Compaq Presario 900 1500+: The Radeon IGP Goes Mobile

Performance - MobileMark 2002 and Startup Times

We recently started using BAPCo's MobileMark 2002 last week in our WinBook J4 2.4 GHz notebook review. We discussed how MobileMark 2002 represented a big step forward for the mobile benchmarking world, enabling much needed Windows XP support and incorporating a full new suite of programs.

Battery Performance MobileMark 2002 Compaq Presario 900 1500+ 86 | 0 | 17 | 34 | 52 | 69 | 86 | 103

MobileMark 2002 will not run on the ECS i-Buddie XP due to the simple fact that it doesn't contain a battery. We were therefore not able to compare the performance of the Presario 900 on battery power to the i-Buddie XP. If you are curious how the 2.4GHz Pentium 4 WinBook J4 did in the test, check it out.

Battery Life (minutes) MobileMark 2002 Compaq Presario 900 1500+ 170 | 0 | 34 | 68 | 102 | 136 | 170 | 204

Like the performance section of MobileMark 2002, we were unable to compare the Presario 900 with the i-Buddie XP.

The Presario 900 1500+ was able to run for a very impressive two hours and fifty minutes. This actually also happened to be the same length of time that the WinBook J4 2.4GHz machine was able to run. Note that the battery used in the Presario 900 is substantially smaller than the one in the J4 and that the two run times suggest that the power consumption on the Presario 900 system is fairly low.

Boot Time (seconds) ECS i-Buddie XP 1500+ Compaq Presario 900 1500+ 31 39 | 0 | 8 | 16 | 23 | 31 | 39 | 47

Like all the notebooks we receive, we tested the Compaq Presario 900 1500+ to see how long it took to go from off to Windows. Out test shows that the boot time of the Presario 900 is slower than the boot time of the i-Buddie XP. We can attribute this to the fact that the i-Buddie XP is actually a desknote system based on desktop components. Previous tests have also shown the i-Buddie XP to be the most rapidly booting system to date.

For comparison sake, if we were to place the Presario 900 up against the other notebooks we have reviewed, the system would have been the second slowest to go from start to finish, 8 seconds slower than the WinBook J4 2.4 GHz.

Unfortunately we were unable to run our other startup time tests on the Compaq Presario 900. Our unit was a preproduction unit and we experienced problems enabling standby and hibernate modes in Windows XP with the system. There is no question at all that shipping Presario 900 systems will not have this problem (Compaq would never let such a problem fly).