Source: Tom's Guide | Keywords: multimedia, video, notebooks | Themes: Business Notebooks
13. Luminance charts
What you want in a media notebook for a display is something that’s relatively bright, with even spatial uniformity and contrast distribution throughout. Although the Acer’s contrast level is low, it’s display is nothing short of astonishing and its brightness levels are likewise quite uniform. Our previous favorite, the HP HDX, splits the honors for second place with the Sony, where the Asus comes in fourth and the Eurocom last.
That said, the Eurocom’s display still fits the bill, and we found it entirely tolerable for viewing conventional 480p DVDs as well as 1080i Blu-ray discs. None of these units has a display that you’d feel compelled to replace, though all did a decent job of driving an LG 42" HDTV directly and through an AV receiver.
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It's a shame Tomsguide did not use the Acer 8930g for review - it comes with many more improvements including esata, faster dual core CPU and Nvidia 9700 GT. Given it's competative price I think it blows all of the other laptops out of the water...
once again, we see crazily dismal battery life... Did manufacturers forget that when the battery dies you get NO features and NO performance for your money? These things can barely play a DVD!! some of them have shorter than 1 DVD battery life -- which is inexplicable in a multimedia computer. Here is a little hint, if you are going to save weight, don't save weight on the battery just because it will still run. Battery life is everything. 4 hours would be nice. If you add features, it needs a bigger battery.