The benchmarking results in Unreal Tournament 2004 can’t say anything new: the TravelMate 803LCi remains the leader of course (75%, 86% and 74% faster than the 6003LCi in botmatch-antalus, botmatch-citadel and flyby-asbestos tests, respectively). The results follow:

So, my gaming tests suggest that you can only run DirectX 9.0 games on the TravelMate 803LCi notebook with any comfort; the 6003LCi doesn’t suit for gaming much.

Next, I measured the battery run-down time with the help of Battery Eater Pro 2.23 (the Reader’s test has changed since version 2.22 – scrolling is performed each 15 seconds by page rather than by line; the CPU load is different too – it is now calculating the pi number with a definite precision).

I performed my tests at the highest and lowest screen brightness settings, and in three test modes:

• Classical – the system bears the maximum load;
• Reader’s test;
• DVD watch test.

The results of the test are listed below:

Thus, at the Acer TravelMate 803LCi lasts as long as over 3 hours in the classical test mode, slightly less than 4 hours in the reader’s mode, and over 3 hours in the DVD watch mode. The 6003LCi model works about 3.5 hours in the classic mode, over 4 hours in the reader’s mode and 2.5 hours in the DVD watch mode.

You can get a nice battery life bonus by reducing the brightness of the notebook’s screen. At the minimal brightness it is even possible to read text, for example. However, this mode doesn’t suit for watching DVD movies since the colors and the contrast worsen too much.

So, you get the following bonus by reducing the screen brightness to its minimum:

• Acer TravelMate 803LCi: 31 minutes in the classic mode, 46 minutes in the reader’s mode;
• Acer TravelMate 6003LCi: 47 minutes in the classic mode, 54 minutes in the reader’s mode.