HEXUS.gaming, HEXUS.hd, HEXUS.battery
| HEXUS.hd - QuickTime 1080p clip (h.264) playback load | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HP Pavilion TX2520 | Dell XPS M1330 | Dell Inspiron 690G | Novatech Centrino 2 | Toshiba Satellite A300D | Toshiba Satellite Pro A300D |
| 40.1 | 30.55 | 40.7 | 24.5 | 37.55 | 43.44 |
| HEXUS.gaming - Quake 4 v1.30 netdemo - 1,280x800 0xAA 8xAF | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HP Pavilion TX2520 | Dell XPS M1330 | Dell Inspiron 690G | Novatech Centrino 2 | Toshiba Satellite A300D | Toshiba Satellite Pro A300D |
| 25.66 | 35.35 | 14.1 | 17.25 | 67.65 | 25.25 |
The Dell XPS and Toshiba A300D laptops both feature discrete graphics cards and thus trounce the IGP-based notebooks in the Quake 4 test.
Novatech's X4500MHD graphics performance is soundly beaten by the AMD Puma pair in the Toshiba and HP machines, and an average frame-rate of 17fps makes Quake 4 seem sticky when played at medium settings.
| HEXUS.battery - percentage left after 60m Batman Begins DVD | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HP Pavilion TX2520 | Dell XPS M1330 | Dell Inspiron 690G | Novatech Centrino 2 | Toshiba Satellite A300D | Toshiba Satellite Pro A300D |
| 51 | 72 | 42 | 39 | 32 | 36 |
A 35WHr battery is shown up in the battery-life test. There's not enough mobile juice to play the entire DVD film from the optical drive, and you would need the 8-cell model, 65WHr, for that, which would match the Dell XPS's performance.
