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Acer Ferrari 1000 ZH3 Notebook

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Last month, we reviewed the the Asus VX3, a notebook officially licensed by

Lamborghini. The smoking hot yellow design, an insanely expensive price tag and

the neck breaking high performance were some of its key features. And after

Lamborghini's raging bull, it's Ferrari's prancing horse dressed as an Acer

that's been put to test this time. Powered by the AMD Turion X2 processor, the

Acer notebook is slim and lightweight. The notebook's looks though are somewhat

boring and share nothing with the super fast and super expensive sports cars

that Ferrari makes.

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It disappoints with features as well. For starters, it doesn't have an

optical drive on board but comes with an external one. There is no fingerprint

reader as an additional security feature. Connectivity ports include USB 2.0,

VGA and a FireWire 400 but ports like HDMI and DVI are missing. The notebook has

a dock connector for plugging it into a docking station and also a rotating

webcam. The ZH3 is easy to use as it has intelligently placed keys and a big

enough and responsive touch pad. Though the ZH3 has a powerful processor and

dedicated graphics from ATI, it has only 1 GB of RAM. The PC Mark 05 score on

this notebook was 3083, which is just about average. The 3D Mark score was even

worse at 151. The notebook comes with two battery options: 4-cell and the bigger

6-cell. The 4-cell battery died at a mere 47 minutes whereas the six cell

battery extended it to 2 hours and 19 minutes.

Price: On request



Key Specs: AMD Turion X2 @2.0GHz, 160GB HDD, 1GB RAM, FireWire 400, 3
USB 2.0 ports, MMC, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth. 1.3 MP rotating Webcam.



Contact: Acer India


www.acer.co.in


email:
allintouch_blr@acer.co.in




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Bottom Line: Average looks, performance and features at

a higher than average price. You sure have better options!

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