16. 3DMark 2001

The 3D Mark 2001 tests showed an interesting story, while it is evident that the GeForce4 Go does have a bit of an edge on this test. The test unit was able to beat the A31p by a margin of 377, which indicates that it does have a small performance edge. The Dell Inspiron 8100 trails the pack by a margin of almost 1000, which is significant. We see about the same results for PowerMizer again in these tests. It is obvious that if you are using something that requires GPU processing power, then using PowerMizer really cuts down the performance.

Lightwave And The Skull_Head_Newest.LWS

We have used Lightwave and the Skull_Head_Newest.LWS test for some time. We thought it might be a good idea to try to get an estimate of the processing power of the Pentium 4m between the test system and the A31p. We felt that this intensive test might give us an overall indication of how much processing performance there really is between the three platforms. Here, the test unit and the A31p were about equal, which is what we would have expected on this test. The edge here went to the A31p, but, again, the results of this test were almost too close to call. The PowerMizer results told another story altogether on this test. If these are the kind of applications that you are running on your notebook, for a small performance hit, using PowerMizer can help extend your battery life.