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Acer Ferrari 4000

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Pros
Delivers great battery life
Cons
Keyboard is awkwardly designed

Performance: Very Good: 82
Features: Superior: 91
Design: Good: 78

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

Performance
ACD Systems ACDSee	604
Adobe Photoshop	412
Adobe Premiere	473
Ahead Nero	572
Battery Life (Office Applications)	3:00
Discreet 3ds Max DirectX	298
Discreet 3ds Max OpenGL	384
Microsoft Office XP	568
Mozilla	444
Musicmatch Jukebox	583
Number of Included Batteries	1
Roxio VideoWave	381
Windows Media Encoder	467
WinZip	417
World Bench 5 Score	85
World Bench 5 Word Score	Very Good

WorldBench Tests
Multitasking	819

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.	Very Good: 85 (Windows XP Professional)
CPU	1.8-GHz Turion 64 ML-34
Screen size	15.4 inches, wide aspect
System memory	1024MB of DDR333 SDRAM
Hard drive	100GB
Graphics	128MB ATI Mobility Radeon X700
Pointing device	Touchpad
Bays	One
Bundled removable-media drives	One multipurpose bay with double-layer DVD?RW drive
Floppy drive	None
Ports	Four USB 2.0, FireWire, microphone, headphone, S-Video, docking station port, PC Card slot, infrared
Communications	V.92 modem, gigabit ethernet, Bluetooth, 802.11g
Business suite	N/A
Other features	five-in-one media card reader
Overall design	Basic
Battery life (hours:minutes)	Good: 3:00
Weight (typical/minimum, in pounds): Typical weight includes the computer, AC adapter, optical drive, and floppy drive (if offered).	Average: 7.9/6.7
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 Ferrari 4000

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.