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Toshiba Portege R600: Defying Gravity

By Aloysius Low - 16 Dec 2008

Performance Benchmarking

Performance Benchmarking

As always, matching a notebook with exact specifications is almost impossible but we've picked the following notebooks for comparison as they fall under a similar ultraportable category.

Notebook Comparison Table
Specifications / Notebook Toshiba Portege R600 Sony VAIO VGN-Z17GN Lenovo ThinkPad X300
Processor Intel Core 2 Duo processor ULV SU 9400 (1.40GHz) with 3MB L2 cache Intel Core 2 Duo processor P9500 (2.53GHz) with 6MB L2 cache Intel Core 2 Duo SL7100 (1.2GHz, 4MB L2 cache)
Chipset Intel GS45 Intel GM45 Intel GM965
FSB 800MHz 1066MHz 800MHz
Memory 3GB DDR2 4GB DDR3 2GB DDR2-667
HDD 128GB SSD 1 x Toshiba 320GB SATA (MK3252GSX 5400RPM / 8MB Buffer 6

System and Gaming Benchmarks

We've pretty much deduced earlier on that the Toshiba Portege R600 isn't going to be much of a workhorse due to its specifications, but the Portege R600 does have some surprises thanks to its SSD which helped it to obtain better scores than it would normally have scored if it were using a standard 5400RPM HDD. With a system score of 4021marks for PCMark05, the R600 wasn't exactly the lowest of the lot, but it was definitely at the lower end of things. Vantage results were pretty much expected given the results of the older PCMark05 benchmark, but then again, you weren't really expecting extremely high scores here from the R600, were you? 3DMark06 results were also more or less expected as the unit uses Intel's integrated graphics. You definitely won't be playing 3D games with maxed out settings, but we aren't expecting any miracles to happen even at the lowest settings. So it's strictly for business road warriors.

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