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Acer TravelMate TM8571 – simple and smart - Benchmark

Sunday, 08 November 2009 09:17 Laptopfreak

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Article Index
Acer TravelMate TM8571 – simple and smart
Specifications
Construction & Design
Construction & Design continued
Special Features
Benchmark
Gaming
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Benchmark

This notebook is compared with the Acer TM8371 and Acer TM8471 from the same series, so they are quite similar.

The Acer TM8371 has the following specifications:

Intel® Core 2 Duo SU9400 – 1.4 GHz – 3 MB L2 cache - 800 MHz FSB
Intel® GS45 (Cantiga-GS) + ICH9M
2x 2048 MB Samsung DDR3 SDRAM – PC3-8500 - 1066 MHz
Intel® GMA 4500M Shared onboard
1x 500 GB 5400 RPM
13.3 inch AUO B133XW01 V3 LCD panel - 16:9 HD WXGA – 1366 x 768px
6 celled 2.8 Li-Ion battery

The Acer TM8371 costs about £700.00 and you can find a review of it here:

http://www.laptop-review.eu

The Acer TM8471 has the following specifications:

Intel Core Duo Processor SU7300 1.3 GHz 3 MB L2 Cache - 800 MHz FSB
Intel GS45 (Cantiga-GS) + ICH9M
1x 2048 MB DDR3 SDRAM PC3-850 533.3 MHz
1x 1024 MB DDR3 SDRAM PC3-850 533.3 MHz
Intel GMA 4500M HD onboard 64 MB Std.
1x 25GB S-ATA Seagate ST9250315AS 720RPM
14 inch HD LED LCD - LP140WH2-TLB1 panel WXGA (1366 x 768px)
1x Asanyo AS09D36 Lithium Ion battery 560mAh – 11.1V 6 cells

You can find a review of it here:

http://www.laptop-review.eu/

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 1 minute (57 seconds to be exact). That is okay, but hardly an impressive result. In addition it takes about 10 seconds for it to get out of standby, which is quite a long time.

Battery life:

Idle test settings
Fixed clocking frequency of 1197 MHz, brightness at 1/10, hard drive standby after 10 minutes and WiFi deactivated.
Classic test settings
Clocking frequency ranging from 1197 MHz to 1297 MHz, brightness at 10/10, hard drive standby after 10 minutes and WiFi activated.

The computer lasts about 6 hours on battery. It is acceptable, but Acer promises more than 8 hours on all three. The reason this one could not make it is because it was impossible to deactivate the dedicated GPU and switch to the integrated GPU instead, which is how it would have gone above the 8 hours. I received a popup message that informed me of this during both tests, which is why it is lower. I never discovered why it was unable to switch to the integrated GPU.

Processor and GPU

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.

In wPrime 2.0, the computer manages a time of 57 seconds, quite a bit better than the other two. However, it is not particularly impressive compared to other mainstream computers around these days.

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 8571 easily outperforms the others in the 3DMark test, no surprise since it is the only one of them to have dedicated graphics.

PCMark 05 tests the overall performance of the computer and utilizes all the components to give an overall rating.

Once again, the 8571 wins thanks to the dedicated GPU pulling up the score.

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.

The computer takes quite a few seconds to start up Office programs, even though it performs well in the other tests. Performance was probably affected by something running in the background, such as antivirus and the like.