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Wednesday, 28 October 2009 08:26 Laptopfreak

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Article Index
HP Mini 5101 - Professional travelling companion
Specifications
Package contents
Physical aspects
Physical aspects continued
Benchmark
Benchmark continued
OpenOffice – mostly for students
Conclusion
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The processor:

SuperPi

Super Pi calculates the number Pi with 1 million decimals. The result is a time in seconds, meaning that the lower the number, the better. This can be used for direct comparison with other laptops that have run the same test.

You definitely get more processing power with HP. The results fall out to HP’s advantage as expected, and the following benchmarks will likely show the same.

SiSoft Sandra CPU Arithmetic

SiSoft Sandra’s Whetstone and Drystone benchmark tests the processor’s ability to do pure number crunching, which occurs during gaming or different forms of picture editing. The measure is in Mflops (Millions Floating Point Operations Per Second) – the higher, the better.

The prophecy is being fulfilled. The HP has a more powerful processor.

SiSoft Sandra CPU Multimedia

The multimedia test in SiSoft Sandra is calculated on a 2D figure. The output (it/s) is Mandelbrot iterations per second, i.e. the bigger the better.

Once again HP comes out on top. It is nice to see both laptops do as well on battery as they do on AC. It is very annoying with a laptop that hardly performs when it runs on battery, especially when it is supposed to be a highly mobile device.

RAM - SiSoft Sandra Memory Bandwidth:

Sisoft Sandra’s Memory Bandwidth benchmark is used to measure the speed of the RAM – the higher the value, the better.

With a better performing all-round system, HP gets the best scores here as well.

Hard drive performance - SiSoft Sandra Harddisk Read:

Sisoft Sandra’s hard drive test module is used to measure the performance of the hard drive. Sisoft Sandra runs a number of tests on the surface of the hard drive and calculates the average reading speed. .

The Acer has a fairly standard hard drive, but that was clearly not good enough for HP. It is actually quite fast and reaches some pretty good numbers. It is nice to see a company prioritizing reading speed on their hard drives, something that is often neglected to cut costs. The Acer performs well, too.

GPU performance - 3Dmark

The 3Dmark tests show the performance in DirectX 9, and paint a picture of the performance in newer games and applications. No tests have been run in DirectX 10.1 (which both cards support).

Netbooks usually do badly in this category and are easily taken over by standard computers. If you want to increase your graphical performance (however much), the HP is your best bet. Remember the two netbooks are in the same price range.

Overall performance

The PCMark 05 results can be compared directly with other laptops that have run the same PCMark version. The program produces a score from a test that includes the performance of the processor, RAM, hard drive, GPU, etc.

Neither of the two was able to run this test. However, I would expect the HP to outperform the Acer easily after seeing the other benchmarks – except for battery life, HP won them all.