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Benchmark
All benchmark tests are run at high performance settings on the netbook. Otherwise no settings have been tampered with.

Windows Vista Experience Index:
The computer does not have a Vista Experience Index as it is running XP. I wouldn't recommend getting Vista on it because it only has 1GB RAM, which just doesn't cut it for Vista.

I have found another 3-celled netbook reviewed on our Danish sister site. It's in a lower price range and has some different things to offer, so it's interesting to compare the two. There is money to be saved, but do you lose anything?

The Acer Aspire One A150 3G model had the following specifications:
 
Processor
Intel AtomN270, 1.6GHz, 512KB L2 Cache, 533MHz FSB.
 
Chipset
Intel i945GME, 82801GHM ICH7-M/U southbridge.
 
RAM
1.024MB DDR2, PC5300 RAM, 667MHz, Hyundai module (1x512MB+512MB onboard), 1.5GB is max according to Acer.
 
GPU:
Intel i945GME, with 8MB DDR2 RAM.
 
HDD:
160GB hard drive, 2.5" SATA, 8MB cache, 5400RPM, Hitachi Travelstar 5K320.
 
Display:
8.9", with Acer HighBrightness Crystal Brite technology, WSGA TFT, resolution of 1024x600.
 
Battery:
3 celled, 2200mAh.
 
Operating system:
Windows XP Home Edition.
 
Price:
About £330 including VAT.

Boot & out of standby times

 

 
Boot and out of standby times are measured from when the power button is pressed and the Windows desktop appears.
 
It took quite a while to start up the Vivienne. Exactly why I do not know, but there must be some tedious loading procedures hidden away in the netbook. When it actually had started up, it was quick to get out of standby. As can be seen it can be done faster, but it shouldn't be a problem for most as it will likely remain in standby anyway.
 
Battery life

 
Idle times are measured at the lowest power profile on the tested models while Classic times are measured on high performance settings. Both are tested with BatteryEater 2005 in order to find the maximum battery life at the prevailing settings.
 
You don't get much juice from measly 3 cells. That's likely why most are going for 6-celled batteries now, which would be preferable as it is a netbook where mobility and thus battery life is important. Don't expect much from the battery during use or idle, but do expect to recharge quite often. In this regard, the two computers are fairly even, particularly during use.

The processor
 
SuperPi

Super Pi calculates the number PI with 1 million decimals. The result is a time in seconds, meaning that the lower the number, the better. The number can be used for direct comparison with other laptops that have run the same test.
 
Fairly standard for netbooks. They are side by side here and equally strong. They perform well for netbooks, but it's nothing compared to bigger, more powerful notebooks (but those don't really compare since they're aimed at a completely different segment of the market).

SiSoft Sandra CPU Arithmetic
 

 

 
SiSoft Sandra's 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.

Here you can see that the Vivienne is actually taken over by Acer's netbook. When it comes to crunching numbers, you get more performance from the cheaper computer of the two. I doubt that it is something the standard user will notice, but everything counts toward the overall impression.
 
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.

Just the opposite of the above; here the HP is slightly faster. Still, the difference is marginal at best and if it weren't for the numbers, you wouldn't know there even was a difference.