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Acer TravelMate TM8104 Intel Pentium M 750 1.86GHz TM8104WLMi Notebook

Monday, November 14th, 2005 | Laptop and Notebook Computers, Reviews

The Acer TravelMate TM8104 is in the Company’s performance series. It’s big but sleek design give it a look of good qualities in terms of performance, without giving making it too heavy for travelling with.

The TravelMate 8100 provides practically everything for those on the move. The computer is powerful enough that you actually don’t need to have a desktop computer for when your laptop is not in use. It’s fast and powerful features make it a potential complete replacement for your desktop computer.

Some of it’s more notable features include…

• Fast Intel Centrino chip
• 512MB of DDR2 memory
• Built-in card reader
• DVD burner
• Dedicated ATI Radeon Mobility X700 Graphics chip with 128MB RAM
• Intergrated Wireless LAN, modem and LAN
• Big 15.4inch monitor

This notebook is based on “Sonoma” platform. It boasts a 1.86 Intel Centrino CPU which provides ample power for notebook uses and is a low power cosumer, allowing longer battery running times.

The platform allows for the use of DDR2 memory which is faster so giving extra performance. 512MB should be fine for most uses, but it is possible to upgrade to more if needed.

As many of the extras as possible have been located at the front of the computer, which makes it very accessible. Two backlit switches for bluetooth and wireless LAN allow you to turn them on or off as you need them. This allows you to save battery life when they are off. The card reader allows you to save carrying an extra card reader with you.

The DVD burner is a great plus, and is one that is welcome on a notebook. They are becoming more common, but make laptops closer to their desktop counterparts, with this added functionality.

The very wide WSXGA monitor provides plenty of viewing area, while the Radeon Mobility graphics card allows good performance from it. It supports up to 1680 x 1050 screen resolution, which although would be very small, allows you to pack a lot of information on this laptop screen.

The inclusion of bluetooth and WLAN are fairly standard, but are cool extras to have, saving you from upgrades.

Overall there is not much lacking from this computer, it gives you everything you could need, except for multimedia buttons. Performance is great and everything else works fine. It’s not a low priced deal, but will certainly give you everything you would want.

Pros

• Big monitor
• Fast
• Plenty of extras
• DVD burner
• Light for its size

Cons

• Very large

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