Business Winstone 2004 and Multimedia Content Creation Winstone 2004 serve to test the systems performance in office and multimedia applications. During these tests we obtained the following results:

Well, these results are pretty sufficient to ensure comfortable work in applications of this type. Note however, that Acer turns out a little bit slower in Business Winstone (3% slower in Battery mode and up to 10% slower in AC/DC mode), while in Multimedia Content Creation Winstone the results are almost the same (3201XCi manages to turn out 1% faster). This performance difference can actually be explained by the influence of a few factors: different mainboard chipsets, slightly different graphics controllers and HDDs with different spindle rotation speeds. For a more illustrative picture here are the diagrams based on the results given in the tables above:

In the gaming tests the results are also not bad at all (you should pay special attention to these data because it is the focus of our entire test session: both testing participants have similar configuration, but different graphics controllers). The tests in Quake3 were carried out in two image quality modes:

• 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: Tri-linear.

Note that in the first case Acer TravelMate 3201XCi using the ATI RADEON Mobility 9700 graphics solution appears only about 2% faster than ASUS W1B00Na. Well, this is not such a big difference, but it can be easily explained by the fact that most workload is laid upon the entire system as a whole, and the overall systems configurations are pretty similar, as I have already mentioned. In the second case, when the graphics subsystems bear most of the workload, the performance gap in Acer’s favor grows somewhat bigger and makes 6%. The more detailed results follow:

And here are the diagrams: