Source: Tom's Guide | Keywords: multimedia, video, notebooks | Themes: Business Notebooks
9. Sysmark 2007 Results
Sysmark is an application-based benchmark that’s designed to mimic usage patterns for business users who require PCs to get real work done. It runs the PCs on which it is installed through a series of tasks that include video creation, e-learning, 3D modeling and office productivity applications. The executable embeds special encrypted versions of real-world applications (to avoid license abuse) that include PhotoShop, WinZip, MS Office and more (see the Sysmark 2007 white paper, section 2.2, for a complete list of what’s used for each scenario). The intent is to create a workload that’s as realistic as possible. The geometric mean of the four scenario scores is calculated to provide the overall score, rounded to the nearest integer value.
The overall Sysmark scores produce the following ranking:
Except for the Asus, all of the other notebooks fall in a fairly narrow 12-point range (between 8%and 9% of the base value). A score of 100 on Sysmark 2007 is intended to match the system used to calibrate the workload: an Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 (1.86 GHz) with 1 GB RAM running pre-SP1 Vista with a 7100 GS video card. Given that the Sony beat the Eurocom overall, we have to speculate that the workloads didn’t exercise the quad-core system as heavily as it might have.
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It's a shame Tomsguide did not use the Acer 8930g for review - it comes with many more improvements including esata, faster dual core CPU and Nvidia 9700 GT. Given it's competative price I think it blows all of the other laptops out of the water...
once again, we see crazily dismal battery life... Did manufacturers forget that when the battery dies you get NO features and NO performance for your money? These things can barely play a DVD!! some of them have shorter than 1 DVD battery life -- which is inexplicable in a multimedia computer. Here is a little hint, if you are going to save weight, don't save weight on the battery just because it will still run. Battery life is everything. 4 hours would be nice. If you add features, it needs a bigger battery.