Performance

The tests were run in Microsoft Windows XP HE with DirectX 9.0a installed. The network services, audio subsystem, power-saving services, antivirus software, screensavers and error messages were all disabled before the tests. We ran all benchmarks with the maximum and minimum screen brightness settings and with the maximum LCD matrix resolution (1024x768).

We used the following tests:

1. Performance benchmarks: synthetic (SiSoftware Sandra 2004, PCMark 2004), office and multimedia benchmarks (Business Winstone 2004, Multimedia Content Creation Winstone 2004), gaming benchmarks (3DMark 2001 SE Pro, Quake 3, Unreal Tournament 2003);
2. Battery life tests (Battery Eater Pro 2.30).

The benchmarks were run in two modes created by changing the power source settings. In the first case we ran the tests with the AC/DC power source, i.e. the notebook was powered constantly, which provided the maximum performance and guaranteed shortest battery run-down time. In the second case the notebook was powered only from the battery, with battery saving mode activated. In this case we got maximum battery life.

First of all we would like to share the results obtained in Business Winstone 2004 and Multimedia Content Creation Winstone 2004, since this particular notebook is primarily positioned as a comfortable solution for office and multimedia applications (as we have already mentioned above, Fujitsu-Siemens LifeBook S7010 BT is positioned as a corporate solution for office needs). These benchmarks run real applications scripts with multiple tasks being performed simultaneously. The table below sums up all the obtained results:

As you can see, this notebook performs very well here. Note that it proves better fit for multimedia applications (the results of Multimedia Content Creation Winstone 2004 are about 7% higher than those of Business Winstone). And when our laptop is running in the battery mode, the performance gets almost twice as low. Of course, it can be explained by the fact that the power-saving mode makes processor work at lower clock frequency depending on the applications running at a given moment, which allows increasing the battery life dramatically (which does matter most of all other factors, when there is no external power source around). For a better and more illustrative comparison of the results take a look at the diagram below: