Acer Aspire 5553G

The Acer Aspire 5553G is a slim laptop for people who need a fair amount of portable computing power. It has a large hard drive by laptop standards, a fast video chipset, and 15 inch display. It comes with a high-definition camera and and microphone built in for teleconferencing, and can connect to most wireless networks and wired network standards.

Four USB ports, a VGA port and a multimedia card slot keep it versatile, able to handle most demands a laptop owner could want.

The processor is a 2GHz AMD Phenom II N930 quad-core, which uses 2MB of cache to process as quickly as possible. It is backed up by 4GB of memory and a 250GB SATA hard drive. Video is handled by an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250, and displays in 1366x768 resolution. The optical drive can write to both CD and DVD.