The HP OmniBook 4150 topped its competitors on ZD Business Winstone 99, a measure of overall system performance when running typical business applications, thanks to a combination of a fast IBM hard disk and an ATI Rage Mobility graphics chip. On multiple runs of ZD CPUmark 99, however, we noted instabilities in its score that varied by nearly a factor of 2. We made all attempts to disable power management settings. High scores are best.
Bold type denotes first place.
If you create video, audio, or Internet content on your notebook, look at the top performers on our ZD Content Creation Winstone 2000 test program. Although any vendor optimizations may not easily be seen when testing an individual subsystem, they show up here, because the whole system is tested. CPUmark 99 scores were very close. ZD BatteryMark 3.0 measures a system's battery life while running our heavy-usage scenario. The constraints on size and weight just don't allow for a powerful battery.