Performance - Startup Times

Boot Time (seconds)
Compaq Presario 2800T 1.7GHz

ECS i-Buddie XP 2100+

Toshiba 1905-S277 1.6GHz

ASUS S1 1.2GHz

WinBook N4 1.8GHz

ECS i-Buddie 4 1.6GHz

PaceBook PaceBlade 600MHz

31

33

36

36

37

39

84

|
0
|
17
|
34
|
50
|
67
|
84
|
101

Sure, the i-Buddie XP may not find much use away from a desk, but it is still interesting to see how fast the system booted. Keep in mind that with the purchase of the external battery pack the boot up time, standby time, and hibernate time become increasingly important.

The i-Buddie XP started up fairly quickly, making it the second fastest system we have seen go from a black screen to Windows. This represented a fairly nice improvement over the i-Buddie 4, which was 6 seconds slower from start to finish.

Out of Standby Time (seconds)
ECS i-Buddie XP 2100+

Toshiba 1905-S277 1.6GHz

WinBook N4 1.8GHz

Compaq Presario 2800T 1.7GHz

ECS i-Buddie 4 1.6GHz

ASUS S1 1.2GHz

PaceBook PaceBlade 600MHz

6

6

6

7

7

10

11

|
0
|
2
|
4
|
7
|
9
|
11
|
13

Mimicking the boot-up time rating of the i-Buddie XP, the time required for the system to come out of standby mode was fast; tying with three other systems at six seconds.

Out of Hibernate Time (seconds)
ECS i-Buddie XP 2100+

WinBook N4 1.8GHz

Toshiba 1905-S277 1.6GHz

Compaq Presario 2800T 1.7GHz

ECS i-Buddie 4 1.6GHz

ASUS S1 1.2GHz

PaceBook PaceBlade 600MHz

16

16

17

19

22

23

41

|
0
|
8
|
16
|
25
|
33
|
41
|
49

Again, the time required for the i-Buddie XP to come out of hibernation mode was short. At only 16 seconds, the system recovered 6 seconds faster than the i-Buddie 4.

Performance - Content Creation Conclusion
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  • Anonymous User - Thursday, July 31, 2003 - link

    Nice review. By the way, have you heard about the new ECS DeskNote A530 Notebook. Im looking for a review, unfortunately no luck. Maybe you can create a review in the future. Thanks and more power!

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