Tablet PC - AveratecAveratec released their C3500 convertible Tablet PC model based on the Low Voltage Mobile AMD Athlon XP-M 2200+ with an internal DVD/CDRW.
Our Averatec earned a BAPCo SysMark 2004 benchmark rating of 85, balancing an Internet Content Creation score of 101 with an Office Productivity number of 71. Futuremark's PCMark04 yielded an overall score of 2,102 (CPU 2,528; memory 1,367; hard disk 2,470; graphics 507). Except for ultralight, ultra-low-power Transmeta Efficeon or Crusoe portables, those numbers are at the bottom of the pack among recent laptops tested, but the C3500 never felt sluggish in everyday use.
Until we tried playing a game, that is. The convertible's SiS M741 integrated chipset is fine for PowerPoint or even occasional image editing, but limped to a lackluster 31 frames per second in the oldest and slowest of our 3D graphics tests, Quake III Arena, and completed only the first of four game simulations en route to a 3DMark03 score of 80. Its AquaMark3 graphics score of 306 involved flickering through the 3D scenes at 2.9 fps. And the Averatec took all afternoon to complete our Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory benchmark, though it yielded a nice round score of 1 frame per second.
12-20-2004, 11:07 AM
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