• ACi Ultra Mini Tablet PC

    ACi Ultra Mini Tablet PC

    Rohan Naravane, Mar 14, 2008 1233 hrs IST

    An "ultra-mini" laptop with some decent features -- and some silly drawbacks

    Good-quality screen, 120 GB disk space, multiple input options, lightweight

    Underpowered to run the installed Windows Vista smoothly (which leads to sluggish performance), weak webcam

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Benchmarks and Analysis
The ACi Ultra Mini comes pre-loaded with Windows Vista Basic, so we'll start with the basic benchmarking tool, the Windows Experience rating.


The score is lower than that of traditional laptops because of the low-power, energy-efficient components

SiSoftware Sandra 2008


Comparatively, the processor beats the 1 GHz VIA and the 600 MHz Celeron


The processor benchmarking scores are similar to those of the 600 MHz Pentium M, because the A100 platform is derived from the Pentium M architecture


The drive index is comparable to that of a standard 2.5-inch laptop hard drive


The scores are almost 3.5 times less than those of current Core 2 Duo based solutions


Again, comparatively lower scores -- due to the on-board 512 KB of cache, while chips of today's generation have 2 and 4 MB

Note: I did try running the PCMark05 and 3DMark06 tests (according to standard procedure), but neither of them were able to produce results. But this was expected, because this machine is not meant to be benchmarked by those utilities in the first place.

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saumen roy
,contai westbengal, on Jun 17, 2010 10:24 PM
I interested product details this product
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angel
,hyderabad, on Jul 27, 2009 02:17 PM
i'm interested in this product.. may i know a bit more details of this product?
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kirtiinfotech
,ahmedabadgujarat/india, on Oct 17, 2008 07:17 PM
driver for aci tablet pc config via c3(antaur processor)
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Noel
,Vapi, on Apr 07, 2008 11:22 AM
Would like a comparison between the MiLeap V and Samsung Q1 Ultra
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Dr Arun M
,Thiruvananthapuram, on Mar 17, 2008 08:54 PM
Please review th model mileap Y and V from HCL. will be waiting for the same
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Sahil
,Mumbai, on Mar 16, 2008 12:52 AM
Pls review HCL MiLeap X and Y Series, which i think is more better then ACI Ultra Mini, and i think X series is available under Rs.15K
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Rohan Naravane
,TechTree Techabs, on Mar 16, 2008 10:48 AM
Keep watching this space and your wishes will be answered :)
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vijayshimla
,Shimla 171001, on Mar 16, 2008 10:42 AM
ACi looks like a company on verge of folding, with hardly any market share- it would be quite dicey to buy a laptop from them.
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vijayshimla
,Shimla 171001, on Mar 14, 2008 08:28 PM
This ACI UMPC has a fatal flaw, small screen !!- too much real estate is lost on sides of display -it needs a 9 inch screen a ka the Eee PC 900. Also the HDD though 120 GB will be a real slow down factor. I, like lots of other ppl will wait for the $ 499 Eee 900 PC on a new Intel Atom processor-fast 12 GB SSD drive, running fast win xp.
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Taipan
,Kangra, on Mar 15, 2008 07:15 AM
You have hit nail on head mr vijayshimla. when tested factually-this UMPC will come out virtually worthless- slow processor plus slow hard disc. ACI needs a good product adviser like you- to identify what will sell and what will not- this one is a dud.
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