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Acer Aspire 3935 - Laptop with style - Benchmark

Sunday, 14 June 2009 12:59 Mads D.

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Article Index
Acer Aspire 3935 - Laptop with style
Specifications
Package contents
Build & Design
Build & Design continued
Special Features
Benchmark
Benchmark continued
Gaming
Conclusion
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Benchmark

Comparison
The computer is pitted against the Toshiba Tecra M10-10H, which is also made for businessmen and the like. In terms of hardware, the Tecra offers:

Intel Core 2 Duo P8400 – 2.26 GHz
Intel GM45 chipset
2048 Mb DDR2 800 MHz
Intel® Mobile GMA 4500M HD onboard
160 GB HDD
Windows Vista Business Edition

The Toshiba Tecra costs about £700 and you can read our review of it here: http://www.laptop-review.eu/Reviews/Laptops/toshiba-tecra-m10-10h-an-attractive-business-laptop.html

In the various benchmarks, the Acer Aspire 3935 uses Windows Vista’s ”High performance” power profile when on AC and ”Power saver” when on battery.

Boot and out of standby times

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

The Aspire 3935 powers up in about 45 seconds with the Toshiba falling just 2 seconds short at 47. A decent result; anything around 45 seconds is acceptable. The computer also gets out of standby very quickly, whereas the Tecra takes 5 seconds.
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Battery life

Battery-eater Pro 2,70 is used to measure the longevity of the batteries.

Idle test settings: Fixed clock frequency at 2130 MHz, brightness 10/10, HDD standby after 10 minutes, and WiFi and Bluetooth activated.
Classic test settings: Varying clock frequency between 2130 MHz and 1600 MHz, brightness at 10/10, HDD standby after 10 minutes, and WiFi and Bluetooth activated.

As shown by the graph the computer lasts for 1 hour and 26 minutes at high performance, which isn’t much. At idle it lasts up to 5 hours and 32 minutes, which is quite a large difference. The Tecra thus wins at classic test settings while the Aspire 3935 takes the cake in idle. Battery life clearly depends largely on what kind of programs you run…the more demanding, the lower the battery life.

Processor

wPrime

wPrime calculates the number Pi with 1 million decimals.

The Toshiba Tecra was sadly not tested in wPrime, but the result is nevertheless quite alright.

Sisoft Sandra CPU Arithmetic

SiSoft Sandras 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.

As there have been some problems with the difference between SiSoft Sandra 2008 and 2009 the results might not be correct. However considering that the Acer Aspire 3935 is powered by an Intel Core 2 Duo P7450 – 2.13 GHz – 3 MB L2 cache processor against an Intel Core 2 Duo P8400 – 2.26 GHz in the Toshiba Tecra, the latter should score more points in this benchmark.

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.

Unfortunately, there are no benchmark results for the Toshiba Tecra here either.