Well, when a Notebook is called a “Ferrari” for example the Acer Ferrari FR1100-5457 Notebook you are going to expect it to be screamingly fast. I guess they wouldn’t call a notebook the Acer Beetle – even though the Beetle may be a fine car, it just doesn’t give the impression of a top of the range notebook .

Also, this notebook is powered by an AMD processor, and in all the reviews and mentions I have made of desktop and notebook computers so far it may seem like I’m biased towards Pentium Dual Core processors. That would be a bit hypocritical on my part, as out of four Desktop computers of varying vintages at home, three have AMD processors, and only one has a Pentium processor. The one with a Pentium processor was bought second hand so I didn’t really have a choice of the processor. The others were bought because of the cost savings of buying a computer with an AMD processor instead of an Intel processor.

The Acer Ferrari notebook features a AMD Turion 64 X2 Mobile processor, which may not be as fast as an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, but other than that it will run Windows Vista just fine, especially with 4GB of RAM. With the 250GB hard drive and only weighing just over 4 pounds it makes for a pretty decent thin and light notebook.

Posted on January 26th, 2008 by mervyn