towards the optimal laptop

The Windows Experience Index (WEI) is not a very informative benchmark but at the moment it is the only indication of its performance that I have found. Today I have found an HP Pavilion dv7 laptop with Windows 7 and an AMD Turion II M500 (2.2 GHz) at a mall. I have quickly looked for the system properties and the WEI: the CPU subscore was 5.7; next to it there was a dv6 laptop with an AMD Athlon II M300 (2.0 GHz): it scored 4.9.

HP Pavilion dv6z laptop with AMD Turion II processor

Some scores of Intel processors to compare (collected from the Net or from other Windows 7 laptops in the mall):

• Intel Pentium Dual Core SU4100 (1.3 GHz): 4.0
• Intel Pentium Dual Core T4300 (2.1 GHz): 4.9
• Intel Core 2 Duo T6600 (2.2 GHz): 5.5
• Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 (2.4 GHz): 6.0
• Intel Core 2 Duo T9600 (2.8 GHz): 6.4

So it looks like the new AMD Turion II and Turion II Ultra are going to compete in performance against mainstream Core 2 Duo processors, not high-end ones, but we need more benchmarks!

Update: according to PC Magazine, the AMD Turion II M520 (2.3 GHz) scores 4746 in Cinebench R10 (multi). That’s just in between an Intel Core 2 Duo P8400 2.26 GHz (that scores 4687) and a P8600 2.4 GHz (that scores 4856) and confirms the performance level.

Update 2: from the reviews of laptops with Turion II processors, it seems that the M500 is closer to a T6600 than to a P8400 or similar.

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3. Intel Core i5 Mobile (Arrandale) processors reviewed: more performance, same battery life
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Tags: AMD, processors

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