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Acer 6292

16 Jun, 2007, 3:00 pm IST | Gaurav Seth | Notebooks

Performance
Battery Life
The Acer 6292 comes with a 4200 mAH six cell battery. Our battery test was conducted under the moderate performance setting which was applied through the ‘e’ management console. The battery lasted for 2 hours and 13 minutes. Under the low performance setting, the battery lasted for 2 hours and 49 minutes. Battery life in general terms is above average but since it’s the first laptop based on the new platform, conclusions can only be made once we test laptops from other manufacturers based on the same form factor and using the Santa Rosa platform.

Weight
The 6292 weights 1.99 Kgs. Not as light as the Ultra-portable VAIO’s from Sony but still very portable.

Screen
The 12.1-inch wide-screen laptop has a native resolution of 1280x800 and comes with gloss screen which Acer refers to as CrystalBrite Technology. It’s basically a coating on the screen but makes the colors more vivid and the images sharper. All manufacturers offer this option and have their own proprietary name given to it. Overall we really liked the screen. It gets sufficiently bright and color reproduction is very good with very smooth gradients.

Speakers
The quality of onboard speakers is above average, though the Altec Lansing in-built speakers found on HP and Compaq laptops are better.

Graphics
The Acer 6292 comes with Intel’s latest integrated graphics accelerator, the GMA X3100. It being an onboard option one shouldn’t expect it to keep pace with the latest games. A paltry score of 520 in 3DMark 06 confirms that. Though looking at the brighter side, this chip is well equipped to smoothly run high-definition content and is an able companion to Vista's Graphic Aero interface.

Overall Performance
PCMark 2005 yielded a good score of 3840 points. Laptops equipped with a similarly clocked processor, similar memory and the previous generation chipsets (Intel 945 and Intel GMA 950) give a score of around 3000-3100 points. This confirms that the combination of an increased FSB and better on-board graphics does further the performance by a good margin.

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