HEXUS.photofix, HEXUS.squeeze, HEXUS.transcoding, HEXUS.PiFast
| HEXUS.squeeze - WinRAR 3.71 - 205MB files | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dell XPS M1330 | Novatech Centrino 2 | HP Pavilion TX2520 | Toshiba Satellite A300D | Dell Inspiron 690G |
| 96 | 85 | 115 | 116 | 114 |
| HEXUS.photofix - Adobe Photoshop Album SE - 25 images | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dell XPS M1330 | Novatech Centrino 2 | HP Pavilion TX2520 | Toshiba Satellite A300D | Dell Inspiron 690G |
| 247 | 201 | 404 | 408 | 421 |
The first two benchmarks test the laptops' CPU grunt and, to some extent, hard-drive speed. The AMD Turion X2 Ultra ZM-80 is no match for the Centrino chips, and the three Turion-powered machines produce reasonably similar times.
It's scary to think that a Centrino 2 P8400, operating at 2.26GHz, is twice as fast at the HEXUS.photofix test than a 2.1GHz Turion Ultra X2.
| HEXUS.transcode - 1080p clip to iPhone using MovieStyle | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dell XPS M1330 | Novatech Centrino 2 | HP Pavilion TX2520 | Toshiba Satellite A300D | Dell Inspiron 690G |
| 189 | 158 | 222 | 220 | 226 |
The transcoding test also runs faster on Intel hardware, and the difference is over a minute from fastest to slowest.
| HEXUS.PiFast - calculation to 10m places | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dell XPS M1330 | Novatech Centrino 2 | HP Pavilion TX2520 | Toshiba Satellite A300D | Dell Inspiron 690G |
| 47.02 | 43.31 | 62.14 | 61.65 | 63.26 |
Our number-crunching HEXUS.PiFast test reiterates the results that we see above.