WinBook N4 Pentium 4-M 1.8GHz Notebook

The Test

Note that the N4 is a business notebook. Since the N4 is not targeted at a gaming crowd (this is what the WinBook J4 is for), WinBook felt justified using the NVIDIA GeForce2 Go 100 video chip. WinBook believes that the GeForce2 Go 100 chip is suited well to the vast majority of business applications out there. The use of the chip allows the company to offer the N4 at a price that would otherwise not be possible. For the most part we agree with WinBook; if you are a producing a notebook targeted at business users, there is no reason why 3D graphics acceleration should play a major role. At the same time, however, we felt that the 3D capabilities of the GeForce2 Go 100 warranted some 3D benchmarking to show how the system runs in gaming situations. Put whatever emphasis you want on the gaming benchmarks, but keep in mind that this notebook is not targeted at the enthusiast market.

There are a few more things to note as well. First off, we were not able to get Intel Application Accelerator to run properly on the WinBook N4. We are not sure what caused the problem, but it forced us to test the notebook without the IAA drivers installed. This should not be a big deal, however, since the I/O system on notebooks is inherently slow. Secondly, note that we tested the N4 with NVIDIA Detonator version 17.20 because this is the latest version offer by WinBook. Unlike desktop graphics chips, NVIDIA does not release drivers for their mobile products, instead relying on the manufacturer to put out updates as necessary. The desktop system used the latest 28.32 version of the drivers.