Acer Aspire 1825PTZ Packard Bell Tablet Laptop
After barely be awarded the Packard Bell EasyNote Butterfly Touch our coveted Recommended Award, we are now looking at the Acer Aspire 1825PTZ, a convertible 11.6in tablet laptop in the same mold. And when we say in the same mold we mean that literally as Packard Bell [PB] is essentially a subsidiary of Acer, the Butterfly Touch 1825PTZ and could be separated at birth.
However, while the same genes, these two machines are not quite identical twins. Apart from a number of relatively minor cosmetic differences, Acer has opted for a mixture of several components, a powerful processor, but a smaller hard drive and less memory, and the addition of 100 pounds at the starting price in the process.
So, instead of 1.2 GHz dual-core of the Butterfly Touch Intel Celeron processor, the 1825PTZ a 1.3 GHz dual-core Intel Pentium SU4100 at its heart, it is up to 20 percent faster in our test. In real world use, but the only thing we can imagine that this CPU can handle that SU2300 can not [for the average consumer] would 1080p video that was released to the video card anyway with the use of compatible playback software for Windows 7 are more demanding. Yet it is far from us to complain about a faster CPU!
Acer has compromised by providing only 3GB of RAM, which seems a bit stingy when 4GB is pretty much the minimum standard these days-at least on a £ 600 prize. It is even stranger given that the company chose to go with the 64-bit version of Windows 7 Home Premium for 1825PTZ, while the Butterfly Touch 4GB still sported came with a 32-bit OS. This must be sure the other way?
A 250GB hard drive is also on the small side, but other specifications remain the same as the Butterfly Touch, including the Intel GMA 4500 integrated graphics, Wireless-N Wi-Fi, and the lack of Bluetooth. Connectivity is also identical, consisting of three USB ports, VGA and HDMI video outputs, microphone and headphone jacks, Gigabit Ethernet and multi format card reader.Visually the piano black lid 1825PTZ is fairly unobtrusive, and we prefer to bet on the chrome Butterfly Touch. Both are equally sensitive to fingerprints and dust, but a common complaint these days among laptops.
It is the interior, where we will see what real design differentiation. Especially the screen bezel is mostly matte and texture rather than shiny, with only a narrow strip of shiny right around the edge of the screen. We’re certainly in favor of the more rugged finish, because it means a lot fewer fingerprints than the Butterfly Touch when using the laptop in tablet mode.
On the other hand, we definitely prefer the softer Packard Bell, textured palm rests to the hard, smooth plastic ones found here. On balance, however, we would say Acer wins Something in the department, though there is really little.[via trustedreviews]
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