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Acer TravelMate 8100

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Pros
Includes a DVI port
Cons
Pricey; offers faint stereo sound

Performance: Superior: 95
Features: Very Good: 84
Design: Very Good: 80

Find out how these scores, and their relative weights, combine to produce the PC World Rating.

Performance
ACD Systems ACDSee	561
Adobe Photoshop	338
Adobe Premiere	449
Ahead Nero	592
Battery Life (Office Applications)	4:04
Discreet 3ds Max DirectX	280
Discreet 3ds Max OpenGL	344
Microsoft Office XP	543
Mozilla	351
Musicmatch Jukebox	537
Number of Included Batteries	1
Roxio VideoWave	415
Windows Media Encoder	420
WinZip	377
World Bench 5 Score	94
World Bench 5 Word Score	Superior

WorldBench Tests
Multitasking	682

Performance
WorldBench 5: Performance word scores reflect comparisons of notebooks in the same category running the same operating system. See Guide to the Top-Rated Products for more details.	Superior: 94 (Windows XP Professional)
CPU	2-GHz Pentium M 760
Screen size	15.4-inch wide screen
System memory	1024MB of DDR2-533 SDRAM
Hard drive	100GB
Graphics	128MB DDR SDRAM ATI Mobility Radeon X700
Pointing device	Touchpad
Multipurpose bay	Yes
Optical drive	DVD+R DL/DVD?RW drive
Floppy drive	No
Ports	USB 2.0, FireWire, microphone and headphone jacks, S-Video, one PC Card slot
Communications	V.92 modem, gigabit ethernet, 802.11a/g
Included software	NTI Backup Now 3
Other features	Five-in-one media card reader, smart card slot
Overall design	Very Good
Battery life (hours:minutes)	4:04
Weight (typical/minimum, in pounds): Typical weight includes the computer, AC adapter, optical drive, and floppy drive (if offered).	7.6/6.4
Support policy	One-year parts and labor warranty; 10-hour daily toll-free support

What You Should Know about the TravelMate 8100

Not Much RAM for Multitasking

The more RAM your laptop has, the faster programs will run and the greater number of windows you can work in at one time. If your needs are simple and you rarely do more than two things at once on your PC, the relatively modest amount of memory that comes installed in inexpensive laptops will be enough. Today the standard amount of RAM shipped in most PCs is 2GB. If you like to multitask--say, you want to launch a search for a file and start backing up data to a disc while you watch a news video--you need more memory.