Acer Aspire AS5740G-6979: Budget Priced but Great Gaming
In recent years, Acer has been doing an admirable job of condensing respectable hardware into affordable machines. Each successive generation, Acer has usually had one or two solid notebooks that were able to squeeze a decent gaming GPU into a reasonable price tag, and with the Aspire 5740-6979, that trend continues. Today we're able to take a look at a machine that features Intel's still relatively young Core i5 paired with – and this is the particularly compelling part – AMD's new mobile DirectX 11-class hardware.
So just how good of a bargain is the latest Aspire 5740G? If you're after a budget-priced gaming laptop, you'll be hard pressed to beat it. The Mobility HD 5650 is the mobile equivalent of the desktop HD 5570, with slightly lower clocks on the core and memory. We weren't particularly impressed with the desktop offering, but moving to the laptop world and running at 1366x768 makes the GPU far more attractive. For under $800, the Aspire 5740G is able to run every game we tested at medium or higher detail settings, which is more than we can say for the competition.
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