Some portable users demand the highest possible speed they can get from a notebook computer.
Though the 3100XL may lack some of the amenities you would find in a desktop-replacement system, performance is not one of them. This notebook's Business Winstone 98 score of 21.7 shows the same level of application performance we have seen from 300MHz Pentium II-based notebooks and desktops. The 3100XL's drive and graphics subsystem performance is slightly faster than average compared with that of other 300MHz Mobile Pentium II-based notebooks we have seen. With a BatteryMark time of 3 hours and 2 minutes, the 3100XL lags about 19 minutes behind the average battery life we have seen for 300MHz Mobile Pentium II-based notebooks. A battery life of just over 3 hours, however, is still respectable.