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Publié le 3 septembre 2012 par ehar

The touchpad doesn't have a vertical or horizontal scroll area, Acer Iconia Tab W501 battery as these and other functions have been resolved with multi-touch gestures. Thus, various commands can be executed with two fingers directly on the touchpad. Among them, scrolling and zooming images or rotating elements. Acer Iconia Tab W500 battery A mouse-less use is made easier and more comfortable with that. Instructions about how exactly the multi-touch gestures are to be executed can be seen on a sticker on the touchpad. The possibility of settings is quite extensive. The integrated mouse keys are found immediately underneath the touchpad in a narrow, silver bar. They have a good and pleasant pressure point. Acer NCR-B/428 battery

Asus hasn't changed anything about the display. Acer AS09B5E battery A 10.1 inch display with an LED backlight and matt surface is still used. The matt display is a big advantage because only few reflections evolve in sunlight. Merely the display's bezel reflects because of the high-gloss surface. Working outdoors is simplified with the matt surface, whereas recognizing the content is only difficult when the light's intensity is too great. Acer TravelMate 8372TG battery The display has a native resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels; however an interpolated resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels isn't possible under Windows 7. An external monitor or LCD TV can be connected via the integrated, analog video-out (VGA). Nevertheless, an HDMI-out would have been desirable for higher resolutions. Acer BT.00405.011 battery

Like the predecessor, the 10.1 inch display makes a good first impression. Acer TravelMate 8372T battery The rates differ negatively in comparison to the forerunner... We noted the even still good illumination of 78 percent, a very good black value of 0.14 and a high contrast of 847:1 positively. The illumination and the contrast differ slightly. The Asus Eee PC 1005HA-M bids an illumination of 80% and a contrast of 1011:1. Furthermore, we noted the display's low brightness negative. The average is 108 cd/m2, whereas the minimum of 95 cd/m2 is reached in the lower area and the maximum of 122.3 cd/m2 in the center area. Acer TravelMate 8372G battery

A few refinements and more brightness can be tickled out of the screen with the display optimizing program EeeCTL in many Eee variants. But there were no improvements or a plus of brightness in our prototype with EeeCTL. Acer TravelMate 8372 battery

The viewing angle stability hasn't changed in comparison to the forerunners with Windows XP and Vista. Everything's okay on the horizontal plane but on the vertical plane, the stability can only be called average. Acer Iconia 6886 battery

Now we come to probably one of the most important points of this review: Acer Iconia 6120 battery The new hardware components' performance. The Asus Eee PC 1005PE is one of the first netbook models that are based on Intel's new Pine Trail platform. The Intel Atom N450 works with a clock rate of 1.66 GHz. This, of course, equals that of Intel's Atom N280 just alone from the clock rate. Acer LC.BTP00.129 battery

However, the memory controller and the graphic engine (Intel GMA 3150) are packed into the processor of the new Atom N450. In the end this means that the chip set (NM10) can do without these components, making a Soutbridge unnecessary. A three-chip turns into a two-chip solution, which bids a bit more power but uses less electricity and makes a longer battery life possible at the same time. The new Atom processors are manufactured in a cutting edge 45 nanometer structure width. Acer LC.BTP00.128 battery

The new CPU with the correlating NM10 chip set from Intel has a power consumption (TDP) of only 7.5 watts. In comparison, an Intel Atom N280 with an Intel GMA 950 graphic consumes 24.5 watts. Acer BT.00603.12 battery

The Asus Eee PC 1005PE is supplied with a 1 GByte DDR2-800 from Asinc ex-factory. The memory bank is easily accessible via a cover on the bottom. A maximum of a 2 GByte DDR2-800 memory can thus be built in. A 250 GByte hard disk from Seagate (Momentus 5400.6) is implemented as a mass memory device. A 1005P/PE model with a solid state drive (SSD) hasn't been announced. Acer AL10G31 battery

The Intel GMA 3150 Graphic engine is now integrated in the processor and not longer in the chip set. Acer AL10BW battery The new processors haven't yet been officially released and there is only still little information available at the moment. New details and a few netbooks of various manufacturers can be expected on the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas taking place from January 7th to 10th 2010. The Intel Atom N450 is manufactured in a 45 nanometer structure width and has a power dissipation (TDP) of 5.5 watts. A slight performance gain is achieved with Intel's GMA 3150 in comparison to the Atom N280 in combination with Intel's GMA950. The biggest advantage is the lower power consumption. Acer AL10B31 battery

The benchmarks have all been executed in the Super Performance Profile, in which the CPU is overclocked to 1710 MHz. In return, the CPU can be clocked down to 800 MHz in energy savings mode. Acer AL10A31 battery

The Intel Atom N450's "strength" lies in the field of application benchmarks. Acer AK.006BT.074 battery The N450 achieved 584 points in single-core and 894 points in multi-core rendering of CineBench R10. Current netbook models with an Intel Atom N280 and a GMA 950 graphic have only slightly fewer points than the GMA 3150. The distance is between 10 - 20 points. By the way, the 1005PE achieves 1425 points in PCMark 2005 with which it can't distinguish itself significantly from older models, either. We couldn't execute PCMark Vantage on our prototype without errors. ACER Aspire One E100 battery

