Acer Aspire 5253: The external of the PC
Externally, the Acer laptop is very elegant and with fairly small size. The body, entirely of black plastic, has in the upper part a very simple texture, but that makes it very aggressive; in the central part there is also the chromed Acer word. The same top side texture is also visible at first opening of the PC. Externally there are three USB 2.0 ports, one HDMI, one VGA, one Ethernet LAN 802 11b/g/n, two jacks to connect headphones (or speakers) and microphone, and finally the power connector. Space is also reserved for a DVD-Super Multi DL optical drive and the 2-in-1 SD and MMC card reader.
The keyboard is extended, since there is also the numeric keypad. The display used is a 1366 x 768 pixels 15.6-inch, backlit with LED lights. The monitor colors are quite bright, while the contrast and depth of black are not as good. However, the screen is quite visible from different angles.
Just above the keyboard there is the speaker grid; the latter is capable of reproducing sounds at high volume without major distortions compared to PCs in the same price range. Overall the sound quality was good.
Along the frame of the monitor, at the top, there is an 1.3 megapixel webcam able to record video with a resolution of 1280x1024. Again, the quality of the camera was very good and slightly higher than notebook/netbook in the same price range.
