Acer Ferrari 1000

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Reviews for the Acer Ferrari 1000

Im Zeichen des Pferdes
Source: Plugged
Neben den griffigen Oberflächen tat Acer alles dafür, dass auch das Handling der Computerferraris ähnlich unmittelbar und knackig ist wie das der Autos.
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Ergonomie gut
Single Review, , Length Unknown, Date: 02/20/2007
Rating: ergonomy: 80%

70% Acer Ferrari 1000 12-inch
Source: Laptop Logic
The Acer Ferrari 1000 is stylish, loaded with features and accessories, and is plenty fast thanks to the AMD dual core processor. Outside of these three accolades, how does one recommend the Ferrari 1000? It is heavy for the 12” ultraportable category, battery life is unimpressive, and the optical drive is external (which could be a pro or con). Gamers need not look this way, due to the meager integrated graphics that you come to expect with a 12” form factor. With an MSRP of $1999 and a one year warranty, the Ferrari 1000 is rather pricey for student and home users, while lacking in other areas for more pricey business users.
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(von 5): 3.5, Leistung 3, Ausstattung 4, Mobilität 3
Single Review, , Length Unknown, Date: 01/24/2007
Rating: Total score: 70% performance: 60% features: 80% mobility: 60%

70% Acer Ferrari 1000 Series
Source: PC Mag
The Acer Ferrari 4000 Series is destined to become a popular laptop, with its celebrated Ferrari emblem and race-car design. It's a bit big for frequent travelers, though, and in order for Acer's Ferrari notebooks to count as a full line, there had to be another system. Just like Batman had Robin, the Ferrari 4000 now has a sidekick, and the new guy's got mobility in mind. The ultraportable Acer Ferrari 1000 Series ($1,999 list) gives new meaning to the term "carry-on," as it weighs a scant 3.5 pounds. It's also got a pretty fast engine, which we tech geeks refer to as an AMD Turion 64 X2 processor.
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3.5 von 5
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 10/31/2006
Rating: Total score: 70%

70% Acer Ferrari 1000
Source: Trusted Reviews
The Acer Ferrari 1000 is a very attractive package that manages to wear the Ferrari badge with pride due to the brute force approach of an AMD Turion X2 ML-60. The sleek style of the Ferrari 1000 certainly has a lot of appeal but you’ll have to put up with an external optical drive, which seems a step backwards when Intel based rivals can integrate one yet are even lighter. But while you might be able to cope with that, the lack of battery life in an ultra-portable is a flaw that could prove harder to ignore.
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(von 10): 7, Preis/Leistung 6, Leistung 8, Ausstattung 8
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 08/16/2006
Rating: Total score: 70% price: 60% performance: 80% features: 80%

Foreign Reviews

87% "Notebooks für alle" - Business
Source: PC Games Hardware - 10/07
, Length Unknown, Date: 09/05/2007
Rating: Total score: 87% price: 50% workmanship: 80%

83% DX-Notebooks
Source: PC Games Hardware
, Length Unknown, Date: 07/01/2007
Rating: Total score: 83% performance: 50% mobility: 80%

Edles Vollblut
Source: mobile Zeit
, Length Unknown, Date: 02/20/2007
Rating: price: 80% features: 95% workmanship: 95%

The Acer Ferrari 1000 is certainly a good-looking machine. But is it backing the wrong processing horse?
Source: PC Plus
online available, Short, Date: 11/16/2006
Rating: performance: 70% workmanship: 90%

Comment

ATI Radeon Xpress 1150: Faster clocked Xpress 1100 onboard graphics card with x300 core. Should run Vista Aero Glass fluently.

Only older games can be played fluently with these graphics chips (if they were not too demanding). Shared memory graphic cores in this category got the advantage of less heat production and longer battery runtimes. For office, internet, image processing, and video editing tasks these graphics chips are still useable without any restrictions.

AMD Turion 64 X2: AMD Turion 64 X2 is intended to be positioned against the Intel Core Duo was presented in 17. May 2006. The current consumption is not higher than with Centrino-Duo-notebooks (TL-45 with ATI Xpress and Mobility Radeon X300). This means, that approximative the same battery runtime and fan functions can be expected (with this chipset). However, the performance was 20% below the T2300 (1.66 GHz) due to the lower L2 Cache (Core Duo has 2048 Kbyte shared L2 Cache). Nevertheless, the performance is sufficient.

TL-60:
>> Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.

12.1": This is the most common display format for subnotebooks and an average size for subnotebooks.
The advantage is, that the subnotebook can be small dimensioned and can be carried easily. Further the tiny display has the advantage, that it needs less power, which improves the battery runtime and in consequence the mobility. The disadvantage is that reading of texts is very exhausting vor the eyes. High resolutions can hardly be used.
>> To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.

1.8 kg: These sub-notebooks weight less than the average of all notebooks, but represent a heavier class of weight among the sub-notebooks. 12 inch displays are normal for this class of weight.

Acer: Acer is one of the international manufacturers with the most market shares worldwide and the most reviewed notebook models in the German and English speaking countries. Nevertheless only few of the models achieved top rankings according total ranking and price/value evaluation.

Acer reviews

76%: This rating is not convincing. It must be considered, that there exist hardly any laptops, which receive a rating below 60%. This notebook is evaluated below average, this is not really a recommendation for purchase.

>> Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.