Acer Aspire 9800 has huge size is the fact that it has a 20-inch screen. Yes, that’s twenty inches. Measuring 490 x 380 x 60mm (W x D x H) and weighing in at a hefty 8.5kg (including the huge power brick), there’s no way you’ll be lugging this monster of a laptop around.Despite the size of the screen, its resolution is a disappointing 1,680 by 1,050 pixels, which is low when you consider that you can get 1,920 by 1,200 on some 17-inch displays. The graphics adapter is an Nvidia GeForce Go 7600 using 256MB of memory, and there is also a 1.3-megapixel camera mounted in the top of the screen.
As standard the Aspire 9802WKMi comes with one of Intel’s T2300 Core Duo processors, clocked at 1.66GHz, and a 5,400rpm, 100GB hard drive. Our system had the storage option offered with the more powerful 9804WKMi with its T2500 (2.0GHz Core Duo), namely a RAID array of two disks.
The Aspire 9800 series uses Intel’s i945PM Express chipset with its DDR2 memory support. In the case of the review system this meant 1GB of 667MHz memory, but if that isn’t enough the motherboard can support up to 4GB via two SODIMM slots