ASUS E410 review – battles the impracticality of affordable notebooks

Temperatures and comfort, Battery Life

Max CPU load

In this test we use 100% on the CPU cores, monitoring their frequencies and chip temperature. The first column shows a computer’s reaction to a short load (2-10 seconds), the second column simulates a serious task (between 15 and 30 seconds), and the third column is a good indicator of how good the laptop is for long loads such as video rendering.

Average core frequency (base frequency + X); CPU temp.

As you can imagine, 7W of power is not a big strain on the cooling. However, the ASUS E410 shows considerably worse performance than the Acer Aspire 3 (A315-35). Especially in terms of temperatures, where it works at 20°C higher, with a 430MHz lower clock.

Comfort during full load

Obviously, the lack of a fan means that the notebook is completely silent. Furthermore, the warmest spot on the keyboard never exceeds 40°C.

Battery

Now, we conduct the battery tests with the Windows Better performance setting turned on, screen brightness adjusted to 120 nits and all other programs turned off except for the one we are testing the notebook with. This device’s 42Wh battery pack lasts for 7 hours and 20 minutes of Web browsing, or 5 hours and 55 minutes of video playback.

Video playback

Brightness: 180 nits; Display Mode: SDR
Time to Full Discharge: Higher is Better

ASUS E410 42Wh, 3-cell

5h 37m

Acer Aspire 3 36.7Wh, 2-cell

6h 09m+9.5%

Lenovo IdeaPad 1 14 32Wh, 2-cell

10h 09m+80.7%

Acer Aspire 1 4810 mAh, 2-cell

8h 37m+53.4%

Web surfing

In order to simulate real-life conditions, we used our own script for automatic web browsing through over 70 websites.

ASUS E410 42Wh, 3-cell

7h 20m

Acer Aspire 3 36.7Wh, 2-cell

8h 09m+11.1%

Lenovo IdeaPad 1 14 32Wh, 2-cell

10h 25m+42%

Acer Aspire 1 4810 mAh, 2-cell

8h 35m+17%

Author: Alex Iliev

Author: eng. Kroum NikolovHead of Engineering at LaptopMedia.com, inventor and innovator with 40+ years of experience in electronics and high technology.

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