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To: Petz who wrote (32528)	3/21/2001 4:06:46 PM
From: andreas_wonisch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Petz, Re: Please pass on to your bosses that they really should be benchmarking laptops. The problem is that we have a set of standard benchmarks (mostly from ZD) that have to be run for every review. Personally I don't like them too much because most of them are synthetic and not real-life and take much too long to run. Probably the thinking here is that most of our readers are too "stupid" to evaluate a product based on different real-world application benchmarks and want a final score instead. For laptops only Business Winstone, Business Disk Winmark, Business Graphics Winmark and Battery Mark are included in the standard benchmark set. You may want to check out a laptop review of a 1 GHz laptop with a desktop PIII (at zdnet.de. But I have to warn you that Battery Mark is not a very good benchmark to evaluate battery length, unless you don't do any multimedia applications like watching DVDs. BTW, another problem with laptops is that you can compare performance very poorly from one model to another because each has a different configuration (different motherboard, drivers, RAM, graphics etc.). That's why you are seeing so few of them. The situation is even worse than with OEM PC systems. Andreas