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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
Physical aspects continued
Benchmark
Benchmark continued
Conclusion
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RAM - SiSoft Sandra Memory Bandwidth:

Sisoft Sandra’s Memory Bandwidth benchmark is used to measure the speed of the RAM – the higher the value, the better.

I am perplexed as to why part of the DDR3 RAM performs worse than the older DDR2. Keep in mind the test does not capture all of the 4GB of RAM, so one has to assume the Acer will perform better than the Novabook, having both newer RAM and more of it. As such, this particular benchmark is not a very good indicator of actual performance.

Hard drive performance - SiSoft Sandra Harddisk Read:

Sisoft Sandra’s hard drive test module is used to measure the performance of the hard drive. Sisoft Sandra runs a number of tests on the surface of the hard drive and calculates the average reading speed.

The hard drives are very even here, though both reach a fine reading speed. It is nice to see both notebook makers putting in a proper hard drive for once.

GPU performance - 3Dmark

The 3Dmark tests show the performance in DirectX 9, and paint a picture of the performance in newer games and applications. No tests have been run in DirectX 10.1 (which both cards support).

Here you can clearly see Novabook’s laptop is a light gamer with its dedicated 8400 GPU, as opposed to the Acer with its onboard chip. While it performs as expected, it is hardly impressive and is not capable of great graphical performance.

Overall performance

The PCMark 05 results can be compared directly with other laptops that have run the same PCMark version. The program produces a score from a test that includes the performance of the processor, RAM, hard drive, GPU, etc.

As the results above have indicated, the Acer does not score many points here. You clearly get much better hardware in Novabook’s laptop, although it invariably caters to a different segment of the market. More on that in the conclusion.

OpenOffice test

Since we have tested several laptops which are so well-suited for student use, I have decided to run some tests in OpenOffice (freeware which has the same functions as Microsoft’s Office bundle).

Here are some load times to give you a bit of insight into how quickly the computer loads a standard application like OpenOffice. Most can compare it with the PCs they normally work on.

Time to start up: 7 seconds
Load of browser (IE): 3 seconds