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A Few Good Laptops
We locked ourselves in a padded room with three multimedia laptops,
a handful of games, a pitcher of kamikazes and, of course, a toilet. The
purpose: to see how well the different games played on laptop computers.
The Contenders
The contenders
were: IBM's ThinkPad A21, Dell's Inspiron 8000 G850U, and Toshiba's Satellite
2800-A621. These laptops represent the most powerful and feature-packed
class of notebooks. They sport top-end processors, 3D graphics accelerators
and TFT displays, and all the standard features such as DVD-ROM drives,
huge hard disk drives, internal speakers and so on.
How We Tested
Other than our usual Sysmark 2000 and battery life benchmarks, we ran
the systems through the 3D Mark 2001 and Quake III Arena benchmarks. The
latter two test the 3D capabilities of the notebooks.
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