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MSI Wind U100 subnotebook review |
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Written by Stuyo
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Monday, 27 October 2008 |
Page 6 of 7
Page 6 - Testing (round 3) - Atomic performance
Maxon Cinebench R10
We begin with Maxon Cinebench. It's based on the animation software Cinema 4D, used in a number of movies such as Spider-Man, Star Wars and The Chronicles of Narnia. It has a component that tests the processor performance and has also good multi-threading support.
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Paint.NET x32 3.05
PDNBench is a benchmark based on the popular 64 bit free software for picture editing Pain.NET. PDNBench tests the and displays the sum of time required for performing a variety of different operations, commonly used when editing pictures - scaling, zooming, decreasing, cutting, compressing and so on.
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Lame
As the name suggests, this is the famously known software for audio encoding in LAME, with multi-threading support. We used the benchmark with the supplied 20MB .WAV fail, compressed in .MP3 of course.
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WinRAR 3.71
Is there anything we can say about WinRAR, that you don't already know... The integrated benchmark has multi-threading support and is quite indicative. We measured the time for compressing 100MB source.
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SuperPI
The famous SuperPI... We used the version from our colleagues from XtremeSystems, that supports multi-threading.
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Well, from all these tests we clearly see that MSI Wind pure CPU performance isn't much of a much, but then again considering its class it's quite adequate.