Acer Aspire 5253: Under the body
The Acer Aspire 5253 that we reviewed is equipped with an AMD E-Series APU (Accelerated Processing Unit) and the Vision Engine AMD that allow the display of high definition video even in streaming. The AMD Zacate E-series APU are based on the FT1 socket and have low power consumption (TDP 18W). The AS5253 is equipped specifically with an E-350, a dual-core with an operating frequency of 1.6 GHz, 2x512KB L2 Cache which integrates an AMD HD 6310 GPU with 80 SP, 8 TU, 4 ROPs, an operating frequency of 500MHz and 256MB of RAM. Despite the Zacate and Ontario APU are only the first concept of AMD Fusion APU, these platforms perform very well, especially from the point of view of energy saving; in fact, the notebook provides a range of 5 hours.
For more on Brazos AMD's APU, we refer to Article recently posted on our website:
Removing the cover on the underside of the notebook, the hard drive, the wireless card and the RAM are accessible. The collocation of these three elements in an easily accessible will be much appreciated by those users who want to make changes to their notebook.
The Aspire 5253 arrived in our office has 4GB of DDR3 RAM divided into two modules of 2GB each, and their operating frequency is 1066MHz, while latencies are 7-7-7-20.
The hard drive is a 500GB Western Digital Scorpio Blue with a good speed/power saving ratio.
From the bottom you can also remove the 6-cell battery that provides a longer duration than the average all thanks to the entire system low power consumption.
