Acer 8006 LMi or Acer 1714SMi

I wonder if anyone out there can help me?

Does anyone know which is the better notebook?

I have just bought the Acer 1714SMi but had to return it because of a few issues which has made me a bit cautious about getting a replacement.

The laptop is to be used mainly for web development such as IIS, MS SQL Server, Dreamweaver, etc... but also I would like to play games such as UT2004.

Does anybody have any benchmarks to compare the Centrino 2Ghz Dothan to the Pentium 4 3.4Ghz such as AquaMark 3D as the CPU score I got on the 1714SMi was 9179 the GPU score wasn't that great with the nVidia GeForce FX Go5700.

Any help would be much appreciated.

 

Hexus.net does have a comparison of the GeForce FX Go5700 and the Mobility Radeon 9600.

http://www.hexus.net/content/reviews/review.php?dXJsX3Jldmlld19JRD03NjImdXJsX3BhZ2U9MQ==

I would guess that the Radeon 9700 would run about as fast as the Go5700 without its shader problems, but it's hard to say.


I found some benchmarks one of the initial travelmate 8000 series dothan test notebooks.

http://www.enet.com.cn/notebook/inforcenter/A20040524311082_9.html

I don't know how these scores would compare to a retail 8006lmi, but the 2.0GHz dothan seems to give about a 10% boost to performance. The Aquamark 3D CPU score would definitely be higher.

Dothan 1.8Ghz Acer Travelmate 8000
PC Mark 04
CPU 3506
Memory 2847
Graphic 1814*
Super PI
1M 43s
4M 3m58s
3DMark 2001SE
1024 x 768@ Default 10389*
Aquamark
GFX 2553*
CPU 9421*
Mobile Mark 2002
Performance Rating - 196
Battary Life Rating - 187mins
Battery 1 Capacity: - 62600 mWh

SiSoftware Sandra
ALU 6827
FPU 2496/3345
Int 16436
Float 19702

I can also tell you that my 8006lmi is freakin awesome. I'm sure at some point a notebook with half the weight and four times the battery life would come in handy too.

Acer Travelmate 8006LMi
Intel Pentium M 755 2.0GHz
512Mb PC2700 RAM
80GB 5400RPM HD
4x Super Multi Write Plus (DVD+/-RW) Drive
15.0" SXGA+ TFT LCD
ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 128Mb DDR GPU
Intel 802.11b/g WLAN, Bluetooth, Gigabit LAN, V.92 Modem

 

Thanks for the info, it is much appreciated. Could you please tell me if your hard drive has a habbit of powering down when you are using it.

It's just I just had to return my Acer 1714SMi because the system kept pausing/hanging then would resume once the hard drive spinned back into life which was really annoying. Have you experience any hiccups with your system at all?

Is the drive really a 5400 rpm and not a 7200, I'm very supprised at that.

Could you please tell me what the size and type of memory is, because I am getting mixed views. The memory in the 1714 was desktop ddr333, I would have probably popped in my 1gb of Cosair if it wasn't for the welded on heatsinks which meant there was no room.

I would love to purchase 1gb of high performance ram straight away if there is any out there to buy.

Regards,
Gary Sheldon
Iglooweb Ltd

 

I haven't had any problems with the hard drive turning on and off. It does turn off automatically when I haven't used the it for like half an hour, but it starts up again in like five seconds.
I just found out that the hard drive is actually 4200RPM. That's standard for a laptop size hard drive.
The memory is laptop sodimm ddr333. Only one of them is removable, however. I think you have to get a special acer replacement part to upgrade the other one. That's the only thing I don't really like about my laptop. You could get a single 512Mb stick for about $100 or a 1024Mb one for $300 which would put it at 768 or 1280Mb total respectively. I don't know if there is any specified high performance ram for laptops. They are mostly CAS Latency 2.5.

Acer Travelmate 8006LMi
Intel Pentium M 755 2.0GHz
512Mb PC2700 RAM
80GB 5400RPM HD
4x Super Multi Write Plus (DVD+/-RW) Drive
15.0" SXGA+ TFT LCD
ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 128Mb DDR GPU
Intel 802.11b/g WLAN, Bluetooth, Gigabit LAN, V.92 Modem

 

Thanks for that, but I am still stuck, decisions, decisions.

Centrino 2Ghz vs Pentium 4 3.4Ghz

ATi Radeon 9700 Mobility vs nVidia GeForce FX Go5700

512Mb vs 1Gb

80Gb 4200 vs 120Gb 7200

15" vs 17"

Mind you when you put in a list like that I think its clear as crystal unless somebody out there knows different.

Regards,
Gary Sheldon
Iglooweb Ltd

 

I also forgot that the Intel 865G chipset supports dual channel memory and because the 1714 can take ddr333/ddr400 184 pin memory it should be a lot easier to get compatible high performance ddr400 memory.

Regards,
Gary Sheldon
Iglooweb Ltd