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Acer TravelMate 3000

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Pros
Lightweight and reasonably-priced
Cons
Lacks an optical drive

Performance: Fair: 63
Features: Very Good: 80
Design: Good: 76

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

Performance
ACD Systems ACDSee	698
Adobe Photoshop	385
Adobe Premiere	544
Ahead Nero	1269
Battery Life (Office Applications)	3:58
Discreet 3ds Max DirectX	410
Discreet 3ds Max OpenGL	721
Microsoft Office XP	574
Mozilla	432
Musicmatch Jukebox	610
Number of Included Batteries	1
Roxio VideoWave	459
Windows Media Encoder	477
WinZip	440
World Bench 5 Score	78
World Bench 5 Word Score	Good

WorldBench Tests
Multitasking	798

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.	Good: 78 (Windows XP Professional)
CPU	1.73-GHz Pentium M 740
Screen size	12.1 inches, wide aspect
System memory	512MB of DDR2-533 SDRAM
Hard drive	60GB
Graphics	Intel 915GM using main memory
Pointing device	Touchpad
Bays	None
Bundled removable-media drives	DVD-ROM and CD-RW combo drive
Floppy drive	None
Ports	Two USB 2.0, FireWire, microphone, headphone, docking station port, PC Card slot, infrared
Communications	V.90 modem, gigabit ethernet, Bluetooth, 802.11g
Business suite	None
Other features	Four-in-one card reader, optional docking station
Overall design	Good
Battery life (hours:minutes)	Good: 3:58
Weight (typical/minimum, in pounds): Typical weight includes the computer, AC adapter, optical drive, and floppy drive (if offered).	Light: 5.1/3.2
Vendor's reliability/service	Average/Average
Support policy	One-year parts and labor warranty; 9-hour weekday toll-free support

What You Should Know about the TravelMate 3000

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.