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Acer AS5810 Timeline - Newest technology and superb battery life in stunning design - Benchmark

Tuesday, 25 August 2009 15:18 Allan Hansen

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Article Index
Acer AS5810 Timeline - Newest technology and superb battery life in stunning design
Package contents
Physical aspects
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Benchmark
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Benchmark

All benchmarks are run at highest performance settings on the laptops. All other settings were left unchanged.

Windows Vista Experience Index

I had actually expected this computer to do better – the rating is not bad as such, but I thought it would have hit at least 4.

I have decided to compare it with the Novabook Proton, a slightly pricier laptop but with some better hardware in certain aspects. However Acer have made sure the notebook will not become obsolete to soon, thanks to the addition of for example HDMI. The Novabook Proton costs about £100 more than the Acer, so let us see what that gets you.
The Novabook Proton had the following specification - læs testen her
Specifications

Category
Students, Light gaming

Processor
Intel Core 2 Duo T8100 – 2.1 GHz – 800 MHz – 2 MB Cache

Chipset
Intel Express PM965 Mobile

RAM
2 x 1024MB = 2048 MB DDR2 – 667 MHz

GPU
nVidia GeForce 8400 G Mobile – 256 MB (dedicated) + 768 MB (shared) = 1024 MB

Storage
250 GB – SATAII – 5400 RPM hard drive

Display
13.3” – WXGA – 1280 x 800 Pixels

Sound card
Realtek High Definition Audio

Optical drive
Dual Layer DVD Burner

Battery
6 Celled Battery – 5200 mAh – 11.1 V

Connectivity
Intel Wireless Wifi Link 4965 AGN (300 Megabit)
Marvell Yukon 88E8056 (1000 Megabit)
BlueTooth Modem
56K Modem

I/Os
3 x USB 2.0
1 x E-Sata
1 x FireWire
1 x RJ11 (Modem)
1 x RJ45 (LAN)
2 x 3.5 mm Jack (audio)
1 x Card reader
1 x Expansionary port
1 x VGA
1 x Power
1 x Kensington lock slot

Operating system
Windows Vista Home Premium

Price
About £650.00.

Boot times and out of standby:

Boot and out of standby times are measured from when the power button is pressed and the Windows desktop appears.

The Novabook starts up very fast on AC, but otherwise the two are even. Slightly over one minute is fair enough for a laptop, so I do not think the Acer loses any points here.

Battery life:

Idle times are measured at the lowest power profile on the tested models while Classic times are tested at the highest performance profile. Both are tested with BatteryEater 2005 to find the maximum battery life at the given settings.

Here we have one of Acer’s current specialties. As promised, this product and the Timeline series in general have very good battery lives, making them optimal student and travelling computers. Some will prioritize battery life, others will not, just like with cell phones. I personally think it is great with a longer battery life. Impressive.
The processor:

SuperPi

Super Pi calculates the number Pi with 1 million decimals. The result is a time in seconds, meaning that the lower the number, the better. This can be used for direct comparison with other laptops that have run the same test.

The faster, 2.1GHz processor in the Novabook is quite noticeable here. The Timeline only has a 1.4GHz processor, which keeps price down and saves more power, but that was what Acer was aiming for in any case.

SiSoft Sandra CPU Arithmetic

SiSoft Sandra’s Whetstone and Drystone benchmark tests the processor’s ability to do pure number crunching, which occurs during gaming or different forms of picture editing. The measure is in Mflops (Millions Floating Point Operations Per Second) – the higher, the better.

Just like in the test above, the Acer is far behind. I am surprised the difference is so large.

SiSoft Sandra CPU Multimedia

The multimedia test in SiSoft Sandra is calculated on a 2D figure. The output (it/s) is Mandelbrot iterations per second, i.e. the bigger the better.

Same as above. If this continues for the other components, one seriously has to contemplate whether the extra £100.00 is worth the faster hardware.