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Two Office Notebooks: ASUS M6B00N and Acer TravelMate 803 LCi (page 8)

Category: Mobile

by Galina Sudareva

[ 08/31/2004 | 11:43 AM ]

The ASUS M6B00N remains the graphics leader in Unreal Tournament 2003. It outperforms the Acer TravelMate 803 LCi by 17% in antalus, by 37% in citadel and by 35% in flyby scenes.

The same numbers, but represented as diagrams:

Then we tested the notebooks in Quake 3 with two graphics quality presets:

• 640x480; 16 bit; Lighting:Vertex; Detail:Low; Texture Quality:16 bit; Texture Filter:Bilinear;
• 1024x768; 32 bit; Lighting:Lightmap; Detail:High; Texture Quality:32 bit; Texture Filter:Trilinear.

Surprisingly, the Acer is 4% better than the ASUS in the first mode, but the latter regains its leadership with the second preset:

And diagrams:

So, you can play games on these notebooks. The TravelMate 803 LCi won’t run modern DirectX 9 games smoothly, though. On the other hand, I consider it as a good office machine, and you don’t make your office computer into a gaming station, do you?