DESKTOP REPLACEMENTS

The Desktop Replacement laptop is the powerhouse of the portable computing world, offering everything that a desktop PC has to offer but in a form factor that can be slipped away into a draw. Such laptops are destined to spend most of their lives on a desk. Therefore, battery life plays a secondary role to performance and usability. On the following pages we have eight machines that represent the best that powerhouse portable computing in this country has to currently offer.

CONTENTS
AJP D870P
APPLE POWERBOOK G4 17-INCH
FUJITSU SIEMENS CELSIUS MOBILE H210
HP PAVILION ZD7170EA
MESH COMPUTERS ULTIMA 3.4GHZ PLUS
ROCKDIRECT PEGASUS TI
SONY VAIO VGN-A117S
TOSHIBA SATELLITE P20-504

REVIEW CO-ORDINATOR:
Roger Kirkwood

REVIEWS:
Michael Browne
Roger Kirkwood

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Adrian Lyon

BENCHMARKING
The WL Performance benchmarks are designed to offer the reader a chance to compare laptops on an even plain, simulating real-world experiences to test the components in battery life mode. Obviously, if your system will be plugged in to mains power for a large portion of the time, you will see an improvement over the benchmarks registered in our tests. The 3DMark 2001 SE test is carried out with the system running on mains power, as it is unlikely that users will wish to test their system’s 3D accelerator to the max when running on battery power.

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