General Application Performance
Wrapping things up with our performance testing, we have results from the Futuremark PCMark testing suites as well as some of our own application benchmarking. When it comes to running your office, multimedia, and Internet tasks, most modern laptops are more than fast enough. What follows are a few of the more strenuous application benchmarks - 3D rendering and video encoding - that put more of an emphasis on high CPU speeds. If you don't do that sort of thing on your computer, you will probably find that just about any Core 2 Duo processor is more than fast enough.
Both PCMark tests support the above statement, with a gap in performance of only 25% in PCMark Vantage between the fastest and slowest laptop tested. If we drop the P-6831, the gap between the U6V and the Sager/Alienware in video encoding is also about 25%, and slightly higher at 30% in CINEBENCH (32-bit). It's a shame the U6V doesn't get 64-bit Vista, especially since it has 2x2GB RAM and could benefit in at least a couple areas from a 64-bit OS. Still, there are businesses that continue to require 32-bit Windows for one reason or another.
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JarredWalton - Friday, October 24, 2008 - link
See http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=3435&a...">Anand's article on the subject. The MacBook battery life dropped in half with Vista... but then that could just be that Apple didn't optimize for Vista properly. What we would rather see is a Vista PC that can compete with MacBook; I can't think of a good reason why it can't be done, unless Vista just has some junk that refuses to allow power saving features to fully activate.BushLin - Tuesday, October 28, 2008 - link
I think it is only fair to the other laptop manufacturers that you at least show the battery life of a Mac running Vista alongside their favourable results, I doubt anyone is still allowed to supply review samples with XP... it's not their fault Vista is crap!phreax9802 - Friday, October 24, 2008 - link
The VAIO SR series claim 6 hours of battery life running Vista. This is a 13.3" notebook with a 6-cell battery. Can you guys verify this claim, ask for a demo unit maybe?JarredWalton - Friday, October 24, 2008 - link
I'll see what I can do; Anand has had Sony hardware in the past, so maybe he can get me a laptop from them.GoodRevrnd - Friday, October 24, 2008 - link
Supposedly the SR also has "battery leakage" issues as well where it will drain over time even when it's off. I have a Z series and can hit 4-5 hours myself. That's at about 50-60% screen brightness, wifi on, pretty much everything else disabled, in stamina mode, with the processor pretty much sitting at Super LFM the whole time.danwat1234 - Sunday, May 6, 2018 - link
Still rocking this laptop today, with an X9100 Core 2 Duo Penryn at 3.45GHZ via multiplyer overclocking. Installed the 17 fin Forcecon fan while I was at it, the same that's comes with the Asus G51VX and G51J for more airflow. 8GB of RAM.Still my main machine today. Refuses to die even with a few years of nearly 24/7 GPU & CPU thrashing at 90C +.. The chassis is beat up though, starting to crack on the main chassis around the hinges. But, can get a used 1 on Ebay for cheap.. Batteries no longer made for it so i have a few genuine 9-cell batteries in my fridge.
About time to upgrade to a Coffee Lake laptop maybe, but I like my Windows 7 setup.
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