3DMark 2001SE Pro will help us to estimate the performance of the notebook in games:

As you see, we had two test modes: 1024x768 resolution, 16-bit color, 16 bit Z-Buf, 16 bit Texture and 1024x768, 32 bit, Z-Buf: 24 bit, Texture: 32 bit. The numbers we obtained are rather low. The speed degenerates as soon as the notebook starts working on its own accumulator battery and you definitely cannot play modern DirectX 9.0-compatible games with any comfort. Well, the performance is low even when you plug the machine to a wall outlet – the low CPU and memory clock rates, 1.4GHz and 266MHz respectively, don’t allow reaching better results.

We benchmarked the TravelMate 371TCi in two popular games, Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament 2003, too:

We tested notebook in Quake 3 with two graphics quality presets:

• 640x480; 16 bit; Lighting:Vertex; Detail:Low; Texture Quality:16 bit; Texture Filter:Bilinear;
• 1024x768; 32 bit; Lighting:Lightmap; Detail:High; Texture Quality:32 bit; Texture Filter:Trilinear.

You can play the first mode, but the second one is rather difficult for the notebook. The diagram follows:

It’s the same in Unreal Tournament 2003 (you can see the results in the table below). When feeding on the accumulator battery, the notebook gave out a slide-show of a game at a 63% smaller frames-per-second rate.