Acer's Aspire 5520 laptop looks suspiciously familiar

If you're checking out the new "Porsche designed" Acer Aspire 5520 and thinking it looks a little bit familiar -- take heart -- you've seen this guy before, when it was called the Gemstone. Apparently, Acer has axed the Gemstone's (AKA AS5920) Intel processor, dropped in an AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-58 (at 1.8GHz), and badged this baby up with a new number sequence. The system still rocks Vista (of course), features a 15.4-inch display, integrated NVIDIA GeForce 7000M graphics chipset, 1GB of RAM, a 120GB hard drive, 802.11b/g, Bluetooth, and an ExpressCard 54 slot. Although it seems like the 5520 has been kicking around for a bit, there's no word on price or availability (especially for the States).

[Via AVING USA]

[Lewis @ Aug 21st 2007 1:53PM]

Boy, you know you're out of the loop when you look at it thinking "That does look familiar, kind of like a speak'n'spell..."

[Diane @ Aug 21st 2007 2:14PM]

I thought it was BMW design that helped Acer with the 5920?

[Jonny @ Aug 21st 2007 2:27PM]

Porsche designed this? That is one FUGLY laptop!

[Matthew @ Aug 21st 2007 3:45PM]

http://www.dse.co.nz/cgi-bin/dse.storefront/46cb3f7c00613a222740c0a87f330681/Product/View/XC4119

We have had it in New Zealand for a few weeks already.

[thomas @ Aug 21st 2007 5:20PM]

so, is this better or the same or worse than the 5920G? if i were to buy one, which should i choose?

[Med Hicham @ Oct 31st 2007 5:03PM]

i had just bougth one -since 20 days ago, it's really very wonderful & with Windows Vista it's perfect ...

Really i'm enjoying with the acer aspire 5520 :p