This is for all those of you who have an Acer Aspire 5102wlmi laptop and were not provided with CD-s containing its drivers. Thinking about reinstalling windows seems your worst nightmare. I’ve been there, so I understand how you feel. You can find here some of the drivers that will work with Windows XP. By following this this link you will be redirected to my blog. You will be able to find there drivers for the audio card, cardbus, modem, touchpad, video card and wireless adapter.

The Acer Aspire 5102wlmi is a 15.4-inch widescreen home/office multimedia notebook featuring the AMD Turion64 x2 processor. While this is a completely new offering from Acer, it utilizes many components from other Acer notebooks, primarily being from the Aspire 3100. It is so new, in fact, that instead of having its own drivers it shares many of the same drivers as the 3100. So new that many of the specs released by Acer America were wrong.

This notebook was on sale at Circuit City for around $849 store price without rebate. It also came with a free printer, notebook bag, and router. With the Circuit City Advantage Plus Protection plan (which covers for accidental drops and spills), the total price was exactly $1000. I am a college student and need a notebook that I can take to class, run engineering programs on, and play some games.

Quick Specs of the 5102:



AMD Turion64 x2 TL-50 (1.6 GHz, 512 KB L2 cache total, 256 KB on each core)

1 GB 533 MHz DDR2 RAM (2 x 512 MB)

120 GH Hitachi 4200 RPM HD

15.4-inch WXGA Acer CrystalBrite screen

ATI Radeon xPress 1100 integrated graphics card

Dual layer DVD +/- RW combo with lightscribe? (comes with lightscribe software, but drive doesn’t specify if it has lightscribe or not)

Windows Media Center Edition 2005

Atheros Wireless 802.11 a/b/g with Signalup high efficiency antennae

8-cell battery with a max of 4.5 hrs battery life with settings on low

The Balance has been struck. The Alienware has recently launched its latest Media Center Notebook Alienware Area-51 m5500, the subtle beast. This AlienwareLaptop offers two built in graphic options. When in the office or at home doingsome routine work, the integrated Intel Graphics Card gives you the optimum battery life and when you want to enjoy the adrenaline rush through your veins just flip a switch on the case to kick start the Nvidia GeForce Go 6600 MXM Graphics and experience the thrilling experience of this gaming monster. Alienware Laptops are considered as high end notebooks only but this one is actually a mid range one. The highlights of this Alienware Laptop are its Intel Core 2 Duo Processor, 1 GB of Random Access Memory, A Mobility Radeon X1400 or a NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600 with 256 MB RAM, 100 GB SATA HD and a Trio of USB 2.0 Ports.

This Alienware laptop gives you an extra-terrestrial feel at the first glance. The Area-51 m5500 is a great machine for gamers, professionals and enthusiasts. Delivers superb multimedia functionality, it is a power hungry machine but provides flexibility and good storage too. Considering the features that it provides you it is an affordable notebook and a must for gamers.

Specifications:

The Operating Systems provided with the Alienware Laptop m5500 include Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition, Microsoft Windows XP Professional Edition and Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005.

This high end gaming laptop uses Intel Premium M Processor (730 1.6 GHz –770 2.13GHz, 533MHz FSB, 2 MB Cache), Intel Celeron M Processor (370 1.5GHz, 400MHz FSB, 1MB Cache), Intel 915GM + ICH6-M Chipset for the raw power it generates.

For Graphics and Video Intel Extreme Graphics 3 and NVIDIA GeForce 6600 is installed which goes up to 256MB DDR Memory starts at 256 MB and goes upto 2 GB of PC-4200 DDR2 SDRAM at 533 MHz and 2 dedicated SO-DIMM slots for Dual Channel DDR2 Memory. Single Optical Drive with optional DVD+/- R/W Support has been provided.

Input/Output Ports include:

TV Out: One S-Video Out Connector

IEEE 1394: IEEE 1394a (4-pin) port

USB: 3 Hi-Speed USB 2.0 Ports

Headphone: 1 Headphone Jack

Audio: Intel High Definition 7.1 Channel Out (SPDIF) / Line-In, Microphone In

Network: Integrated Gigabit Ethernet RJ-45

Modem: Integrated 56K V.92 Modem RJ-11

PCMCIA Card Slot and 4 in 1 Memory Card Reader (SD/MS/MSPRO/MMC) are the Slots that have been incorporated in the machine.

The Area-51 m5500 comes with 1440×768 15.4” Wide XGA, 1680×1050 15.4” Wide SXGA+ and 1920×1200 15.4” Wide UXGA LCD Display to give you high resolution crisp pictures. The Dimensions of this extra terrestrial Alienware Laptop are: 1.36” (H) ×14.25” (W) ×10.75” (D)

The Alienware Laptop Area-51 m5500 is relatively compact and lightweight laptop weighing just 7.6 Pounds given it high-end parts. The Keyboard is comfortable to use, as are the Touch Pad and Mouse Buttons. This laptop also provides you the convenience of playing DVDs, CDs and many other media files without booting Windows with its unique Inter Video Instant On software. Mobile Application Performance is the forte of m5500 and Alienware covers the laptop with a One Year Onsite Warranty which includes around-the-clock, toll-free phone support as well. The Aleinware Laptop Area-51 m 5500 is the true worthy of its price.