5/17/2023 0 Comments Acer aspire 5100 review![]() ![]() The extra memory, in fact, probably gives the Acer a bigger advantage than the quad-core chip itself. ![]() But on tests that take advantage of multiple processing cores, such as Photoshop, or where memory comes into play, like iTunes, the Acer's advantage is clear. That result makes sense, given the eMachines Athlon chip is just barely faster at 2.21GHz to the Acer's 2.19GHz Phenom. The only test on which the eMachines won was our single-core Cinebench test, which is almost purely tied to the clock speed of an individual CPU core. The quad-core Aspire M5100's achieved almost total victory over the dual-core eMachines T5246. What is clear, as you can see from our benchmark results, is that the Acer has a definite speed advantage. The eMachines has only a standard analog video output, but since neither of these systems is what we'd call "living room friendly." We don't find the eMachines' lack of an HDMI port a significant disadvantage. We should add that the Acer has an HDMI port, making it possible for you to haul this desktop into your living room to play standard-definition video on your HDTV. Taken together with the quad-core CPU and the extra RAM and the Aspire M5100 starts to look a bit rosier, provided its overall performance comes out ahead. Neither of those advantages justifies an extra $250 in our minds. ![]() Aside from the CPU and the memory, the only features the Acer has over the more affordable eMachines are an extra 100GB of hard drive storage and 128MB more RAM available to the Acer's onboard graphics chip.
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