Acer TravelMate 3012WTMi
Notebook Specifications
Notebook: Acer TravelMate 3012WTMiProcessor: Intel Core Duo T2300
Graphics Adapter: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950 64 MB
Display: 12.1 inch, 16:10, 1280x800 pixels
Weight: 1.6kg
Links: Acer homepage Acer notebook section
Average Score: 78.33% - good
Average of 3 scores (from 4 reviews)
mobility: - %, workmanship: - %, ergonomy: - %, emissions: - %
Reviews for the Acer TravelMate 3012WTMi
Acer TravelMate 3012WTMi Review
Source: Notebookreview.com 
The Acer Travelmate 3012WTMi is Acer's latest ultraportable notebook. According to the Acer website it is designed entirely on Acer's ambition to optimize the balance between high-performance ultraportability and superior efficiency by creating the ultimate lightweight notebook for highly-mobile professionals and dynamic businesses. Weighing just 1.5kgs, the Acer TravelMate 3010 is the first ultraportable Acer notebook to feature the latest Intel Centrino Core Duo Mobile Technology, offering maximum productivity, superior unwired freedom and ultra-connectivity to drive your business mobility into the future.
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Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 04/22/2006
83% Acer TravelMate 3012WTMi Review
Source: PC Pro
Very small and very quick, this Centrino Duo notebook is a good choice if you want dual-core power but don't want to be weighed down when on the move. If any evidence was needed of the Core Duo's flexibility, the 3012WTMi delivers: in stark contrast to the Acer TravelMate 8204WLMi, a 3kg machine that had enough grunt in both everyday applications and 3D games to equal desktop PCs, this TravelMate is all about working on the move. The Acer is exceptionally light and thin, and has a footprint almost exactly the size of an A4 sheet of paper.
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5 von 6
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 04/01/2006
Rating: Total score: 83%
Foreign Reviews
77% Rechenzwerge
Source: Connect 
online available, Short, Date: 06/01/2006
Rating: Total score: 77%
75% Acer Travelmate 3012WTMi
Source: ZDNet
online available, Short, Date: 05/09/2006
Rating: Total score: 75%
Comment
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 is an integrated (onboard) graphic chip on Mobile Intel 945GM chipset. It is a faster clocked version of the GMA 900 and supports no hardware T&L (Transform & Lightning) accelleration (which is required for some games).
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.
>> Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
Intel Core Duo: Double Core processor with a very good relation of performance to current consumption. The 2 MB L2 Cache are used together by the double. The maximum capacity of 31 watts is only 4 watts more than with the Pentium M (predecessor). Both cores are lowered automatically and independently of each other by speed steps down to 1 GHz. In addition it now supports also SSE3 instructions. At least it is just as fast as a equivalent Pentium M. With applications, which were designed for multi-processors, the performance can be nearly twice as fast as with the Pentium M (e.g. CineBench around 86% fast)
T2300:
>> 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.
1.6 kg: This sub-notebook weighs less than the average of all notebooks and represents a medium class of weight among the sub-notebooks. 11 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.
78.33%: 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.
