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Acer TravelMate 8371 - Amazing battery life - Benchmark

Sunday, 01 November 2009 13:03 Laptopfreak

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Article Index
Acer TravelMate 8371 - Amazing battery life
Specifications
Package contents
Construction & Design
Construction & Design continued
Special Features
Benchmark
Gaming
Conclusion
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Benchmark

The notebook is compared with

Samsung X360

-    Intel Core 2 Duo SU9300 – 1.20 GHz – 800 MHz FSB – 3 MB Cache
-    1 x 1024 + 1 x 2048 MB DDR3 RAM – 800 MHz
-    Intel GMA 4500M HD – 32 MB (dedicated) + 1164 MB (shared)
-    1.8” – 120 GB HD – SATA300 – 16 MB – 5400 RPM
-    13.3” LED – 1280 x 800 Pixels
-    6200 mAh – 6 cells
-    Windows Vista Home Premium
-    Price about £900.00

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Acer Aspire 3935

-    Intel Core 2 Duo P7450 – 2.13 GHz – 3 MB L2 cache
-    2x 2048 MB Elpida PC3-8500 DDR3 SDRAM
-    Intel GMA 4500M HD Onboard – 64 MB
-    160 GB Serial-ATA HDD – 5400 RPM
-    13.3 inch 16:9 TFT LED-backlit display – WXGA resolution (1366 x 768px)
-    Price about £850.00

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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 computer starts up in about 55 seconds, which is decent but no better than the two other computers in comparison.

Battery life:

Idle test settings: Fixed clocking frequency of 1197.3 MHz, brightness at 1/10, hard drive standby after 10 minutes and WiFi deactivated.
Classic test settings: Clocking frequency ranging from 1197.2 MHz to 1396.7 MHz, brightness at 10/10, hard drive standby after 10 minutes and WiFi activated.

As can be seen, the computer can last more than 8 hours which is just phenomenal compared to most other notebooks around. At active use it shrinks to about 3.5 hours, which is still very acceptable in this segment.

Microsoft Office Load

Each program is loaded individually after a reboot as the Office programs load quicker if they have already been started up once during a session.

As can be seen, each program takes between 5 and 10 seconds to start up. It is quite acceptable but not exactly amazing. Here the processor is what drags down the performance and causes the long wait.

Point Benchmarks

wPrime calculates the square root of numbers up to 32 million and is capable of utilizing multiple cores to maximize performance. wPrime is measured in time, so the lower the better.
As can be seen, the Acer 8371 takes no less than 75 seconds, a long time compared to most other CPUs around. Samsung’s X360 is not much better though, but the Acer Aspire 3935 only takes 35 seconds which is pretty good.

3DMark 06 puts the computer through a number of graphics benchmarks and gives the computer a rating in accordance with how these play out.
The Acer 8371 comes in second here amongst the three, but the result is still not very good, because a score in this interval is generally poor compared to what you can get out of dedicated graphics. As such, the Acer 8731 does not get its strength from graphics performance.

PCMark 05 tests the overall performance of the computer and utilizes all the components to give an overall rating.
Once again the Acer 8371 comes in second among the three, but the score is decent for the segment.