Acer Travelmate P4 review: Size without compromise

Price When Reviewed

$1,359.99

A big display screen makes it simpler to work with intensive Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint displays. Multi-tasking can be simpler should you can control quite a few program home windows on the identical time. However, the show diagonal shouldn’t be on the expense of mobility – even should you solely need to take the pocket book to a gathering and don’t need to use it primarily when travelling.

The Acer Travelmate P4 with a 16-inch show guarantees to optimally mix these benefits. Its housing fabricated from an aluminum-magnesium compound within the grey-blue coloration Slate Blue presents itself within the inconspicuous customary look of many mid-range enterprise notebooks.

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Acer Travelmate P4: Build high quality

The lid might be opened with one hand, however the weight distribution shouldn’t be completely balanced as a result of the bottom of the case lifts barely. However, you’ll be able to open the display screen by 180 levels.

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Acer Travelmate P4: Strong in brightness and coloration copy

The Travelmate’s 16-inch show is primarily characterised by its giant display screen space. At 1920×1200 and a pixel density of 141 ppi, the decision shouldn’t be notably excessive, but it surely’s advantageous for workplace duties and day-to-day productiveness. The taller 16:10 side ratio makes scrolling by paperwork a lot simpler, too.

In phrases of image high quality, the Acer pocket book can compete with dearer laptops. The brightness of round 400 cd/sqm is appropriate for out of doors use due to the anti-glare floor. In battery mode, nevertheless, brightness is decrease at round 350 cd/sqm. The luminance can be evenly distributed, a bonus given the big display screen floor. The pocket book adjusts the brightness to the ambient gentle due to a sensor.

Due to the nice coloration copy with full protection of the sRGB coloration area and low coloration deviation, the Travelmate can be appropriate for picture processing within the workplace setting. The solely setback is that the distinction is simply common. Display’s in prime notebooks are a tad brighter and provide considerably higher distinction. However, regardless of the favorable worth, the image high quality is absolutely sensible for a enterprise all-rounder.

The lens of the 720p digital camera on the prime of the show body will also be coated with a slide change.

Acer Travelmate P4: Many connections, straightforward to improve

The Acer Travelmate P4 has an excellent quantity of connectivity choices. It has two Thunderbolt 4 ports with 40 Gbps and two USB Type-A ports, 10 Gbps on the left and 5 Gbps on the fitting. There’s additionally a LAN port and a micro SD card reader in an uncommon place on the entrance left of the casing.

The pocket book has an influence connection for a barrel connector, however the cable on the equipped energy adapter solely matches into one of many Type-C ports. Acer is thus complying with future authorized necessities, however nonetheless permits older energy provide models to proceed for use.

The SSD is just 512GB, which isn’t uncommon for enterprise notebooks on this worth vary. You may also swap the built-in M.2 drive for one with extra cupboard space. The RAM bar, WLAN module, and battery will also be eliminated.

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The Travelmate P4 works with an Intel Core i7 from the U household of the Raptor Lake era and achieves the standard efficiency within the velocity assessments. It subsequently fulfils the necessities of a sensible enterprise pocket book, as it is rather robust in workplace use and affords sufficient computing energy for many multimedia duties. It’s solely too gradual for graphics-intensive video games and complicated picture/video enhancing.

It units itself other than comparably geared up notebooks in workplace purposes primarily due to its quick SSD from WD, which outperforms different 512 GB SSDs in each sequential switch charges and within the PC Mark 10 storage check.

In multimedia purposes, the Travelmate’s giant casing proves to be a bonus over smaller notebooks with the identical CPU. Because the waste warmth is healthier distributed, the processor can run longer with increased energy consumption and clock price. In Cinebench R23, this leads to a lead of round 15 p.c over a 14-inch pocket book with the Core i7-1355U.

Compared to notebooks with a Core i7 Raptor Lake-P, which has two extra P-cores, the Travelmate performs round ten p.c worse when excessive CPU efficiency is required. The deficit in comparison with multimedia notebooks with a GPU may be very important at over 20 p.c.

The working noise underneath load is 42 dB(A). The fan is clearly audible in quiet environment, however not so loud that it disturbs working. There are additionally no anomalies within the warmth measurement. The Acer pocket book reaches an uncritical 43 levels on the hottest level on the underside.

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Acer Travelmate P4: A smart stability of endurance and weight

The Travelmate weighs just below 3.74 kilos, which is okay for a 16-inch pocket book and qualifies it for infrequent cellular use. If you need to use your 16-inch pocket book extra typically on the transfer than at your desk, there are higher options such because the Samsung Galaxy Book 3 Pro 16.

The Travelmate achieves just below 16 hours in our battery check, an ideal efficiency contemplating the comparatively small 56 Wh battery. It’s recharged to 82 p.c after one hour on the socket.

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Acer Travelmate P4: Size wins over ergonomics

The keyboard and touchpad primarily impress with their measurement quite than their excellent ergonomics. The 16-inch kind issue permits Acer to put in an extra quantity pad and its keys are considerably narrower than these in the principle keyboard. The key format is standardized, however as with most laptops, the arrow keys will not be offset and the up6 and down keys are smaller.

The sturdy keyboard has a good strain level and good journey, however shouldn’t be completely quiet when typing rapidly. The bouncing area bar and the noticeably weaker strain level of the Enter key are additionally annoying.

The giant touchpad shouldn’t be put in utterly evenly, which ends up in a loud mouse clicking noise, particularly on the right-hand aspect. In addition, it’s a must to press the touchpad firmly to click on the mouse till you’re feeling the suggestions. The floor is kind of easy, which lets you transfer your finger rapidly over the big touchpad space, however not instantly place it exactly.

Acer Travelmate P4: Test outcomes and options

This evaluation was translated from German to English and initially appeared on pcwelt.de.