Keypad.
Weight,
Looks,
Memory.
One look at the Aspire 2920 had us thinking cheap, tacky and plasticy. However, once you use the notebook, you realise the simple plastic beige bezel is misleading—it’s clearly a cost cutting move rather than a cheap tactic to rake in bigger profit percentages on sales. The notebook has this tacky looking cover, and a cheap looking (but not so) inner bezel. What annoyed us is the large footprint (for a 12.1-inch notebook) courtesy a larger, rounded body. It’s heavier than your average 12.1-inch too, at 2.04 kg. It’s for this reason that the Aspire 2920 finds itself in this category rather than the ‘ultra compact’ category, which is more suited to notebooks bearing similar screen sizes. The keypad is surprisingly good, and very usable.
The configuration is fine for a regular notebook for the home or office—a 1.83 GHz Core 2 Duo, 2 GB of RAM, and a 160 GB HDD. Linux is the OS of choice, another cost cutting move. With such capers being cut, we expected the price to be really superb. At Rs 41,199, the Aspire 2920 isn’t exorbitant, but it’s much costlier than the Fujitsu S7211, which is a better notebook (albeit with 1 GB less memory). For this reason, as well as the quality of materials and finish on this product, we suggest you stay away from this.
One look at the Aspire 2920 had us thinking cheap, tacky and plasticy. However, once you use the notebook, you realise the simple plastic beige bezel is misleading—it’s clearly a...