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Benchmark

All benchmarks are run at highest performance settings on the laptop. Otherwise no settings are tampered with.

Windows Vista Experience Index



This computer did not receive a rating for reasons unknown. I would expect it to score well enough though.

I have decided to compare it with the HP mini Vivienne Tam Edition. It is a netbook that costs about the same, but I think you will be surprised at how much extra performance you get here in Acer Ferrari One.

The HP Mini Vivienne Tam Edition device had the following specifications:

Category
Students, the design conscious, casual surfers.

Processor
Intel® Atom™ processor N270, 1.60 GHz

Chipset
Intel® 945GSE Chipset

RAM
Supports up to 1GB of DDR2 RAM

Hard drive
SATA-harddisk 80 GB, 4200 o/m

Display
10.1” WSVGA HP LED Brightview Infinity widescreen

Sound card and speakers
3D Sound Blaster Pro-compatible sound 16 bit integrated
Generic stereo
Webcam with integrated microphone

GPU
Shared

Battery
3-celled Lithium-ion battery (Li-Ion)

I/Os
2x USB 2.0
1x 1 RJ45 Ethernet port
2x Combo-port for headphones and microphone, expansionary port
1x 2-in-1 card reader that supports SD/MMC formats

Wireless connectivity
802.11b/g WLAN
Bluetooth® wireless network

Dimensions
26.17 cm (W) x 16.67 cm (D) x 2.52 cm (H)
1.02 kg incl. battery
92% full-sized keyboard

Support
Support is available via HP

Warranty
1 year collect and return, spare parts and labour
The product warranty can be extended such that probable defects are covered for up to three years; ask your local HP retailer

Operating system
Original Windows® XP Home Service Pack 3 (32-bit)

Software included
Recovery-CD/DVD
Symantec™ Norton Internet Security™ 2009 (60 days live update)
Help and Support for portable PC
Microsoft® Works

Price
About £450 including VAT

Read the review here


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.

Not much of a difference here, although the Ferrari is a bit quicker. Lower boot time is always an advantage, but it may just be because of Windows 7.

Battery life



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

Acer promise their product will last longer than this. I do not know if I received a poor test battery, but it lasted much shorter than I expected. I think you can expect at least an hour or two more from a new model, but these are the results.

The processor

SuperPi



SuperPi calculates the number Pi with 1 million decimals. The result is a time in seconds, hence lower is better. The number can be directly compared with other devices that have run the same test.

The processor in the Acer Ferrari One crunches the numbers slightly faster than HP’s processor. This is something you will notice in day to day tasks.

SiSoft Sandra CPU Arithmetic



SiSoft Sandra's Whetstone and Drystone benchmarks tests the processor’s ability to carry out pure number crunching that occurs during gaming or photo editing. The measure is in Mflops (Millioner of Floating Point Operationer Per Second), and higher is better.

For the same price you get a lot more number crunching from Acer’s processor. Of course it is a newer model, and HP may be charging a premium for the design while skimping a bit on the hardware.

SiSoft Sandra CPU Multimedia



The Multimedia test in SiSoft Sandra performs calculations on a 2D figure. The result (it/s) is Mandelbrot iterations per second, and bigger is better.

Again we can spot the same difference. It is nice to see what the right choice can do for the performance of a computer, proving that there is reason to examine several different models that share the same price before you buy.