Benchmark results
| 7-zip compression of 205MB files | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acer Timeline 5810 (battery) | MSI Wind (mains) | MSI Wind (battery) | HP Pavilion dv2 (battery) | HP Pavilion dv2 (mains) | Acer Timeline 5810 (mains) |
| 93 | 235 | 241 | 248 | 243 | 93 |
The Timeline's SU9400 processor is derived from the Core 2 Mobile family, and it shows. The dual-core processor is over twice as fast as the AMD Neo or Intel Atom at helping compress 205MB of pictures into one large 7-zip file.
| Terminator Salvation 480p (mov) playback via VLC | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acer Timeline 5810 (battery) | MSI Wind (mains) | MSI Wind (battery) | HP Pavilion dv2 (battery) | HP Pavilion dv2 (mains) | Acer Timeline 5810 (mains) |
| 8.02 | 22.4 | 26.5 | 22.6 | 20.2 | 7.85 |
| Terminator Salvation 720p (mov) playback via VLC | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acer Timeline 5810 (battery) | MSI Wind (mains) | MSI Wind (battery) | HP Pavilion dv2 (battery) | HP Pavilion dv2 (mains) | Acer Timeline 5810 (mains) |
| 17.11 | 55.2 | 62.9 | 49.9 | 46.2 | 18.9 |
The playing back of high-definition movies - 480p and 720p - is very comfortable on the T5810. The MSI Wind, powered by Atom, suffers with the 720p clip, stuttering in parts.
| Laptop - ET:QW - medium quality - 1,024x600 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acer Timeline 5810 (battery) | MSI Wind (mains) | MSI Wind (battery) | HP Pavilion dv2 (battery) | HP Pavilion dv2 (mains) | Acer Timeline 5810 (mains) |
| 3.35 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 21.3 | 28.3 | 5.6 |
But Intel's gaming performance remains poor. The X4500MHD integrated graphics are a step up from what we've seen before, sure, but they really suffer when attempting to play a reasonably old OpenGL title at a low resolution and medium-quality settings. The situation, as you would expect, is even worse at 1,366x768. You'd need to specify the Mobility Radeon HD 4330 if gaming ambitions exceed playing Solitaire.
| Battery-life with FLV Player looping HEXUS.tv Flash clip | ||
|---|---|---|
| Acer Timeline 5810 (battery) | HP Pavilion dv2 (battery) | MSI Wind (battery) |
| 277 | 73 | 131 |
Yet integrated graphics and a low-power CPU/chipset do bear fruit with respect to battery life. Placed in power-saving mode with screen brightness set to 50 per cent, the 5810T manages over six hours of regular Internet surfing and over four hours of high-definition video playback before running out of juice.