The synthetic gaming benchmarks aren't the Intel GMA 3150's field. Acer NCR-B/811 battery The graphic chip scored 2840 points in 3DMark 2001SE! (2146 in a resolution of 1024x768). It goes even further downwards in newer benchmarks. It's then only a meager 150 points in 3DMark 2006, whereby the processor reached 507 points. The netbook isn't suitable for gaming and a performance gain, in comparison to the N280 with Intel's GMA 950, can't be achieved. Acer AS10C7E battery

We also ran SuperPI, WPrime and SiSoftware Sandra in order to create a broader CPU comparison base. Acer AS10C5E battery The SuperPI 1M calculation was finished after 86 seconds (2M: 196 seconds; 32M: 4337 seconds). The WPrime computation was finished after 114 seconds (1024M: 3626 seconds). Furthermore, the processor achieved 4210 MIPS and 2512 MFLOPS in SiSoftware Sandra's benchmark test. These tests show that the Intel Atom N450 can't clearly distinguish itself from the N280, either. It is always only in the lead with a few points, with which however a performance gain can't be achieved. Acer 934T2086F battery

Moreover, Asus equips the more expensive models (1005PE) with Seagate's fast 250 GByte Momentus hard disks. Acer 4ICR19/66-2 battery The cheaper models (1005P) only get a 160 GByte hard disk instead. The tool, HDTune Pro 4.00, certifies that the built-in SATA hard disk has good rates. The transfer rates are between 36.5 and 76.5 MBytes per second, whereas the average rate is 61.7 MByte per second. The access rate of 18.1 milliseconds is normal. In return, the throughput rate is in the upper third with 117.0 MBytes per second. Acer 4INR18/65-2 battery

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It can come to problems when external peripherals are attached if the latencies of a netbook are too high. A frequent problem is sound crackling with external sound cards. In order to prevent unpleasant surprises, we checked the latencies under Windows with help from the DPC Latency Checker Tool. Result: The rates majorly stay under 500µs, but there are a few outliers over the limit of 1000µs. Thus, it could come to problems with peripheral devices. Acer AS10D7E battery

Naturally, the following question also comes up: Is the new Intel Pine Trail platform suitable for gaming and HD video material? In order to check this, we insinuated World of Warcraft's trial version and watched flash HD videos via You Tube. Acer AS10D73 battery

HD videos are becoming more and more popular and naturally you'd like to enjoy videos on the go on a netbook. We've chosen the trailer from "Ninja Assassin" on YouTube and let it run as a normal video (854x354/701Kbps), in 720p (1280x532/701kbps) and in 1080p (1920x789/701kbps). Acer AS10D71 battery

The normal flash video wasn't a problem and the processor had a capacity of around 55 percent. Acer AS10D61 battery The frame rate was between 18 and 25.6 fps. The 720p HD video already demanded the graphic engine and the processor significantly more and didn't run smoothly any longer. The processor settled to about 90% and the frame rate fluctuated between 7.8 and 21.5 fps. Rendering in 1080p isn't possible. The picture jolted quite intensely (0.8 to 4.7 fps) and the system was loaded to full. Acer AS10D5E battery

To judge the gaming performance in comparison, Acer AS10D51 battery we insinuated World of Warcraft's (WoW) trial version and measured the refresh rate. We measured outside and of course also inside of buildings (abbey) once. We reached a maximum of 12 fps outside the abbey. The graphics are put under higher demand inside the abbey and it was only a weak 9 fps on average. Thus, the new Pine Trail range is only suitable for gaming to an extent. A performance gain in comparison to the old range couldn't be observed here, either. Acer AS10D41 battery

The Eee PC 1005PE works almost silently in normal mode. The new model could impress us with that. The netbook gets a lot more audible under load during 3D operation. Acer AS10D3E battery

We assessed rates between 30.1 dB(A) and 33.2 dB(A) in normal use. You barely ever hear the netbook. The built-in 250 GByte hard disk emits a maximum of 31.2 dB(A) at access. In return, the Asus Eee PC 1005PE is quite audible under load. We could assess a maximum volume of 39.2 dB(A) under 3D and CPU load. The soundscape isn't Acer Aspire S3 battery

The temperatures that we assessed left a good impression. ACER Aspire V3 battery The measurements were made at a room temperature of 23.0°C. The temperatures on the upper side always stay within a green field, even in normal use, with a maximum of 29.9 degrees Celsius. However, the warmest area is on the wrist-rest's level. The assessed temperatures on the bottom also stay within a limit. We could establish a maximum of 32.7 degrees Celsius. In opposition, it was 5 degrees Celsius more on the Eee PC 1005HA-M. Acer AP13D7F battery

Asus has placed two stereo loudspeakers almost invisibly on the case's front bottom. Acer AP13D6F battery But the speakers weren't impressive in the new model, either. They emit a high volume but it's not really a delight. Deep pitches and bass are still not existent and high pitches are too dominating. The loudspeaker's sound makes a very artificial impression. You should use external loudspeakers or good headphones for a better playback because the sound is a good deal better over the 3.5 millimeter socket. Acer 3IDF5/67/93 battery

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