AMD officially introduce the 7th generation APU codenamed Bristol Ridge. Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) is the term AMD computer processors that combine CPU cores and graphics processor or GPU in one package.
Not long after its release, the same month, Bristol Ridge sold under the official name of the series APU processor A10, A12, and FX 9800 series of products entering Indonesia through the prime form of laptop Acer Aspire E5-553G.
It consists of three variants which are distinguished from the configuration of the processor, RAM, and storage media, Acer designed the Aspire E5-553G as a laptop that can handle a variety of things, good business productivity such as editing photos and video to play 3D games.
What kind of ability? Consider the following Tekno blogosmile review.
Design
Aspire E5-553G is a laptop with a 15.6-inch landscape display. Because of the size was quite large and weighs more than 2 kg.
The back of the screen and palmrest coated metal of aluminum with a dark gray color and texture of thin lines that reinforces the impression of "metal".
Large size led to this laptop has plenty of space to accommodate a full-size keyboard, complete with numeric pad to type numbers on the left side.
Just below the keyboard is a touchpad with a surface relief that feels a bit loud when pressed (to click on the interface of the OS).
Acer also embed a DVD multi-drive for both reads and writes pieces of DVD. This one feature start rarely found in laptops are smaller.
Outside the DVD drive, a series of connectors provided by Aspire E5-553G are complete. On the left side, right next to the exhaust cooling system, there is a USB Type-C connector latest, ethernet (RJ-45), VGA, HDMI, and two USB 3.0.
Turning to the right side, on the same section with a DVD drive, there is a USB 2.0 port and a 3.5 mm audio jack connector, a connector adapter to supply power.
On the front side, adjacent to the USB 3.0 port is provided SD card reader. Wireless connections supported by the Wi-Fi standard that supports 802.11a / b / g / n / ac, plus Bluetooth 4.1.
2800 mAh battery pack at the bottom of the laptop layered plastic material. These batteries are installed with screws.
Performance
Aspire Laptop KompasTekno E5-553G received the highest variant, the AMD FX-9800P processor (quad-core 2.7 GHz, GPU Radeon R7), DDR4 RAM 8 GB dual-channel and 1 terabyte hard disk plus a 128 GB SSD.
Detailed specifications of the laptop called Aspire E5-553G-F79R which cost Rp 9 million of this was coupled with a dedicated graphics card Radeon R8 M445 DX with video RAM of 2 GB (dual GPU graphics with on-board).
On the laptop already installed Windows 10. It should be added that the retail version E5-553G not equipped with the Microsoft operating system.
Additional thanks to the SSD storage media is not owned two other variants, E5-553G-F79R capable of loading a variety of applications quickly. Booting Windows even faster than other laptops capital only hard disk.
Its performance was arguably qualified enough for everyday use and light gaming, as can be seen in a series of benchmark scores below.
To test the battery life, blogosmileTekno running a Full-HD video (1920 x 1080) that in-loop continuously.
As a result, this laptop can burn for nearly three hours, exactly 2 hours 56 minutes, before the system is shut down due to running out of battery power.
E5-553G screen size is large enough for a laptop. However, because the resolution is only 1360 x 768, the screen is less than ideal for watching movies full HD.
The quality of the screen display panel that was less than satisfactory because the colors look faded and slightly limited viewing angle.
Conclusion
Acer Aspire E5-553G
Through E5-553G Aspire, Acer is trying to bring AMD APU-based laptop products 7th generation are able to work and play.
Special variants of the highest full name Aspire E5-553G-F79R, performance is quite fast because it is assisted by a 128 GB SSD as a storage program, while the data is stored in conventional hard disk with a capacity of 1 TB.
Aspire form of relatively large E5-553G make it less cumbersome to carry around, but still not too large (such as gaming laptops with screens 17 inches).
The size gives a distinct advantage, namely the availability of a complete range of connectors, including USB Type-C latest started many products included in the laptop.
However, its performance is quite reliable for everyday work or play 3D games that are not too heavy.
The screen size is not supported Aspire E5-553G high resolution anyway, but it still belongs reasonable for its price class.
Acer Aspire E5-553G-F79R
Advantages
+ Dual-channel DDR4 RAM 8 GB
+ Complete connector options
+ SSD 128 GB and 1 TB hard drive
Deficiency:
- The screen quality is less satisfactory
- Less practical to carry around
Specification
Type Aspire E5-553G-F79R
The screen size is 15.6 inch (1366 x 768)
Dimensions 381.6 x 259 x 23.9 / 30.2 mm
The weight of 2.23 kg
processor 9800P AMD FX, quad-core 2.7 GHz, GPU Radeon R7
RAM 8 GB DDR4 , dual-channel
Media Storage 128 GB SSD + HDD 1 TB
graphics card AMD Radeon M445DX R8 (2 GB VRAM)
Optical drive Super-Multi DVD (read / write)
battery Litihium-ion , 6-cell, 2800 mAh
connection wireless Wi-Fi 802.11 a / b / g / n / ac, Bluetooth 4.1
connector, HDMI VGA, ethernet (RJ-45), USB 3.0 (2 pieces), USB Type-C, USB 2.0
operating system Linux