Dell Inspiron 8200 Pentium 4-M 2.0GHz
by Matthew Witheiler on October 23, 2002 4:29 AM EST- Posted in
- Laptops
Performance - Content Creation
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252The Internet Content Creation portion of SYSMark 2002 is fairly CPU intensive and as a result the Inspiron 8200 with its 2.0GHz processor performs well among the mobile systems. The Inspiron 8200 ran 12% faster than the Compaq Presario 2800T with a 1.7GHz processor. Thanks to its 2.4GHz desktop processor, the WinBook J4 remains performance king in this test, running 10% faster than the Inspiron 8200.
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For months now we have been pointing out that notebook systems typically do poorly in Content Creation Winstone 2002 because the benchmark is fairly I/O intensive. We previously demonstrated how much performance can be lost thanks to a mobile drive and speculated that a faster hard drive would increase performance of a system in this test. The 5400RPM Toshiba drive that our Inspiron 8200 used gave the system a large performance boost in Content Creation Winstone 2002, suggesting that at least the Toshiba MK4019GAX 5400RPM drive reduces a major bottleneck in mobile systems: the I/O performance. Thanks to the hard drive, our Inspiron 8200 performance 18% faster than the next closest competition, which happened to be using a desktop processor running a full 400MHz faster. In fact, in this highly I/O intensive benchmark the Dell system only performed 5% slower than the desktop system we compared it to. If the Toshiba MK4019GAX is any indication it seems that 5400RPM mobile hard drives are just what notebooks have been waiting for.
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Anonymous User - Monday, July 7, 2003 - link
I have had this pc for about six months now, and I am still in awe. My setup was not as good as the test model here, my processor is a 1.7 GHz and only 384Mb ram and the ATI 9000. I use this laptop for web surfing and internet gaming, mainly Diablo II(HC). This machine ROX.....