PC Club Enpower ENP660: Back to School

General Performance

To measure general performance, we're now using SYSmark 2007 as well as PCMark05. We don't have SYSmark 2007 results for most of the other laptops, but we will be adding additional notebooks over time. Here is a summary of the SYSmark 2007 results to date:






The faster processor in the HP dv6500t results in almost universally better performance. The one exception is the video creation test, where the faster hard drive apparently plays a role. We also found it odd that the ENP660 does so poorly in the productivity test suite. TurboMemory might be partly to blame (scores improved by one point when it was disabled), but there's definitely some other factor at play.



PCMark05 turns the tables and the ENP660 comes in slightly ahead of the HP dv6500t, at least in terms of overall scores. Here hard drive performance plays a more significant role, however, and looking at the scoring breakdown there are quite a few areas where the HP laptop is slightly faster. The updated graphics drivers also improve performance quite a bit in several of the graphics tests (especially 2D transparency). The main point to take away from all this, however, is not whether the HP or the PC Club is the better laptop, but rather that 4200 RPM notebook drives can definitely be a performance bottleneck.