Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Test: Netbook at Aldi Medion Akoya E1226 (MD 98 570)

The Akoya E1226 puts the Intel Atom processor N455, the computational core at 1.66 GHz clock speed running. That's enough for working with office applications and for surfing the Internet, for computationally intensive tasks like video editing or image processing is too slow. Like most of the Akoya E1226 is not graphically complex 3D games are suitable.

In the integrated graphics chip Intel GMA 3150 has no own memory, calculates an average of only one picture per second. This action games run smoothly, around 40 frames per second are necessary. The LED screen of the Akoya has a glossy surface that reflects strong. In a bright environment reflections interfere with the work.


After all, the display offers a bright, high contrast image. The resolution of 1024x600 pixels is typical netbook. The built-in memory provides about 230, the RAM, the usual size for netbooks today of one gigabyte. For Windows 7, the pre-installed programs (Microsoft Office Starter 2010, Ashampoo Burning Studio 9.23, Corel Draw Essentials 14.2, Photo Paint Essentials 14.2) and the graphics chip reaches this maximum two gigabytes of memory to fit into the netbook, because it has only one slot, must make way for an upgrade of the installed memory modules.

If you just briefly to retrieve his e-mails, read news on the Internet or listening will need Windows to not load with Medion fastboot start within seconds a mini operating system. For wireless communication with mobile Bluetooth 3.0 is onboard. Also, a network connection (LAN) and fast wireless internet access are installed.

Problems in the test makes the USB 3.0 socket: In some cases, does not recognize the Akoya external USB 3.0 hard drives. According to Medion is the latest to launch on 3 March a driver update in ready. The battery lasts for four and a half hours of work in video, there are still a few more minutes.

After only a little over two hours on the charger, it is full again. The Mouse is reliable and accurate. Slightly notchy: The touchpad is indeed operated with two fingers, such as zoom image content, because of the small area but this is tedious. The hinge-life test of the netbook is without injuries: Even after 21,000 repeated opening and closing the screen lid, there are no errors.

When liquid test it falls through. The Akoya E1226 has the following connection options: 2.0, USB 3.0 (100 Mbit), VGA, headphone, microphone. Thanks to the flatter the batteries Aldi Medion Akoya E1226 netbook is more manageable than its predecessor. The lightweight netbook has on battery power by long and has a great features: 230-gigabyte hard drive, fast wireless internet in the n-standard, USB 3.0, Bluetooth.

Compute-intensive tasks or complex games are not up to mini-notebooks in general. For office programs and trips to the internet reaches the speed of the Aldi netbooks, but other computing Minis bit faster.
Work rate and endurance are okay. With the extra GPU trumps the unit with an above-average pace for netbooks games.

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