Acer 3810T - Manual (Page 2)

2 Principled Technologies, Inc.: Battery life performance ratings
of two Acer Aspire Timeline 13.3” notebook systems
As Figures 3 shows, the battery with which
these notebooks produced these scores is
standard size; the notebook case fully contains
the battery.
Workload
Our goal was to see how long the Acer Aspire
Timeline notebook battery would last running
BAPCo’s MobileMark 2007 Productivity 2007
battery life benchmark test. MobileMark 2007 is
an industry-standard benchmark BAPCo
created to measure system battery life and
performance.
MobileMark 2007 Productivity 2007 consists of
the following applications and corresponding
tasks: Microsoft Project 2003 (project
management), Microsoft Excel 2003 (calculation
sheets), Microsoft Outlook 2003 (emails,
calendars, scheduler), Microsoft PowerPoint
2003 (slide presentations), Microsoft Word 2003
(formatted text documents), WinZip Computing
and WinZip Pro 10.0 (compressed archives),
Adobe Photoshop CS2 (manipulated and
compressed images), Adobe Illustrator CS2
(manipulated images), and Adobe Flash 8
(vector graphics, animation).
MobileMark 2007 measures system battery life
in minutes. MobileMark 2007 records system
battery life at the start of the Productivity 2007 benchmark, and repeats the benchmark workload until the system
battery life is depleted, or until the notebook system powers down due to low battery life. At the seven percent
battery life setting, MobileMark 2007 records a timestamp once per minute. At the end of the benchmark, it
compares the beginning timestamp to the final (last recorded) timestamp. MobileMark 2007 derives its system
battery life rating as the number of minutes between the start and end timestamps.
We followed the run rules that MobileMark 2007 specifies here:
http://www.bapco.com/support/mobilemark2007/Manual/rules.html .
Test results
Figure 4 presents the MobileMark 2007 Productivity 2007 median battery life rating for the two Acer Aspire
Timeline notebook systems. We conducted one conditioning run followed by three Official MobileMark 2007
Productivity 2007 runs for each machine. (Complete test results appear in Appendix B.) Higher scores indicate
better system performance.
Acer Aspire Timeline 3810T
(67 nits)
Acer Aspire Timeline 3810TZ
(69 nits)
MobileMark 2007 Productivity 2007
Battery life score
(hours:minutes)
9:07 9:48
Figure 4: MobileMark 2007 Productivity 2007 scores for the two Acer Aspire Timeline notebook systems we tested. Higher
numbers are better.
Figure 3: Alternate view of the Acer Aspire Timeline 3810 notebook
systems. The notebook case—identical for both the 3810T and 3810TZ
models—fully contains the battery.