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"... In the interest of freedom of information, could some kind "PC Week" subscriber please post the published benchmark results for these machines?..." remember that this is an exhibition, not a competition, so, please, no wagering. here goes... machines: AST Ascentia J50 CTS 10 800/16 133mhz Compaq LTE 5300 133mhz Dell Latitude XPi P133ST 133mhz HP OmniBook 5500CT 133mhz IBM Thinkpad 760ED 133mhz NEC Versa 6030H 133mhz Toshiba Tecra 720CDT 133mhz Toshiba Tecra 700CDT 120mhz winstone 32: AST 64.10 Cpq 55.70 Dell 58.90 HP 55.10 IBM 67.70 NEC 60.10 T720 53.20 T700 48.30 winstone 96: AST 53.00 Cpq 47.30 Dell 51.60 HP 49.10 IBM 53.80 NEC 50.40 T720 46.30 T700 41.20 CPUmark32: AST 257 Cpq 216 Dell 212 HP 236 IBM 256 NEC 242 T720 251 T700 182 CPUmark16: AST 254 Cpq 225 Dell 227 HP 246 IBM 254 NEC 246 T720 256 T700 187 Graphics WinMark96: AST 13.70 Cpq 10.70 Dell 15.30 HP 12.90 IBM 17.40 NEC 14.90 T720 12.70 T700 9.85 Disk WinMark96: AST 521 Cpq 619 Dell 736 HP 640 IBM 828 NEC 698 T720 581 T700 555 CD-ROM WinMark96: AST n/a Cpq 413 Dell n/a HP 450 IBM 414 NEC 560 T720 592 T700 438 the thinkpad appears to have swept it except for the cd rom. Michael J. Verne michael_verne@vmedia.com Systems Analyst, Ventana Communications Group http://www.vmedia.com/michaelv/ Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons. --Popular Mechanics, 1949