PaceBook PaceBlade: The Tablet PC Arrives

Performance - BatteryMark 2001

Battery Life (minutes) Toshiba 1905-S277 1.6GHz Compaq Presario 2800T 1.7GHz PaceBlade PaceBook 600MHz WinBook N4 1.8GHz ASUS T9400 900MHz 239 178 167 155 153 | 0 | 48 | 96 | 143 | 191 | 239 | 287

Even with its battery saving CPU, the PaceBook is not able to out do much of the notebook competition when it comes to power. Because the PaceBook does not have the luxury of including a larger, heavier battery (for size and weight reasons), the system's battery only powered the PaceBook for two hours and forty-seven minutes. This put the battery life of the PaceBook in the middle of the pack and not dominating the competition as we would have expected it to.

Performance - Startup Times

Boot Time (seconds) Compaq Presario 2800T 1.7GHz ASUS T9400 900MHz Toshiba 1905-S277 1.6GHz WinBook N4 1.8GHz PaceBlade PaceBook 600MHz 31 34 36 37 84 | 0 | 17 | 34 | 50 | 67 | 84 | 101

As the benchmarks proved, the PaceBook system is slow and this is reflected in the system's boot time. It took 84 seconds, one minute and twenty-four seconds, to go from a black screen into Windows XP Professional. This was significantly longer than it took for any of the other laptops we have seen to boot.

Out of Standby Time (seconds) WinBook N4 1.8GHz Toshiba 1905-S277 1.6GHz Compaq Presario 2800T 1.7GHz PaceBlade PaceBook 600MHz 6 6 7 11 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 11 | 13

Like one would expect, the time it took for the PaceBook to come out of standby mode was again the longest of all mobile systems we have seen. It took the PaceBook 11 seconds to return from standby, whereas the WinBook and Toshiba systems took only 6 seconds to do the same thing.

Out of Hibernate Time (seconds) WinBook N4 1.8GHz Toshiba 1905-S277 1.6GHz Compaq Presario 2800T 1.7GHz PaceBlade PaceBook 600MHz 16 17 19 41 | 0 | 8 | 16 | 25 | 33 | 41 | 49

Coming out of hibernation is similar to performing a cold boot and we should therefore not be surprised that the PaceBook took significantly longer than the other mobile systems to return form hibernate mode.