few other 3D modeling applications and am pleasantly surprised at this laptop's ability to open and manipulate complex graphics with ease.

I have a program called CPUID that monitors the individual CPU frequencies and temperatures. The specs from AMD for the CPU say that it overclocks a single core to 2.4 Ghz on high demand, but I have found that is actually will overclock as many as 2 cores to 2.4 Ghz under heavy loads and then immediately will downclock to 900 Mhz to save battery life and reduce core temperatures. It does it all without missing a beat!! The graphics are very snappy and robust.

I'm also amazed at the battery life. I get around 3 to 4 hours off my battery, but you need to condition your battery by fully charging it and running it completely down till it powers down completely. Do this 3 times and your battery will be conditioned very well and have a great life cycle. I always make sure to charge the battery to 100% then unplug it till it runs out.