Content Creation Performance
Compared to the desktop systems, the M:855 performs more competitively than it did in the General Usage Performance benchmarks. In Content Creation Winstone 2003, it took the lead over all, while the gap between the Voodoo Envy M:855 with 1GB of system memory and Athlon 64 3200+ desktop system is close enough to attribute to the standard deviation between retesting.
We should note that the new PowerNow drivers for the M:855 are expected to increase performance, but the trade off will be thermal emissions, which Voodoo says they are willing to contend with.
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spawnocula - Friday, November 21, 2003 - link
It would be nice if Anandtech would review the ALIENWARE AREA-51m, Voodoo Envy 855, Sager 8890, and Hypersonic Aviator GX6 or 8, to see which is better of the bunch and has longer upgradeability.spawnocula - Friday, November 21, 2003 - link
alexruiz - Thursday, November 20, 2003 - link
I am quire sure MOST of the available Athlon 64 laptops are based on the MITAC 8355. Clevo doesn't have an Athlon 64 design. The other 2 Athlon 64 laptops are the hyped Arima A520-K8 that is nowhere to be seen (mobility radeon 9000 only though). The other is the Uniwill 766 that employs the SIS 755 chipset, still not seen yet.So, I am 95% confident all the machines available are based on the MITAC design.
Alex
Madcat207 - Tuesday, November 18, 2003 - link
#3&4-Im not sure why the article says there is no DDR400, but Uniwill and Clevo both have good DDR400 supplies. I cant speak for Uniwill, but Clevo ships Apacer PC3200, CL2.5, which can be OCed (with some register editing) to CL2. Also, this ram is commercially sold to end users..
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Hypersonic's A64 laptop is the EXACT same as Voodoo's, since they both get thier laptops from from the same ODM..
mrbdm99 - Monday, November 17, 2003 - link
Hypersonic has a 64 notebook as well, I'm sure it's from Clevo as well.ssamurai26 - Sunday, November 16, 2003 - link
OK, thanks for the clarification.Andrew Ku - Saturday, November 15, 2003 - link
FishTankX - Yes, that would be mighty speedy. :)gordon151 - Well only one score from each actually, a typo, which has been fixed. Thanks!
ssamurai26 - The Alienware 51M systems most likely use Kingmax, but the problem still remains to be supply. SODIMM DDR400 modules are very very rare. The highest speed that is actually available to the general consumer still remains to be DDR333.
ssamurai26 - Friday, November 14, 2003 - link
"While the K8T800 supports DDR400, SODIMM modules are still limited at DDR333, which is why Voodoo had to go with this memory speed."Out of curiousity, why is it then that the Area 51M ships with DDR400 sodimms?
gordon151 - Friday, November 14, 2003 - link
Someone wanna email and tell Andrew Ku he mixed up the "Content Creation Winstone 2003" scores with the "Business Winstone 2002" scores =/?FishTankX - Friday, November 14, 2003 - link
Wow! That Insperon 8600 is running mighty fast at [b]MHz/b].