Toshiba Satellite 1905-S277 Notebook

Performance - Overall Performance

We recently moved to the latest version of SYSMark, SYSMark 2002. Look for this benchmark to be used in upcoming notebook reviews, replacing SYSMark 2001. For more information on SYSMark 2002, check out BAPCo's white paper on the benchmark.

General Performance Office Productivity SYSMark 2002 Desktop 1.6GHz Desktop 1.5GHz Desktop 1.4GHz Desktop 1.3GHz Toshiba 1905-S277 111 105 105 99 99 | 0 | 22 | 44 | 67 | 89 | 111 | 133

The Office Productivity SYSMark 2002 results should not be to surprising considering what we saw in our last notebook review. Although the Toshiba Satellite 1905-S277 is based on both a desktop chipset as well as a desktop CPU, it only performs at a desktop Pentium 4 1.3GHz level although the laptop chip is clocked at 1.6GHz.

This time around we can not blame a crippled system bus, as the Satellite 1905-S277 does not use shared memory for video buffer. We also cant blame the chipset or the CPU. It seems that the slower system performance in Office Productivity SYSMark 2002 can be attributed to only one thing: the slower hard drive used in the notebook system. We saw the same thing in the in the ASUS T9 notebook, as replacing the desktop system's hard drive with the notebook drive resulted in a large 15% performance decrease.

Overall Performance SYSMark 2002 Desktop 1.6GHz Desktop 1.5GHz Desktop 1.4GHz Toshiba 1905-S277 Desktop 1.3GHz 140 133 128 127 123 | 0 | 28 | 56 | 84 | 112 | 140 | 168

As a result of better performance in the SYSMark 2002 Internet Content Creation test (which we will look at next), the overall SYSMark 2002 score is higher than the score of the individual Office Productivity score. Here, the Toshiba Satellite 1905-S277 performed 10.2% slower than the desktop system at 1.6GHz. Overall in the SYSMark 2002 benchmark, the Satellite 1905-S277 performed essentially like a 1.4GHz desktop system.