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Acer Ferrari One Netbook - Vroom Vroom Review

By Aloysius Low - 6 Nov 2009

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Performance has always been an issue with netbooks, but AMD's Congo should have no problems scoring much better than the usual Intel Atom machines despite the lower clock speed. With a dual-core AMD Athlon X2 L310 (1.2GHz) processor, 4GB DDR2 RAM, a 500GB HDD and better graphics in the form of the integrated ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3200 meant that this was a netbook to be reckoned with. Furthermore, thanks to netbooks finally moving on to Windows 7, we were also able to run PCMark Vantage in addition to our usual PCMark05 and 3DMark06 benchmarks.

The results show that, while it's not as powerful as Intel's CULV processor platform, it still has a leg up over Intel's Atom processors. It also does better than its older Yukon platform, but of course, that's a given. The decent 3D performance also means that despite is modest form factor, you will be able indulge in light gaming (heck, we tested Torchlight and found that it ran pretty decent on this netbook). And if you're wondering about the higher scoring HP Pavilion dv2, note that the dv2 uses a much more powerful discrete graphics while the Acer Ferrari One relies on its integrated graphics, hence the difference in scores.

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