9. Multimedia Performance: PC Mark 2002

The hard-drive score brings to the fore yet another downside of notebook engineering - 2.5" hard drives that run at a casual 4200 rpm. But relief isn't that far off - you can now find 5400 rpm and 7200 rpm hard drives that measure 2.5" (2.5" 5,400 and 7,200 rpm Hard Drives ) and that will reduce the performance gap between desktop and notebook systems. Hard drives with 5400 rpm and an 8 MB cache, like the one Asus uses in its M2N, score almost 580 points in this benchmark.