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Thursday, August 17, 2006
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The 1000 is a new ultra-portable model and with the supplied 6-cell battery weighs in at 1.75Kg ? not super light but not bad. However, when you realise that the DVD-ROM drive is not integrated ? it?s less impressive. When you consider that the likes of the Sony TX series and the Samsung Q35 are both ultra-light yet integrate an optical drive into their small chassis then alarm bells start to ring. Getting straight to the heart of the matter (or should that be heat of the matter), the reason is the choice processor. The 2GHz AMD Turion X2 ML-60 is AMD?s fastest dual-core mobile processor and as we?ll see it does offer impressive performance. However, the Thermal Design Power (TDP) is a hefty 35W compared to 31W for the competing Intel Core Duo. This is the most likely reason that Acer wasn?t able to fit an optical drive inside the chassis ? there wouldn?t have been enough room to cool the chip. An alternative would have been to use a slower processor but then Acer would hardly have been able to brand this as a Ferrari notebook.
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