Acer Extensa EX4420-5963

Sure its not the best looking laptop on the market, but you cant complain about the price for one of these bad boys.  If you have kids and theyre asking you if they can get a laptop for school, look no further.  With features like a 160GB hard drive and a 14.1″ widescreen LCD,  your kids will have no problem doing “homework” on their new laptop.  The price is too pretty to pass up for anyone looking for an affordable laptop with superb performance and great features.  Make sure to check out our inventory for the Acer Extensa EX4420-5963 .

Specs:

Processor AMD Athlon(TM) 64 X2
Processor Speed 1.9GHz
Display Type WXGA widescreen LCD with CrystalBrite technology (1280 x 800)
Screen Size 14.1″
System Bus 1600MHz
Cache Memory 256KB + 256KB at die Level 2
System Memory (RAM) 2GB
System Memory (RAM) Expandable To 4GB
Hard Drive Size 160GB
Optical Drive Double-layer DVDRW/CD-RW
Digital Media Reader or Slots Yes, digital media card reader
Graphics ATI RADEON X1250
Networking Ethernet LAN (RJ-45 connector)
Wireless Networking Built-in Acer InviLink wireless LAN (802.11b/g)
S-Video Outputs 1
Audio High-definition (2-channel support)
Speakers Built-in Acer 3DSonic stereo high-definition
PCMCIA Slots 1 Type II
USB 2.0 Ports 4I
EEE 1394 FireWire Ports 1
Parallel Ports None
Serial Ports None
Game Ports None

How Violent Games Can Improve Your Eyesight

As a kid growing up, my parents would always tell me my eyes would go bad playing too much video games.  Well according to scientists from the University of Rochester New York, adults playing violent video games will actually help improve their night vision for driving.  This sort of video-game therapy helped people distinguish different shades of grey.  So how did they test this theory and which games did they use?

They had 22 students divided into two groups. One group played Call of Duty 2 and Unreal Tournament while the second group played the The Sims 2.  Each group played for 50 hours.

At the end of the training session, the group playing the violent, action packed video games showed a 43% improvement of distinguishing their shades of grey. The group who played the non-violent Sims 2 showed no sign of improvement, but then again playing 50 hours of the Sims without going postal is an accomplishment in itself.

Read the full article here.

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