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Acer Acer Aspire 5520G
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2 1948 06-30-2008
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Recommended By Average Price Average Rating
100% of reviewers $1,200.00 9.0
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Description: Processor:
Type: Mobile AMD Turion 64 X2
Model Procesor: TL-60
Frequency (MHz): 1900
Cache size (KB): 1024

Display & Video:
Display: WXGA CrystalBrite
LCD diagonal (inch): 15.4
Video chipset: NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS
Video memory type: Dedicated
Video memory size (MB): 512

HDD & RAM:
HDD capacity: 160 GB
HDD type: SATA 5400rpm
RAM (MB): 2048
RAM type: DDR2 667MHz

Multimedia:
DVD drive: Blu-Ray Disc Player,DVD-Reader/Writer
Audio: High Definition Audio
Card reader, webcam

Network:
Ethernet, Bluetooth, Wireless, Modem

Ports:

Headphones/mic
1 x RJ-45
1 x TV Out
1 x IEEE 1394
4 x USB 2.0
1 x RJ-11
1 x S/PDIF
1 x DVI-D

Battery:
Li-Ion 6 cells

Other:
Weight (Kg): 2.8
Size: (W x D x H mm): 360 x 267 x 43
Keywords: acer aspire 5520 5520g
/sbin/lspci output: 00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP67 Memory Controller (rev a2) 00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP67 ISA Bridge (rev a2) 00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP67 SMBus (rev a2) 00:01.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP67 Memory Controller (rev a2) 00:01.3 Co-processor: nVidia Corporation MCP67 Co-processor (rev a2) 00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP67 OHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a2) 00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP67 EHCI USB 2.0 Controller (rev a2) 00:04.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP67 OHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a2) 00:04.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP67 EHCI USB 2.0 Controller (rev a2) 00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP67 IDE Controller (rev a1) 00:07.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP67 High Definition Audio (rev a1) 00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP67 PCI Bridge (rev a2) 00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP67 AHCI Controller (rev a2) 00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation MCP67 Ethernet (rev a2) 00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP67 PCI Express Bridge (rev a2) 00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP67 PCI Express Bridge (rev a2) 00:0d.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP67 PCI Express Bridge (rev a2) 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control 01:04.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 05) 01:04.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22) 01:04.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 12) 01:04.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 12) 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8600M GS (rev a1) 05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)


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Old 04-29-2008, 10:41 AM   #1
Valkyrie_of_valhalla
 
Registered: Jan 2006
Distribution: Suse 12.0, Slackware 12.0, Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo
Posts: 274
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $1,700.00 | Rating: 9

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.24-16
Distribution: ubuntu 8.04



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Works quite well with 32bit distributions of Linux.<br><br>The only problem: the wireless driver is still experimental, and it doesn't work on 64 bit distros.<br>
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Old 06-30-2008, 06:17 PM   #2
magplumber
 
Registered: Jan 2008
Posts: 11
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $700.00 | Rating: 9

Kernel (uname -r): Linux 2.6.25.5-1.1-default x86_64
Distribution: openSUSE 11.0 (x86_64)


I have the acer aspire 5520-5912 but there really isn't much difference to what was published above. Over all the system is very good, but I could only get it to work under openSuse. I tried to use every linux distro under the sun without success. Under openSuse 10.3 I had problems with the sound, and wifi. The sound issue has been solved in openSuse 11, but the wifi is still iffi. I still had to use ndiswrapper with the xp64 drivers in order to make it work. Aside from these issues I'm loving my Acer and openSuse.
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