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Questa è una recensione della macchina in oggetto fatta dallo staff di ZDNet, sicuramente più autorevole di quello de "Il mio portatile"
Ecco uno stralcio della sezione "
Performance":
Most of the interest around the Pentium-M/Centrino platform concerns its promised combination of performance and battery life, which is supposed to take portable computing to a new level. Until now, we've only had Intel's word for it, so we were excited to get our hands on Acer's system and give it a thorough benchmarking.
Intel has claimed that a 1.6GHz Pentium-M notebook delivers slightly better performance than a system built around the previous-generation 2.4GHz Mobile Pentium 4-M. The 1.6GHz TravelMate 800 certainly acquits itself well: its mainstream application performance is 20.5 percent better than Sony's 2.4GHz VAIO PCG-GRX616SP (Business Winstone 2001 scores of 58.7 and 48.7 respectively). The TravelMate 800's advantage narrows to 10.9 percent when running high-end applications, but the difference is still significant (Content Creation Winstone scores of 35.5 and 32 respectively); however, neither of the latter scores can touch the fastest notebook we've tested – Dell's 2.8GHz desktop Pentium 4-based Inspiron 5100, which scores 42.4 in the Content Creation 2002 test.
When we used BAPCo's MobileMark 2002 (which runs a mix of mainstream applications in a similar manner to Business Winstone), it put the TravelMate 800 ahead of the Inspiron 5100 by 6.4 per cent (productivity scores of 184 and 173 respectively).
MobileMark 2002 also provides a battery life rating, and this is where the Pentium-M platform really shines: 4 hours and 40 minutes, combined with excellent desktop-mode (1600MHz) performance, really is a new departure for portable computing. Our usual BatteryMark 4.01 test came up with an almost identical result -- 4 hours 42 minutes in desktop mode. The TravelMate 800 is equipped with a reasonably hefty 14.8V, 4,400mAh battery (65.1Wh), and we found that tweaking the power management settings allowed us to get well over 5 hours' life from the system. However, with the CPU clocked down to its minimum 600MHz, performance does take a big hit.
Finally, as you'd expect from its leading-edge 64MB ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 graphics chip, 3D performance is excellent. In fact, the TravelMate 800's 3DMark 2001 score of 7,285 is the best we've recorded on any notebook to date.
Qui trovate la recensione completa, insieme a quelle del Dell Latitude D600 e del Sony Vaio Z1. Bye!
Recensione Travelmate 800: http://reviews.zdnet.co.uk/review/13/2/3243.html
le altre:
http://reviews.zdnet.co.uk/category/13/10.html