Sony VAIO VGN-SZ150P/C - Core Duo

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General Performance: The Winstones "Real World" Application Performance

Business Winstone 2004 from Veritest uses scripts to tests the performance level of a computer in business related applications:

• Microsoft Access 2002
• Microsoft Excel 2002
• Microsoft Frontpage 2002
• Microsoft Outlook 2002
• Microsoft PowerPoint 2002
• Microsoft Project 2002
• Microsoft Word 2002
• Norton AntiVirus Professional Edition 2003
• Winzip 8.1

Multimedia Content Creation Winstone 2004 from Veritest uses scripts to tests the performance level of a computer in multimedia rich environment:

• Adobe Photoshop 7.0.1
• Adobe Premiere 6.50
• Macromedia Director MX 9.0
• Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 6.1
• Microsoft Windows Media^TM Encoder 9 Version 9.00.00.2980
• NewTek's LightWave 3D 7.5b
• Steinberg^TM WaveLab^TM 4.0f

Higher scores here indicate better performance. You can read more about Business Winstone 2004 on Veritest's FAQ page. And you can read more about Multimedia Content Creation Winstone 2004 on Veritest's FAQ page.

This is the first Core Duo we have reviewed as part of our complete mobile review process. The scores are in line with what we expected. It should be noted that the Winstone 2004 test don't show the full benefit of a dual core processor. We only use this benchmark as we phase into the new mobile benchmark suite, so you can see the performance comparison to older systems.

Though even in this older benchmark, you can see that the 1.83GHz Duo pulls ahead of the Dothan 2.13GHz.