Laptops from the row Acer TravelMate are designed firstly as a working notebooks. New model is taking some advantages from the multimedia row Aspire Timeline - style, slimm design and durable battery.
Small and light notebooks with high-economy processors were very expensive in past. Now after price reduction of economy platform Intel those notebooks are getting to ordinary users.
Acer TravelMate 8371 has slimm profile and cover from metal, there are also some design and color changes. The cover is glossy so there are often remaining fingerprints but those are not much apparent.
Mechanically the notebook is on very good level, cover is solid and there are no defect on the display even when pressing on the cover. The construction is solid as well, nothing is bent when you pick up the notebook by just one corner. Display can be opened at maximum 130 degrees.
Equipment includes basic standard, on the left side is multifunctional card reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS Pro/xD), two USB ports, Ethernet, Docking connector and power input. On the right side are audio connectors, third USB slot, cooling system output and analog D-Sub videooutput. There are no connectors on the front side. The docking option is very good, on the other side i miss ExpressCard slot. Due to the slimm design there is missing some DVD drive as well..
Dimensions (323x228x25) are good when you often transport your notebook and considering 13'' display the weight 1,71kg is fine. The 65W power source is not big.
TravelMate 8371 is running with the economy version of Centrino 2. Tested configuration contained Intel Core 2 Duo SU9400 frequency 1,4Ghz (800MHz FSB) with 3MB L2 Cache. CHipset Intel GS45 has got integrated graphics.
Notebook has got 4GB RAM - two modules DDR3 FSB 800MHz
Single-Thread mode
- test of calculations with fixed point: 17 257
- test of calculations with floating point: 11 101
Multi-Thread mode
- test of calculations with fixed point: 34 301
- test of calculations with floating point: 21 944
Cinebench 9.5
- Rendering (Single CPU): 253
- Rendering (Multiple CPU): 464
- Multiprocessor Speedup: 1,83
Windows Vista – CPU
- Index CPU: 4,6
- Index RAM: 4,9
- HWiNFO32: 2501 MB/s
Processor is focused as a low-consuming and therefore the performance is lower, but if you compare with Atom CPU it is still more than double. When working the speed is good enough.
Wide-angle display 13,3'' 16:9 and HD Ready resolution 1366x768 is backlighted with LED offers good contrast and lower consumption. The display is dull which i find better for travelling notebook.
GPU is just integrated Intel GMA 4500MHD which as economy as well but will not run well with any new games. Since the notebook will be used for work i think that this does not matter
Tests 3D Mark
- 3DMark 2001: 4185
- 3DMark 03: 1878
- 3DMark 05: 1007
- 3DMark 06: 706
Cinebench 9.5
- Shading (CINEMA 4D): 299
- Shading (OpenGL Software Lighting): 759
- Shading (OpenGL Hardware Lighting): 992
- OpenGL Speedup: 3,32
Cooling system
Notebook does not getting hot alot due to the used components and therefore the cooling system was easy to build. Cooler runs nonstop but is very silent.
When working the notebook has almost the same temperature all the time, when on maximum performance is the temperature higher but you can feel just on touchpad that it goes warm. It is not a problem to work with this notebok placed on your legs.
Battery
Battery has hot a capacity 56 Wh. Standard working time is 9 hours 38 minutes. So as you can see using all economy saving technologies brought the time to great value. Battery goes on full in almost 2 hours of charging
Conclusion
Acer Travellmate 8371 is a notebook with very good price for travellers. If you want to have high mobile solution and you can miss optical drive then this one can be a good one for you.
+ very good time on Battery
+ slimm design
+ good price
- small touchpad buttons
- digital output missing
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