What benchmarking software is out there atm that gives resonable results on Notebooks for things like disk speed, memory speed, battery life, video, processor performance etc?

We have some new Dell notebooks to evaluate and would like to compare iwth our current notebooks for performance difference.

I am not after anything fancy just something that will hopefully give a neutral unbias result.

We currently use Battery Eater for the battery test and it seems to be decent just need to do the others i guess.

3d Mark 200x is out of the question.

Can't go past SiSoft Sandra really - theres a local download on OCAU for it, but it will give you specs/benchmarks on each of the required main categories (memory, hard disk, etc) it wont do video that great though.

I tend to like Rightmark's set of free benchmarking and tweaking tools and highly recommend them. They have CPU, memory, graphics and audio benchmarking tools.

Info: http://rightmark.org/
Download: http://cpu.rightmark.org/download.shtml

last edited by parabol at 09:51:28 28/Jul/06

Thanks guys will look at both today.

Yeah, I'd go with Sandra, though frankly when I look at purchasing a new notebook, I'd like to be able to run one of my main ant build scripts on it since most of the work I do these days is compilation.

Quake 3 is a good memory test (though it's also a useful CPU/GPU test in some cases).

http://www.passmark.com/

I'm still using Ver 4... haven't tried the new 5* as yet