which helps boost performance while conserving battery life

Calendar September 5, 2010 | Posted by admin

This was evident in our Cinebench 10 testing, in which its score improved almost 1,000 points from 5,862 to 6,777. (Cinebench measures processor capability, specifically its ability to render an image.)

For $50 less than its predecessor (or the same price, if you upgrade to the six-cell battery), the Aspire One AOD250-1165 offers all the same perks and an even slimmer, more travel-friendly design. For netbook bargain-hunters in particular, that’s a tough deal to pass up.

Graphics performance was also excellent, but it wasn’t uniformly record-setting. The Panther’s Nvidia GeForce 280M GPU is paired with 1GB of dedicated DDR3 video memory, but bear in mind that this is only a single GPU.

You also get a 90-day trial of Microsoft Office, and the one-year warranty on parts and labor is standard. The Panther turned in a whopping 174 frames per second (fps) on our Company of Heroes DirectX 9 test, and 102fps on our Far Cry 2 test.

Clearly, this is a formidable gaming machine, but it’s not quite up to the caliber of high-end models we’ve seen with Scalable Link Interface (SLI) configurations.

Apple kicked the MacBook Pro processor up a notch, from a 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU to 2.8GHz. (For an extra $300, you can upgrade to a 3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU.)

On the software side, exclusives like VeriFace, a security feature that uses the Webcam to identify your face, and the OneKey Rescue System, a one-touch factory reset button, are nice enough.

The 2530p is powered by a low-voltage Core 2 Duo L9400 processor running at 1.86GHz, 3GB of RAM, and Intel’s integrated GMA 4500MHD graphics engine.

This model comes with an 80GB solid state drive (SSD), which helps boost performance while conserving battery life, plus an integrated DVD burner—a rarity among 12-inch notebooks.

When the GeForce 310M GPU is active, you can expect the U30Jc-A1’s battery to deplete much quicker. But what you lose in battery life, you gain in 3D performance.

The Libre has several other functions worth noting. Like the Nook and Kindle, the Libre can display digital photos or other images that you load onto it, in gray-scale of course.

Also, you can turn off “reflow” in PDF documents you’re looking at to better display any images they contain. We saw equally impressive performance on our 3DMark06 test, with a score of 4,091 at 1,024×768.

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