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To: fyodor_ who wrote (32565)	3/21/2001 5:34:35 PM
From: andreas_wonisch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Fyo, Re: This is the perfect benchmarking situation. You are benchmarking the systems AS IS. No messing with ANYTHING. You don't have to make sure drivers are up to date or anything! Simple, simple simple. The problem with this approach is that e.g. you could get identical battery run time with an Transmeta ultra-light notebook (small battery) and an 1 GHz PIII "desktop" laptop (two big batteries). This doesn't tell you anything and could lead you believe that both CPUs consume about the same power. This maybe a good approach for people interested in buying available laptops (and that's why everyone is doing it this way) but it doesn't tell you the "real story" at all. Just look at the link I posted to Petz: The Gericom 1 GHz laptop with PIII desktop CPU has an average battery time (2 hours) but weighs over 3kg. Compare that to Sony's VAIOs ultra-light Transmeta notebook which battery time isn't that much longer. To make a reasonable statement which one is "better" you have to know exactly what the user wants to do with his laptops and what's most important to him (e.g. battery time, weight, performance, display etc.). Andreas