A few weeks ago I delved into details about the battery life on the Intel McCaslin (UMP 2007) platform and revealed that its not a major step forward. Its all good steady progress but nothing that’s going to amaze anyone. Franks (AKA Ctitanic) has just done a similar job and revealed some details about the performance of the McCaslin platform.
He’s taken a Q1 Ultra benchmark that I found yesterday and has run three other UMPCs through the same test to give us a comparison. I guess we shouldn’t be surprised that a Pentium-M clocked at 20% less than normal and having 1/4 of the L2 cache is not a high-end performer but somehow, it is still an eye opening result. Everyone that’s used the Q1 Ultra has been positive about the performance and this reflects the fact that how a PC feels is unrelated to its performance statistics. Take the Kohjinsha SA1 – its one of the most useable UMPCs I ever had but the processor specifications on it were almost embarrassing.
Frank rounds up with a nice summary.
I can conclude that the overall performance of the Q1U will be about the same or a little bit better in a few tasks than the one we see in current Q1 and Q1p. The Q1U is not that fast ultra powerful machine that many have imagined. And I do not think that this was the idea behind the Q1U design.
Check out Franks findings at his UltraMobilePCTips website.
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