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Business laptop winner

Acer Aspire 4810T

Acer Aspire 4810T

Verdict

Nondescript looks and plodding performance are elevated by absolutely stunning battery life

Review Date: 15 May 2009

Price when reviewed: £652

Full review

Overall Rating
5 stars out of 6

Alternative products

Lenovo ThinkPad T500

Lenovo ThinkPad T500

All work and no play makes the Lenovo a happy laptop indeed. A business classic

Full review

Lenovo ThinkPad T500

Lenovo ThinkPad T500

A real prizefighter of a laptop: powerful, well-built and reasonably mobile too.

Full review

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Comparison

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Acer Aspire 4810T

Acer Aspire 4810T

Lenovo ThinkPad T500

Lenovo ThinkPad T500

Lenovo ThinkPad T500

Lenovo ThinkPad T500
Details
Part Code Aspire 4810T NL37RUK NJ252UK
Review Date 15 May 2009 9 Sep 2009 28 Nov 2008
Price ex VAT £652 £817 £989
Price inc VAT £750 £940 £1,137
Overall rating 5 stars out of 6 5 stars out of 6 5 stars out of 6
Features & Design 5 stars out of 6 6 stars out of 6
Value for Money 5 stars out of 6 5 stars out of 6
Performance 3 stars out of 6 5 stars out of 6
Warranty
Warranty final 1 yr return to base 3 yr return to base 3 year(s) return to base
Physical specifications
Dimensions 338 x 240 x 29mm (WDH) 358 x 256 x 37mm (WDH) 358 x 255 x 34mm (WDH)
Weight 1.950kg 2.590kg 2.600kg
Travelling weight 3.0kg
Processor and memory
Processor Intel Core 2 Duo SU9400 Intel Core 2 Duo P8400 Intel Core 2 Duo P8600
Motherboard chipset Intel GM45/47
RAM capacity 3.00GB 2.00GB 2.00GB
Memory type DDR2 DDR3 DDR3
SODIMM sockets free 1
SODIMM sockets total 2
Screen and video
Screen size 14.0in 15.4in 15.4in
Resolution screen horizontal 1,366 1,280 1,680
Resolution screen vertical 768 800 1,050
Resolution 1366 x 768 1280 x 800 1680 x 1050
Graphics chipset Intel GMA 4500 Intel GMA 4500MHD Intel GMA X4500MHD
Graphics card RAM 256MB 32MB
VGA (D-SUB) outputs 1 1 1
HDMI outputs 1 0 0
S-Video outputs 0 0 0
DVI-I outputs 0 0 0
DVI-D outputs 0 0 0
DisplayPort outputs 0 1 1
Drives
Capacity 320GB 250GB 160GB
Hard disk usable capacity 298GB 233GB
Spindle speed 5,400RPM 5,400RPM
Internal disk interface SATA SATA/300
Hard disk Seagate Momentus 5400.4
Optical disc technology DVD writer DVD writer DVD writer
Optical drive Matshita UJ862A
Battery capacity 5,300mAh
Replacement battery price inc VAT £0 £0 £0
Networking
Wired adapter speed 1,000Mbits/sec 1,000Mbits/sec 1,000Mbits/sec
802.11a support yes no yes
802.11b support yes yes yes
802.11g support yes yes yes
802.11 draft-n support yes yes yes
Integrated 3G adapter no no yes
Other Features
Wireless hardware on/off switch yes
Wireless key-combination switch yes yes
Modem no yes
ExpressCard34 slots 0 0 0
ExpressCard54 slots 0 1 1
PC Card slots 0 1 1
USB ports (downstream) 3 3 3
FireWire ports 1
PS/2 mouse port no no no
9-pin serial ports 0 Fail 0
Parallel ports 0 Fail 0
Optical S/PDIF audio output ports 0 1 0
Electrical S/PDIF audio ports 0 0 0
3.5mm audio jacks 2 2
SD card reader yes yes
Memory Stick reader yes yes
MMC (multimedia card) reader yes
Smart Media reader no
Compact Flash reader no no
xD-card reader yes yes
Pointing device type Touchpad Touchpad, trackpoint Touchpad, trackpoint
Audio chipset Conexant HD Audio
Speaker location Above keyboard Above keyboard Above keyboard
Hardware volume control? no no
Integrated microphone? yes yes yes
Integrated webcam? yes yes yes
Camera megapixel rating 1.3mp
TPM no yes yes
Fingerprint reader no yes yes
Smartcard reader no
Carry case no
Operating system and software
OS family Windows Vista Windows Vista Windows Vista
Recovery method Recovery partition, burn own recovery discs
Software supplied Lenovo ThinkVantage suite, Microsoft Windows XP Professional downgrade disc
Battery and performance tests
Battery life, light use 532 7hr 53min 340
Battery life, heavy use 192 1hr 38min 82
Overall application benchmark score 0.75 1.15 1.19
Office application benchmark score 0.80 1.23 1.27
2D graphics application benchmark score 0.86 1.22 1.28
Encoding application benchmark score 0.66 1.01 1.07
Multitasking application benchmark score 0.69 1.12 1.16
3D performance (crysis) low settings 5fps Fail
3D performance setting Low N/A
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