13. Quake 3 Arena

The picture we see here is not much different than the 3DMark results. Compaq's Presario notebook with VIA's KN133 chipset is simply not fit to run 3D-games. The two high-end notebook graphics chips ATi Mobility Radeon 7500 and NVIDIA GeForce4Go 440 in the Dell notebooks are of course leaving everything else far behind. For people who want to have full 3D-gaming capabilities on their notebooks, these solutions are the right choice. However, ATi's integrated 3D-solution Radeon IGP320M is still scoring well enough to play Quake 3 Arena at this screen resolution and color depth, and if the frame rate should be too low for you, you can always switch to 16-bit color, or reduce the screen resolution a bit. Radeon IGP might not be a full-blown 3D gaming solution, but it certainly allows 3D gaming at a pretty reasonable level.

Battery Rundown Tests

This is a review about notebook technology, so it is of highest importance to see how good the power saving features of those notebooks are. I used Batterymark, because it is today's standard, even though I am not sure about its relevance. Additionally, I also ran a DVD-playback battery rundown test, as many of us use our notebooks as a simple DVD player, at one occasion or another. Often we do not have AC power available to us at that time.