The specs are nothing to write home about, but pricing is obviously the driving factor. The Gateway NV5933u manages to pack in an impressive set of features for a list price of $550, including a Blu-ray combo drive (a $75 value). The Acer 5542 isn't the best example of an inexpensive AMD Athlon II M300 laptop, with a current price of $500 online. That makes the Gateway a clear value winner if you want Blu-ray support, but it's worth noting that you can often find similar M300 + 4GB laptops on sale for as little as $400. However, right now going off the retail pricing, we've essentially got a tie for pricing. That said, you won't find a non-Blu-ray i3-330M laptop for less than $550, and we wouldn't be surprised to see the NV5933u supply dry up shortly; the replacement NV59c looks to bump up the price to $749. Let's take a closer look at the two combatants before we get to the benchmarks.You can check out the results over here.
Compared: Intel vs AMD based laptop
Posted on Monday, June 21 2010 @ 1:40 CEST by Thomas De MaesschalckAnandTech has published a comparison of the AMD-based Acer Aspire 5542 and Intel-based Gateway NV5933u. The processor, chipset, memory type and graphics card are all different, but otherwise the site has done its best to make this an apples-to-apples match up.
