

The dm1z lasted 6 hours and 37 minutes on the LAPTOP Battery Test (web surfing via Wi-Fi). One area where AMD-powered notebooks have traditionally suffered compared to their Intel counterparts is endurance. Content such as the Tron: Legacy trailer was smooth and crisp, and audio was perfectly in sync with video.
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When we output full HD videos to the TV, we measured frame rates of 60 fps.
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We then connected the dm1z to a 32-inch 1080p TV using HDMI. By comparison, the 1215N managed 28 fps using the recommended settings. Maxing everything out dropped the game to 13 fps. At the recommended settings (good, in the dm1z's case), the system managed 24 frames per second as we flew our character around. That same slight margin of difference held when we fired up World of Warcraft. Still, the EeePC beat the dm1z, scoring 2,692 on the same test. It even creams the ultraportable average of 1,367. The dm1z returned a score of 2,217 in 3DMark06, which is about 1,000 points above the ThinkPad X100e (1,080), the Dell M101z (1,309), and the Toshiba T215D (1,162).


Like the CPU, the integrated AMD Radeon HD 6310 GPU provided performance between Intel's integrated and Nvidia's Ion graphics. That's even slower than the netbook average (18.9 MBps). That's twice as fast as the Dell Inspiron Duo (14:44), and much better than the 1215N (12:08) and the Aspire 1410 (11:31). Despite having a 7,200-rpm, 320GB hard drive, the dm1z was slow to duplicate a 5GB folder of multimedia it took 4 minutes and 36 seconds, a rate of 18.4 MBps. The dm1z's time also falls between Atom-powered netbooks like the 1215N (3:17) and older AMD-powered machines such as the Dell M101z (2:16).Ĭonverting a five-minute 1080p video to an iPod touch format using MediaShow Espresso took 7 minutes and 21 seconds. That's more than twice as fast as the netbook average (5:56), but still a minute slower than the ultraportable average (1:58). The dm1z took 2 minutes and 45 seconds to transcode a five-minute, 114MB MPEG4 to AVI using Oxelon Media Encoder. However, synthetic benchmarks are one thing, and real-world tests are another. Even the Acer Aspire 1410, which has a 1.2-GHz Intel Celeron SU2300 CPU, fared better (2,475). However, the dm1z is 1,400 points below the ultraportable average, and comes up short compared to the Lenovo Thinkpad X100e (2,382), which has a dual-core AMD Turion processor, and the Dell Inspiron M101z (2,431), which has a 1.3-GHz AMD Athlon CPU. That's well above the netbook average (1,351), and beats out the 1215N (1,921) which has a 1.8-GHz Intel Atom D525, and the Toshiba Satellite T215D (1,938), which has a 1.7-GHz AMD Athlon II Neo K125 CPU. The dual-core 1.6-GHz AMD E-350 CPU and 3GB of RAM powered the dm1z to a PCMark Vantage score of 2,198. It's definitely faster than dual-core Atom netbooks, but certainly not as speedy as more premium ultraportables. The Pavilion dm1z uses AMD's new Fusion APU, which combines the GPU and the CPU on one chip.
