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Performance overview of the Sony Vaio UX280P
Well, I've successfully swapped the Vaio UX390N that was quite pricey for a 280P off eBay that was a great deal. Overall, it was about $1500 less. So, what did I lose for that change?
Specification-wise, it's got a 40GB 4200rpm disk and a 1.2GHz processor. Aside from being silver, that's about the end of the differences. I've already upgraded the Windows XP Pro to Windows Vista Business. Although I plan on upgrading the hard drive later, I though I'd do the same benchmarks as before to compare the two models.
- PCMark05: 1273
- 3DMark06: 95
- Windows Experience Index:
- Processor: 2.7
- Memory (RAM): 4.3
- Graphics: 3.5
- Gaming Graphics: 2.6
- Primary Hard Disk: 3.7
- SiSoft Sandra:
- Processor Arithmetic:
- Dhrystone ALU: 4068 MIPS
- Whetstone iSSE3: 2999 MFLOPS
- Processor Multi-Media:
- Integer x8 iSSE2: 9317 it/s
- Floating-Point x4 iSSE2: 12557 it/s
- Physical Disks: 24MBps-11MBps
- Processor Arithmetic:
- SuperPi
- 1M: 1m 13s
- 2M: 2m 9s
- 4M: TBD (the version I grabbed crashes)
Well, that's it for this time. As you'll probably have noticed, it's missing a few minor numbers and at least one number is actually faster than the result I got for the Sony UX390N.
The overall feel of the system isn't that much slower, but things do take a bit longer to launch and startup is definitely slower. However, the speed improvements certainly weren't worth the $1500 difference between the good price I got from eBay on this and the full, retail price of the Sony UX390N.
I'll be running more tests if I can figure out where to order one of the new Toshiba 100GB 1.8" drives from. They've got a large buffer and with the greater data density, they should be a bit faster, overall.
Posted by Shane on April 21, 2007 9:30 AM | Permalink
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Comments
I just purchased a 280p also, is the HD a zif connection?
Posted by: Jim Horton | April 27, 2007 8:35 AM
Hi Jim,
The connection is supposed to be a ZIF connection. That basically makes it the same kind of drive that iPods and Zune's use.
I still haven't ordered one because I'm hoping for availability of the 100GB drive very soon.
-Shane
Posted by: Shane Conder | April 27, 2007 11:20 AM