We were glad to see the included fingerprint scanner, which registered our prints easily and didn’t require multiple swipes. You can even use a finger swipe to boot the machine. You’ll need to set BIOS passwords to enable this feature, however. The Acer TravelMate 5270 also comes with Acer’s Empowering Technology, which includes such features as eLock management for locking and unlocking storage drives with a password.

Acer Acer TravelMate 5270 Performance
The Acer TravelMate 5270’s 2.2-GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T7500 processor with 2GB of memory and a 160GB hard drive performed reasonably well on our tests. On PCMark Vantage it scored a decent 3,184,Acer TravelMate 5720 Verdict,Overall, the Acer TravelMate Acer TravelMate 5270 notebook offers enough features to keep business users satisfied and working quickly. Its fast performance, long battery life, and generous screen real estate make it a very good choice for corridor warriors and meeting junkies. and the score was backed up by its solid multitasking abilities. We ran a few Internet Explorer windows, QuickTime, Skype, Adobe Reader, and a DVD simultaneously without any playback issues. On MobileMark 2007, the Acer TravelMate 5270 notched a score of 176, which is 30 points above average.

A dedicated ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2400 XT graphics processor garnered a slightly below-average score of 3,495 on 3DMark03. That’s still plenty of graphics horsepower for business tasks, though. You won’t be playing Crysis on your lunch hour, but this GPU is decent. It held up on F.E.A.R. with the resolution set to 1024 x 768 in autodetect mode, pulling in 23 frames per second.It also includes eRecovery management for backing up or restoring to older save points, eDataSecurity for encrypting and decrypting files, as well as ePower management for custom power settings.

Battery Life and Wireless
Battery life was also impressive at 4 hours and 1 minute with Wi-Fi on and 4:21 with the Wi-Fi turned off. That’s more than an hour above average for mainstream notebooks. Wi-Fi throughput was also strong: The Acer TravelMate 5270’s Wi-Fi scores were solid with its 802.11a/b/g/draft-n radio. At 15 feet from our router, the Acer TravelMate 5270 pulled in 18.8 Mbps. At 50 it hardly budged, still offering 18.4 Mbps of throughput.