The Masters of the Universe have gladly given me access to a beauty of a gaming machine. Now I know what your saying…..Acer? Normally, I would agree with you, Acer has probably had the worst build quality of Laptops for years, prone to overheating and pieces of its case falling off. I would normally recommend you to buy a Dell or a Toshiba rather than parting with your cash on an Acer.
| Update: Laptop now available to buy online in the UK |  |
But things have changed over the last few months; Acer has been producing masterful pieces of technology. My attention directed to the Acer Aspire 8930, when I saw its keyboard light up with an ominous blue glow.
Let’s take a quick whiz at the looks of the laptop, it’s got a massive 18.4″ LCD Screen giving a euphoric 16:9 Aspect ratio to view your Blu-ray discs on and as well as a HD TV Tuner Output to give a Full HD Experience.
Other features that the Laptop boasts is a built in 1MP web camera, which I found astoundingly of high quality. The Laptop also houses built in Bluetooth.
As for performance, it’s unparallel! Compared to a Dell XPS M1730, I found it to play the most demanding computer games of today, such as FarCry 2, Red Alert 3 and even Mirrors Edge, which kind of made me a bit of a rubble at the pit of my stomach and gave me a new fear of vertigo was brought to life with powerful NVidia GeForce 512mb 9700M GT. It houses a mighty Intel Core 2 Duo T9400 / 2.53 GHz Processor and gives an ample 4GB of Ram so you can play your game with efficiency.
As for space, I found it a bit lacking, only 320GB on its hard-drive, I would have preferred to see at least 500GB of space for this caliber of laptop.
However saying that, the Laptop is pretty much a success. Although it hasn’t healed Acer’s wounds just yet, it has began to mend the fabric of consumers trusting the Acer brand. This is a recommended buy for laptop shoppers!
The Laptop is available to purchase worldwide, for more info visit: Acer or buy from Amazon UK.
Review In A Nutshell
Rating (/5):
Reviewer: Atif Kazi
Date: 2009-01-30
Summary: Very powerful laptop ideal for gaming. Recommended purchase if you have a big budget.
Description: I know what your saying…..Acer? Normally I wouldn’t recommend one, but in recent times they seemed to have turned a corner. And this 8930 is a great bit of kit well worth anyones money. Although it may not have healed Acer’s wounds yet, it has began to mend the fabric of consumers trusting the brand.
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February 18th, 2009 at 6:02 am
How much this Laptop?
February 18th, 2009 at 11:03 am
In the UK it is about £1200-£1400. And $2,900 – $3,600 in the US. Not sure about other regions.
March 19th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
HI,
Thanks for the helpful details.
I loved this laptop!
It cost about $ 1600 in Syria!
June 25th, 2009 at 7:43 am
i have acer aspire 8930G with core 2 duo t6400 4gb ddr3 and yeah 500gb hard drive..hd screen cannot go wrong with this pc i love it nice media center something other pc dont have nice sound on 6 speakers..blue light all over this pc.i dont have a blu ray im not crazy about it but for the price of 1k im lucky.i tell you this is one of the coolest notebook i have.im keeping mine
June 25th, 2009 at 9:12 am
Nice one Malvin,
I got a new laptop , it’s Acer Aspire 6935.
Intel Core 2 Duo processor T6400 (2.0 Ghz,800 Mhz FSB, 2 MB L2 Cache.
The Graphic card is amazing GeForce 9600M GS TurboCach – 512MB up to 1791 MB.
I didn’t face ant problem with new games!
GTA 4 is running very well.
Also, most of new games.
I’m working on PhotoShop CS4 – Flash and 3D Max…
it shows great performance!
I like it performance and quality and also the exterior design of this laptop.
July 18th, 2009 at 10:13 am
I own aspire 8930g with 2,53 Ghz Cpu, 9700M GT512gb ddr3 GeForce, 4gb DDR3 ram, and lap top would be great just one huge problem with it. I own it already 9 months, and i have big overheating problem. My grafic card getting very very hot after 10 minuts of playing Eve Online, and after a while with just click my lap top turn off. I trying to fix this problem, but is impossible ccose this lap top have only 1 fan for cpu and grafic card. Shameful, i paid this piece 1800 euros.
February 5th, 2010 at 4:16 pm
Article updated with slightly different layout and a link to buy as the price has came down quite a bit in the UK!
February 16th, 2010 at 11:36 pm
For all the people who have the overheating problem. Open the main panel and take out the fan. it’s in there with 3 screws
you should find a lot of dust inbetween the fan and the heatpipe. clean it and put it back. my laptop went from 110°C to 64°C while playing gta 4
i hope this can help you guys out