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Acer Aspire 8930

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Pros
Great Hi-def screen
Good gaming performance
Cons
Poor surround speakers

Performance: Good: 70
Features: Good: 76
Design: Very Good: 85

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

Performance
Adobe Photoshop CS2	399
Autodesk 3ds max 8.0 SP-3 DirectX	347
Autodesk 3ds max 8.0 SP-3 Rendering	617
Battery Life (Video Playback in hh:mm)	2:54:41 AM
Doom 3, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	107.9
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, High, 1024 by 768	51.03
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, High, 1680 by 1050	29.7
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, High, 800 by 600	61.2
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, Normal, 1024 by 768	66.5
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, Normal, 1680 by 1050	46.53
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, Normal, 800 by 600	68.67
Far Cry, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	191.78
Firefox 2	315
Microsoft Office 2003 with SP-1	361
Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 9.0	219
Multitasking	400
Nero 7 Ultra Edition	573
Number of Included Batteries	1
Roxio VideoWave Movie Creator 1.5	215
Unreal Tournament 3, Highest, 1024 by 768	56.38
Unreal Tournament 3, Highest, 1680 by 1050	35.03
Unreal Tournament 3, Highest, 800 by 600	57.77
Unreal Tournament 3, Medium, 1024 by 768	70.89
Unreal Tournament 3, Medium, 1680 by 1050	39.78
Unreal Tournament 3, Medium, 800 by 600	78.36
Winzip Computing WinZip 10.0	223
WorldBench 6 Score	94
WorldBench 6 Word Score	Good

What You Should Know about the Aspire 8930

Multitask to Your Heart's Content and Not Bog Down

This laptop, equipped with at least 3GB of memory, will run all of your programs quickly (paired with a high-end CPU, that much memory will make things especially speedy). You'll be able to multitask to your heart's content, too, so go ahead--you can back up the entire contents of your hard drive to a DVD while watching YouTube videos and experimenting with textures on the 2MB photo of your client's art gallery in Photoshop. The main drawback is the extra expense: Loading up with more than the standard amount of RAM (2GB, these days) can add hundreds of dollars to a laptop's price, though it boosts performance by only about 10 percent. Also bear in mind that if you hope to use more than 3GB of RAM effectively, your PC must have a 64-bit installation of Windows.

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