ECS i-Buddie 4 Pentium 4 1.6GHz

Performance - Overall Performance

Office Performance Office Productivity SYSMark 2002 Compaq Presario 2800T 1.7GHz WinBook N4 1.8GHz Desktop 1.6GHz ECS i-Buddie 4 1.6GHz Toshiba 1905-S277 1.6GHz ASUS S1 1.2GHz PaceBook PaceBlade 600MHz 123 119 113 102 99 91 35 | 0 | 25 | 49 | 74 | 98 | 123 | 148

It was interesting to see how the SiS 650 based ECS i-Buddie 4 with its 1.6GHz Northwood Pentium 4 processor performed compared to the various Intel 845 solutions we have seen. As the graph shows, our i-Buddie 4 performed in the middle of the pack. The i-Buddie 4 we tested performed 21% slower than the fastest mobile system we have seen to date, the Compaq Presario 2800T 1.7GHz. The i-Buddie 4 also performed 11% slower than the desktop 1.6GHz system we compared it to. The speed deference here can be explained by the hard drive found in the desknote, as the remainder of the system is essentially identical.

It seems that something is holding the system back some, however, as the Northwood Pentium 4 in the i-Buddie 4 was only able to beat out the older Toshiba 1905-S277 by 3%. Not only does the Toshiba system use an older Willamette based Pentium 4, it also uses Intel's 845 chipset with SDR memory.

Overall Performance SYSMark 2001 Compaq Presario 2800T 1.7GHz WinBook N4 1.8GHz Desktop 1.6GHz ECS i-Buddie 4 1.6GHz Toshiba 1905-S277 1.6GHz ASUS S1 1.2GHz PaceBook PaceBlade 600MHz 167 160 156 141 127 94 39 | 0 | 33 | 67 | 100 | 134 | 167 | 200

The standing of the ECS i-Buddie 4 1.6GHz does not change in the total SYSMark 2002 score. Overall, the benchmark shows the i-Buddie 4 1.6GHz performing 18% slower than the top dog: the Compaq Presario 2800T 1.7GHz. The desknote system also performed 11% behind the desktop 1.6GHz system; again a result of the laptop hard drive that the i-Buddie 4 uses. The margin between the i-Buddie 4 and the Toshiba 1905-S277 grows in the overall SYSMark 2002 score. It seems that the extra cache on the Northwood Pentium 4 paid off in the Internet Content Creation section of the benchmark, as we soon will see.