By
Harald Thon,
published on August 19, 2003
Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: thinkpad, g40 | Themes: Business Notebooks
Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: thinkpad, g40 | Themes: Business Notebooks
Contents
- 1. Decisions, Decisions: Notebook Or Desktop PC
- 2. The PC Halfling: The ThinkPad G40
- 3. The PC Halfling: The ThinkPad G40, Continued
- 4. Pictures Of The G40
- 5. In The Other Corner - Shuttle SB61G2
- 6. In The Other Corner - Shuttle SB61G2, Continued
- 7. Benchmarks Under Windows XP
- 8. Synthetic Benchmarks
10. Application Benchmarks
Raytracing: POV-Ray For Windows
In this discipline, the competitors render a scene (Chess2) using the raytracing program Povray. This is a very CPU-intensive task, and is scored according to the rendering time.
The desktop system just nudges ahead of its notebook opponent thanks to its faster FSB.
MP3 Encoding: MP3 Maker Platinum 3.04
When encoding the Wave file to MP3 with a variable bit rate, the faster FSB and HT capabilities of the CPU in the desktop system gave it the upper hand.
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