Sager NP8886 2.8GHz Pentium 4

Performance - MobileMark 2002

Battery Life (minutes) MobileMark 2002 Dell Inspiron 8200 2.0GHz Compaq Presario 900 1500+ WinBook J4 2.4GHz Sager NP8886 2.8GHz Hypersonic Sonic Aviator 3.06GHz 305 170 156 140 82 | 0 | 61 | 122 | 183 | 244 | 305 | 366

Although the Sager NP8886 is almost too heavy to carry around, it actually proves to be a fairly decent machine on the road when it comes to battery life. The battery life of the system was considerably longer than that of the Hypersonic machine which offers fairly similar performance numbers. Helping the NP8886 last longer than the Hypersonic Sonic Aviator is an LCD panel that gets darker than that on the Hypersonic Machine and a processor that is clocked lower. At the same time, the NP8886 has to expend a considerable amount of energy to keep both 5400RPM hard drives spinning and ready which is a task the Hypersonic machine did not have to handle. Just because it was good in comparison to the Hypersonic machine doesn't mean that the battery life of the Sager NP8886 did not leave anything to be desired; it ran 30 minutes less than the Compaq Presario 900 and a massive 165 minutes less than the dual battery Dell Inspiron 8200.

Battery Performance MobileMark 2002 Sager NP8886 2.8GHz Dell Inspiron 8200 2.0GHz WinBook J4 2.4GHz Compaq Presario 900 1500+ 173 141 119 86 | 0 | 35 | 69 | 104 | 138 | 173 | 208

The battery life of the Sager NP8886 met the 90 minute requirement necessary to output a battery performance score, something that we were not able to do on the Hypersonic machine. Not surprisingly, the NP8886 easily dominates the other notebooks we have taken a look at in the Mobile Mark performance test because of its fast CPU. What the performance chart does demonstrate for us is that the Sager NP8886 runs at its full speed while on battery life. We have seen other desktnote systems out there that lower their clock speed while on battery power to preserve battery life but this is not the case with the NP8886.