Identification

• The Acer Extensa 5220 measured 14.17 inches wide, 10.51 inches deep and 1.61 inches thick. Standard versions of the Extensa 5220 weighed 6.39 lbs. before optional upgrades. A six-cell, 4000 mAh lithium-ion battery provided on-board power. Acer offered a larger eight-cell battery as an optional upgrade. Additional identifying features of the Extensa 5220 included an 89-key keyboard and a 2.76- by 1.77-inch integrated touch pad.
  
  

Processor, Memory, Storage

• Acer equipped the Extensa 5220 with an Intel Celeron M 540 processor. The processor featured a clock speed of 1.86 GHz, 1 MB of L2 cache and a front-side bus speed of 533 MHz. Base versions of the Extensa 5220 came standard with 512 MB of PC2-5200 RAM, upgradeable to a maximum of 2 GB. For storage, the computer came standard with an 80 GB Western Digital Scorpio hard drive that functioned at 5400 rpm and featured an 8 MB cache. Acer offered hard drives with larger capacities as optional upgrades. Acer also built a four-in-one media card reader into the computer. The card reader was compatible with Secure Digital, MultiMediaCard, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro and xD Picture memory cards.
  
  

Display and Multimedia

• The Acer Extensa 5220 featured a 15.4-inch display screen with a 16:10 aspect ratio and a native resolution of 1280 by 800 pixels. The Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100 controlled video and graphics on the Extensa 5220. The GMA X3100 featured 128MB of RAM. For audio, the computer made use of an integrated Realtek ALC268HD audio controller that played back sound through a pair of small, integrated stereo speakers. The Extensa 5220 also came with a Pioneer Double Layer rewritable DVD drive.
  
  

Connectivity and Expansion

• Extensa 5220 users had three ways of connecting to the Internet or a local area network. The first was via an integrated 56K voice and fax modem, the second via a Broadcom NetLink 10/100/1000 Ethernet card and the third via a 802.11b/g wireless card. Additional connections and ports available on the Extensa 5220 included one PC card slot, one 54-mm Express Card slot, four USB 2.0 jacks, one IEEE 1394 Firewire port, one 15-pin VGA connector, one S-Video output, an infrared port, one 3.5-mm microphone input jack and a pair of 3.5-mm audio outputs.