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Article: All-round value: BenQ Joybook R55.(Product/service evaluation)
- Article from:
- Australian PC World
- Article date:
- August 1, 2006
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Driven by an Intel Core Duo (1.66GHz) CPU and 1GB of 533MHz DDR2 RAM, BenQ's 15.4 in Joybook R55 managed to complete most tests with relative ease. It took 157 seconds to encode 53 minutes worth of WAV files to 192Kbps MP3 files; it scored 88 in PC WorldBench 5, with fast results in video editing; it scored 11,982 in 3DMark 2001 SE, thanks to the installed GeForce Go 7400, but only mustered an 814 in 3DMark 2006, so it's not suitable for newer games.
Battery life using MobileMark 2002 was two hours and twenty minutes. Our worst-case scenario test lasted one hour and fifty minutes. This isn't exceptional, but balances nicely with the size of the screen and the ...