Acer Aspire 1410: Single-Core CULV Takes on Atom
by Vivek Gowri on May 6, 2010 1:31 AM ESTAcer Aspire 1410: Battery Life
Now for the part where we usually equivocate when we recommend the CULV machines over netbooks: battery life. Performance is without fail the biggest reason we push CULV units, and the high res screen also plays a role in it. But with far better performance and a larger screen, battery life is bound to take a hit when both systems use comparably sized batteries. And take a hit it does.
In battery life testing, we see numbers far short of those put up by the CULV units with higher capacity batteries, to say nothing of the more power efficient netbooks. On average, you can expect around 2/3 the battery life of the Acer Eee 1001P (48Wh battery) and 3/4 the battery life of the 1810T (63Wh battery). I was disappointed by the 1410's showing, especially compared to the dual-core CULV machines, However, in the relative metric all of the CULV laptops are quite similar, and CULV still trumps the early ION platforms. Still, the C2S SU3500 has half the TDP of the C2D SU7300, so even with a smaller battery I expected the AS1410 to be relatively competitive to the 1810T. Sadly, this is not the case. Even so, the battery life is still reasonable when evaluated on its own, with a 7 hour max life and well over 5 hours of internet browsing and light usage.
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barich - Thursday, May 6, 2010 - link
I have the 1410 with the dual-core Celeron SU2300. At $450, it's only $50 more than the reviewed single-core unit, and it's clocked at the same speed as the SU7300 in the 1810T. The only differentiating factor in the CPU is that it has less cache. I suspect that it performs much closer to the 1810T than the 1410 in this review. I don't think it can be beat for performance for the money considering the size.Roland00 - Thursday, May 6, 2010 - link
Unfortunately the 1410 with the su2300 seem to have disapeared from the market. A quick google search shows only 5 places carry them new, 2 of them have it on backorder and the other 3 are small online stores I have never seen before and don't have much google ratings and thus I wouldn't trust.Now the 1410 with the su2300 is an awesome laptop. I have the blue version with 160gb hard drive. Got it for $349+8.25% sales tax a couple of months ago.
JarredWalton - Thursday, May 6, 2010 - link
Don't forget that the Gateway EC14 is pretty much the same thing as the Acer 1410:http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtool...
SU2300 is a 1.2GHz chip, so SU4100/SU7300 as 100MHz faster and have 2x to 3x the L2 cache, but overall the SU2300 is an interesting option. When you could find those laptops for under $400, it was even more interesting.
xeopherith - Friday, May 7, 2010 - link
I just bought a nice little Asus 1201T because of this article. I was waiting for a netbook with a decent resolution and affordable price before buying. Newegg has them for 369 today.AkumaX - Saturday, May 8, 2010 - link
its too bad AT didn't have this article when the AS1410 came out in oct/nov 09 with the SU2300 (celeron) part for around $400 (forget about the celeron 743...). the differences between the SU2300 and SU3500:SU2300 vs SU3500
1.2ghz ---- 1.4ghz
1MB L2 --- 3MB L2
10w -------- 5.5w
2 CPUs --- 1 CPU
they're still both based on the Penryn arch.
which one do you think's better ;)
Probedude - Sunday, October 3, 2010 - link
I have the SU2300 version of this laptop. Since day one it will discharge the battery 5% per day when turned completely off. Tried everything, even sent it in for repair only to be told 'it's normal.'I see Acer just came out with a bios in the last couple of weeks that may fix the problem. 2 users have already said it has worked for them. I'm waiting until tomorrow to check mine.
Anyways, if you too have battery drain problems with this laptop when off, update the bios and see if it fixes the problem for you.