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Brand new eMachines W3819
All of $250, yes it was marked refurbished, but it works fine.
Celeron D-360, 3.45GHz, 512MB, 120MB, Vista Home Basic
Yes, yes, I know. "Don't buy anything with Vista Home Basic; don't buy
Vista w/o 1G RAM." I've given that same advice. But we're a non-profit and
really, really need to replace our PIII/800s. We bought 10 of 'em.
Surprise, it turns out to be a pretty good machine. But our members hate
change (average age = 65+) and want their XP back. So with a bit of help
turned one into a dual-boot, Vista and XP. Works great.
I'm an engineer and like to measure things. Been running benchmarks since
my first Z80/4MHz. This dual-booting thingy is a great platform to compare
Vista and XP - same everything except the OS. Same drivers were used on
both sides with the exception of the display. Vista driver didn't work on
XP, XP driver didn't work on Vista.
Somewhat surprising to me was there was no significant difference between
the two OSs for Spinrite, HDTune, PC Wizard or AIDA32. I didn't even write
them down as they were so close. But then I ran the 'PassMark' demo
(http://www.passmark.com/.) Wow - a 36% difference between Vista and XP!
In the 'Graphics 2D-Lines' test there was a 83% difference!
Here are the results:
(Change to a mono-spaced font to make the columns line up.)
eMachines W3619
Test Vista XP % Diff
CPU - Integer Math 60.28 71.10 15
CPU - Floating Point Math 252.11 329.22 23
CPU - Find Prime Numbers 173.06 204.63 15
CPU - SSE/3DNow! 1068.47 1392.96 23
CPU - Compression 1767.78 2021.87 13
CPU - Encryption 17.94 20.37 12
CPU - Image Rotation 195.79 232.13 16
CPU - String Sorting 776.06 880.59 12
Graphics 2D - Lines 13.88 82.42 *83*
Graphics 2D - Rectangles 23.19 50.42 54
Graphics 2D - Shapes 8.68 23.69 63
Graphics 2D - Fonts and Text 70.87 112.9 37
Graphics 2D - GUI 51.36 150.74 66
Graphics 3D - Simple 191.52 217.48 12
Graphics 3D - Medium 30.95 54.63 43
Graphics 3D - Complex 3.61 7.55 52
Memory - Allocate Small Block 974.56 1447.78 33
Memory - Read Cached 941.45 1970.22 52
Memory - Read Uncached 814.95 1827.35 55
Memory - Write 604.16 1117.27 46
Memory - Large RAM 17.76 57.51 69
Disk - Sequential Read 20.29 50.86 60
Disk - Sequential Write 20.47 51.24 60
Disk - Random Seek + RW 2.04 3.4 40
CD - Read 3.78 3.47 -9
CPU Mark 356.53 438.25 19
2D Graphics Mark 110.7 287.74 62
Memory Mark 247.88 474.65 48
Disk Mark 154.78 381.57 59
CD Mark 463.08 425.33 -9
3D Graphics Mark 72.35 89.5 19
PassMark Rating 237.7 369.38 36
I won't say if that's good or not (those d*m EULAs!) but I sure hope the
Vista SP1 fixes this!
-bb
All of $250, yes it was marked refurbished, but it works fine.
Celeron D-360, 3.45GHz, 512MB, 120MB, Vista Home Basic
Yes, yes, I know. "Don't buy anything with Vista Home Basic; don't buy
Vista w/o 1G RAM." I've given that same advice. But we're a non-profit and
really, really need to replace our PIII/800s. We bought 10 of 'em.
Surprise, it turns out to be a pretty good machine. But our members hate
change (average age = 65+) and want their XP back. So with a bit of help
turned one into a dual-boot, Vista and XP. Works great.
I'm an engineer and like to measure things. Been running benchmarks since
my first Z80/4MHz. This dual-booting thingy is a great platform to compare
Vista and XP - same everything except the OS. Same drivers were used on
both sides with the exception of the display. Vista driver didn't work on
XP, XP driver didn't work on Vista.
Somewhat surprising to me was there was no significant difference between
the two OSs for Spinrite, HDTune, PC Wizard or AIDA32. I didn't even write
them down as they were so close. But then I ran the 'PassMark' demo
(http://www.passmark.com/.) Wow - a 36% difference between Vista and XP!
In the 'Graphics 2D-Lines' test there was a 83% difference!
Here are the results:
(Change to a mono-spaced font to make the columns line up.)
eMachines W3619
Test Vista XP % Diff
CPU - Integer Math 60.28 71.10 15
CPU - Floating Point Math 252.11 329.22 23
CPU - Find Prime Numbers 173.06 204.63 15
CPU - SSE/3DNow! 1068.47 1392.96 23
CPU - Compression 1767.78 2021.87 13
CPU - Encryption 17.94 20.37 12
CPU - Image Rotation 195.79 232.13 16
CPU - String Sorting 776.06 880.59 12
Graphics 2D - Lines 13.88 82.42 *83*
Graphics 2D - Rectangles 23.19 50.42 54
Graphics 2D - Shapes 8.68 23.69 63
Graphics 2D - Fonts and Text 70.87 112.9 37
Graphics 2D - GUI 51.36 150.74 66
Graphics 3D - Simple 191.52 217.48 12
Graphics 3D - Medium 30.95 54.63 43
Graphics 3D - Complex 3.61 7.55 52
Memory - Allocate Small Block 974.56 1447.78 33
Memory - Read Cached 941.45 1970.22 52
Memory - Read Uncached 814.95 1827.35 55
Memory - Write 604.16 1117.27 46
Memory - Large RAM 17.76 57.51 69
Disk - Sequential Read 20.29 50.86 60
Disk - Sequential Write 20.47 51.24 60
Disk - Random Seek + RW 2.04 3.4 40
CD - Read 3.78 3.47 -9
CPU Mark 356.53 438.25 19
2D Graphics Mark 110.7 287.74 62
Memory Mark 247.88 474.65 48
Disk Mark 154.78 381.57 59
CD Mark 463.08 425.33 -9
3D Graphics Mark 72.35 89.5 19
PassMark Rating 237.7 369.38 36
I won't say if that's good or not (those d*m EULAs!) but I sure hope the
Vista SP1 fixes this!
-bb