Acer is a Taiwan-based company who grew to be in the top 5 PC makers of the world in the year 2004. In second position after Asus, it has the second biggest PC retail chain, Acerworld, in Taiwan. Acer manufactures a huge quantity of laptops for the consumer market and one of them is the new Aspire series 5043 WLMI.

The 5043 includes the following list of hardware’s being laptop:

• AMD Turion 64 ML-32 1.8 GHz CPU w/ 512 KB L2 Cache
• 1 GB RAM
• 100 GB Hard Disk Drive
• DVD +/- RW
• 15.4" Widescreen Display WSXGA
• ATI Mobile RADEON x1300 Video
• 802.11 B / G Wireless Adaptor
• Gigabit LAN
• V92 Modem

The AMD Turion 64 ML-32 1.8 GHz processor offers a good amount of power for a laptop. The Turion line of processors is a particularly designed series for the mobile technology market. These processors are configured to offer compatibility for both 32- and 64-bit version of Windows. They are designed to give maximum performance in the nowadays trend of slim and light-weight notebooks. Few of the design considerations with these processors have the capacity to offer longer battery life and better compatibility with the advanced wireless networking technologies and graphics adaptors.

The laptop even has a huge 100 GB of HDD space for such a slim and tiny package. The availability of that much memory offers the capability to travel with a lot music, movies, or documents. The HDD capabilities of many available mobile PC tend to begin at a min of 60 GB and max at 120 GB at present. The HDD space present on this laptop is more than average but not excessive. Though, for mobile computing the excessive capability of the HDD can be a major pressure on the battery. With the possibility of a laptop being picked or damaged, the availability of an additional storage device will be a better option instead of so much internal storage space.