Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 23:36:44 -0800 (PST)
From: David Chien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: New Sony mininotebook
> I think i read something about inaccuracies with the standard benchmarking
> methods using the Transmeta CPU's.
However, modern benchmarks have improved in various areas and some simulate
the general day-long operations carried out by a typical user using typical
office applications. If performance is poor even then, the results suggest a
poor performance in other applications.
In any case, I'm certainly not typing in the same thing over and over again
(nor clicking the same thing, nor running the same thing in the same order on
my PC). I don't believe many others are doing the same, unless their work is
extremely dull and repetitive ;)
Also, the latest issue of a Japanese mobile PC magazine finds the LOOX to be
~50% slower than a 500Mhz Celeron CPU across various benchmarks on average.
While many people are running <266mhz Librettos and other PCs w/o a problem,
I need at least a 400Mhz system for what I do, and preferably, faster. That
reason contributed to my selling my L50 and 505GX years ago - they simply
weren't fast enough to keep me from waiting. Today, however, they've finally
caught up at 400+Mhz for laptop CPUs, and I'd be happy on one.
d =)
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