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REVIEWS

Acer Aspire 5 A515-54-51DJ: Slim

and inexpensive, but middling

quad-core performance

We’ve seen faster quad-core laptops, but not for this price. BY BEN PATTERSON

f you’re looking for an inexpensive all-day battery life will appeal to productivity-
quad-core laptop that’s less than three- minded road warriors, although they’ll have

quarters of an inch thick, the Acer Aspire to settle for a display that’s on the dim side.
I 5 A515-54-51DJ might fit the bill. This
slim laptop packs in more than enough power PRICE AND SPECIFICATIONS

for everyday computing tasks, and its quad- Acer packs a bewildering number of
core performance is respectable, if shy of configurations into its budget Aspire 5

awe-inspiring. A fingerprint reader and nearly line—at least 22 by my count, ranging from

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