The Acer Aspire 5920-6954 just slips under the brand $ 1000, $ 999 (2/7/08), it is worth every penny. Except for enterprise applications, which it lacks, Vista Home Premium laptop has everything that home-office buyers could ask one solid budget notebook.

The notebook looks different without being too flashy. It has a black and cream color case reported by blue accents, including a large, easy-to-press triangle-shaped shortcut key in the corner of the keyboard as a high-tech sapphire (Acer, therefore, so - called “gem” designation).

At 7.3 pounds, the Aspire 5920-6954 is the heaviest budget laptop, we looked at, but she has a hard disk of 250 GB and a fairly beautiful 15.4-inch screen (it is a little too Reflection). Although it lacks a little Bluetooth, the 5920-6954 is the highest definition ready to unity, including both an HDMI port and an HD DVD player. It has a subwoofer for better than average and a good practice volume wheel. The keyboard has fantastic charges shortcut buttons that do everything but take the trash. A set on the left side of the keyboard, launching applications. A second, right on the Line of Control multimedia, including a snapshot button which allows you to play music and movies without launching Windows. A button placed between the mouse buttons to scroll through documents in all four directions.

Finally, it is the only sub-$ 1000 laptop that we examined that have devoted a graphics chip - an nVidia GeForce 8600M GS with 256 MB of memory. Thus, it was the only powerful enough to play 3D games properly in our tests, such as Doom 3 and Far Cry. Its frames per second rate are not the highest, we recorded for a laptop, but are more than enough for smooth, glitch-game.

With a 1.66-GHz Core 2 Duo T5450 and 2 GB of memory, the Aspire 5920-6954 won a solid WorldBench 6 Beta 2 score of 70, the second best on the budget portable chart. The score is five points higher than the Group average of 65 years, and this is better than the average of 70 earned by the 16 recently tested all-purpose notebooks in any price range. The battery life is average, lasting 3.8 hours.

The cost of enquiries will Acer Aspire 5920-6954 spill significantly more than $ 1000, but if you can afford to dive a little, it brings a little more panache to your home office.