Six-Way Ubuntu Linux Laptop Benchmarks

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Six-Way Ubuntu Linux Laptop Benchmarks

The latest open-source Linux benchmarks out of Phoronix is a six-way Linux laptop performance comparison featuring laptops/ultrabooks from Lenovo, Hewlett-Packard, ASUS, and Apple...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTUzNTA

[souenzzo]

The main benchmark notebook is the battery time.
And not with synthetic benchmarks.
maybe on browsing (without flash please) or something like...

[Cyborg16]

I think it's about time you differentiate quad core and dual core+hyperthreading (both say "4 cores"). Intel CPU names are also so hard to interpret...

[Michael]

I think it's about time you differentiate quad core and dual core+hyperthreading (both say "4 cores"). Intel CPU names are also so hard to interpret...

For compatibility reasons it's always been rendered in system tables as number of logical cores.

[mendieta]

Chromebook?

I'd love to see Michael's new Acer Haswell Chromebook added!

[Michael]

I'd love to see Michael's new Acer Haswell Chromebook added!

As said in the article, the Acer C720 review with these laptop results + more will be published later in the month... The Chromebook isn't even arriving until tomorrow.

[brunis]

The main benchmark notebook is the battery time.
And not with synthetic benchmarks.
maybe on browsing (without flash please) or something like...

I agree, this was not a laptop benchmark, it was a rather tame mobile cpu/gpu benchmark.

[carewolf]

I am the only one who enjoys seeing 4-6 year old Thinkpads beat the crap out of the competition?

[Michael]

I agree, this was not a laptop benchmark, it was a rather tame mobile cpu/gpu benchmark.

If any of you have a nice simulation script for doing browser use, etc, feel free to submit it to OpenBenchmarking.org. PTS already takes care of the power monitoring and other tasks.

[mendieta]

As said in the article, the Acer C720 review with these laptop results + more will be published later in the month... The Chromebook isn't even arriving until tomorrow.

Awesome, sorry I missed that, Michael!