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At 07:13 PM 9/4/96 -0400, Mark Rees wrote:
>I have not seen the performance ratings of the 133mhz's at all, have you?
The reviews on the 120mhz were that it was slower than a desktop 90mhz....
If my Norton Utils benchmark can be believed, this is true.
However, a little more detailed benchmark I have (Wintune 95--maybe
a bit old, but should do the job) shows its not quite that bad.
Specifically, it shows the CPU at 217 MIPS vs. a Micron Millenia
Desktop P120 at 220 MIPS. Whetstone at 65 Mflops vs. 69. Where it flopped
bigtime was in video speed, which was about 1/2 that of the desktop machine,
as well as a much slower response on retrieval from the Hard Disk and
somewhat slower on RAM.
However, comparing the same Micron Millenia Desktop in a P100
version, my P120 TP 560 beat it handily in CPU & Whetstone--but again,
lagged somewhat (though not as badly) in Video speed & Hard Drive retrieval
speed.
Basically, this is just the facts of life with respect to buying a
notebook machine. These are the tradeoffs you make to have something that
weighs 4 lbs. and is as thing as a spiral notebook. It will be the case, to
one extent or another, no matter *what* notebook machine you buy. An
equivalent CPU on any desktop machine is going to be faster, and sometimes a
slower CPU on a desktop, given faster "other" components (video, HD) is
going to be faster too. Its a little annoying, but you just have to live
with facts--a TFT driven by some basic PCI bus doesn't match up to a hot-rod
PCI video accelerator hooked up to a CRT and these tiny little 2.5", 12 mm
high drives are built to minimize space, not so much speed.
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