Welcome to a Laptop AC Adapter specialist of the Acer Ac Adapter
Overall performance in our tests was swift. A time of 41sec was recorded in the Blender 3D rendering test, 53sec in the iTunes MP3 encoding test and 46min in the AutoGordianKnot DVD-to-Xvid file conversion test. All of these are solid results and the DVD-to-Xvid conversion time is especially encouraging if you want to use this PC for tougher-than-usual tasks. While the machine is running with adapters such as Acer Aspire One 521 AC Adapter, Acer Aspire One 533 AC Adapter, Acer Ferrari One 200 AC Adapter, Acer Aspire One D260 AC Adapter, Acer Aspire One D255 AC Adapter, Acer TravelMate 8172 AC Adapter, Acer Aspire 1680 AC Adapter, Acer Aspire 1825PT AC Adapter, Acer Aspire 1551 AC Adapter, Acer Aspire 4551 AC Adapter, Acer Aspire 4552 AC Adapter, Acer Aspire 4730 AC Adapter, its fan will make some noticeable noise, but we didn't find it to be too distracting in our environment.
Graphics performance from the mobile NVIDIA graphics chip was solid as well, recording 10386 in 3DMark06. You'll be able to play games on this all-in-one PC, but some won't play smoothly at the native 1920x1080-pixel resolution of the screen. You'll have to play at more modest resolutions and graphics detail levels in order to maintain a playable frame rate.
In the storage department, the 1TB hard drive identifies itself as a Seagate ST1000LM024 HN-M101MBB model in the Windows 8 Device Manager, with the second half of that being a reference to the Samsung SpinPoint HN-M101MBB (Seagate bought Samsung's hard drive business). This is a 2.5in notebook hard drive with a spin speed of 5400rpm and a SATA II interface. It's not the fastest drive we've ever seen, recording 33.65 megabytes per second (MBps) in our file duplication tests and 108MBps in both the CrystalDiskMark read and write tests. A configuration with an SSD (and a Core i7 CPU) is available if you want more speed.
Boot-up time for the Aspire U 7600 was 20 seconds, and this is the time that it took the PC to go from its off state to the Windows 8 Start screen and the point at which we could control the system to launch an app. Power consumption while the PC was under a full processing load was measured as being 70W, while standby power was 1.5W. The power button is capacitive and not that easy to locate on the frame. Acer has placed lights next to it that light up in a row towards the direction of the button so that you can easily find it. This adds about 0.2W to the standby time.
The price of the Aspire U 7600 isn't too enticing. However, you are getting a capable machine with notebook-level performance and discrete graphics that's packaged nicely behind a 27in capacitive touchscreen. It can be a productivity machine, it can be used for a little bit of gaming, and it also makes a great media consumption device. Indeed, the touchscreen is beautiful and it can be used not only for the computer, but also as a TV via the built-in dual digital tuner (it ships with a remote, too and it uses third-party TV software); external HDMI devices such as consoles or media players can be plugged to use it independently of the PC portion of the device. All this makes the Aspire U 7600 a rather versatile machine.
If you have reservations about using Windows 8, Acer supplies a guide with the machine so that you can quickly learn all the gestures of the new system. You can also check out our beginner's guide to Windows 8.