Well, I got a new computer. And for the first time in the last five years it’s a desktop PC. I haven’t used desktops so long that I’ve almost forgot how loud they are. Though Acer Aspire M1641 definitely not the loudest one, the monotonous low pitch noise coming from the power supply unit is quite annoying.
Computer is built on the modern and powerful Intel Pentium Dual Core E5200 2.5GHz processor and nVidia GeForce 9500GS 256Mb GPU which is just as powerful as GeForce 8600GT 256Mb that was in my previous laptop. 9500GS eats around 512Mb of the system’s 2Gb RAM so I think I need to add two more gigabytes of RAM to make it run smoother.
160Gb HDD from Western Digital is very fast but noisy. You needn’t see its LED indicator to say if there some read/write operations ongoing. The built-in card reader, on the other hand, is surprisingly slow. With its 800 kilobytes per second read speed any five bucks 100 in 1 USB card reader will work at least five times better.
There is a handy gadget shelf on top of the Acer M1641 case with two USB 2.0 ports and headphones/mic sockets – very nice idea.
