Toshiba Satellite 1905-S277 Notebook

Performance - Content Creation

Content Creation Performance Internet Content Creation SYSMark 2002 Desktop 1.6GHz Desktop 1.5GHz Toshiba 1905-S277 Desktop 1.4GHz Desktop 1.3GHz 176 168 164 156 153 | 0 | 35 | 70 | 106 | 141 | 176 | 211

Like we mentioned before, the notebook system did better in the Internet Content Creation part of SYSMark 2002 than it did in any other part. Here the Satellite 1905-S277 performed almost like the desktop Pentium 4 clocked at 1.5GHz, falling only 2.4% behind it.

Look at BAPCo's whitepaper on the benchmark, we can see that SYSMark 2002 is more I/O intensive than SYSMark 2001. This can explain why the Satellite 1905-S277 performed slower in comparison to the desktop Pentium 4 system than the ASUS T9 did in comparison to the desktop Pentium III system (as the ASUS review used SYSMark 2001).

Content Creation Performance Content Creation Winstone 2002 Desktop 1.6GHz Desktop 1.5GHz Desktop 1.4GHz Toshiba 1905-S277 Desktop 1.3GHz ASUS T9 900MHz 22.5 20.7 19.9 18.9 17.8 11.7 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 14 | 18 | 23 | 27

We found in our last notebook review, the ASUS T9 review, that Content Creation Winstone 2002 is extremely I/O intensive and thus is typically problematic for notebook systems. The Toshiba Satellite 1905-S277's performance in this benchmark was actually not so bad, performing between the level of the desktop 1.3GHz system and the 1.4GHz one. The Satellite 1905-S277 performed 19% slower than the desktop 1.6GHz system.

Since we also ran the ASUS T9 notebook through the Content Creation Winstone 2002 tests, we included this notebook in the graph for comparison. As you can see, the Satellite 1905-S277 is clearly faster; in fact it is faster than the ASUS T9 on AC power by 61.5%.