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TEST RESULTS
System Power Draw
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Test Results: System Power
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Test State
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Lenovo Q100
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Lenovo Q110
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Idle
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13W
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17W
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CPU Load
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16W
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20W
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CPU + GPU
Load
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20W
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32W
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The ION powered Q110 pulled about 4W more from the wall than the Q100 when
the GPU was not actively used. When a GPU load was applied using FurMark, the
difference jumped to 12W.
Video Playback
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Test Results: Video Playback
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Test State
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Lenovo Q100
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Lenovo Q110
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Avg.
CPU
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System Power
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Avg. CPU
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System Power
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Rush Hour
(1080p H.264)
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92%
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18W
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20%
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21W
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Coral Reef
(WMV-HD)
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60%
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18W
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71%
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23W
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Undead Battle
(720p x264)
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86%
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18W
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50%
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22W
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Spaceship
(1080p x264)
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100%
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18W
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48%
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25W
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Gray boxes: flawed but watchable
Pink boxes: failure, unwatchable
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Of the four clips we played for comparison, the Q100 was only able to play
one of them without issue, a 720p x264 video. As you can see from the table
above, video hardware acceleration makes a huge difference — with ION the
Q110 played through our test suite with relative ease, with the exception of
the VC-1 encoded Coral Reef clip, which elicited high CPU utilization. VC-1
is a commonly found on Blu-ray movies, so a single core Atom probably isn't
enough for BD playback via an external Blu-ray drive. H.264 playback was a breeze
though and both our 720p and 1080p x264-encoded MKVs (the format popular among
file-sharers) played smoothly with only 50% CPU use when played with MPC-HC
with CoreAVC/CUDA.
3DMark Results
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3DMark05 Score
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Test
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Lenovo Q100
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Lenovo Q110
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Score
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220
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2420
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The Q110 doesn't make a stellar gaming machine, but it is still an order of
magnitude better than the third-rate SiS graphics on the Q100. Its 3DMark05 result
was more than 10x higher. For older games at lower resolutions it should be
sufficient.
Subjective Performance
On previous Atom platforms, we've felt the subjective performance and responsiveness
was a little slow, but tolerable. Unfortunately, because the Q110 ships with
Vista Home Premium instead of XP, this is no longer true. This choice allows
the system to qualify for a free Windows 7 upgrade, but it comes at the cost
of a very slow out-of-the-box experience. There was a noticeable delay when
launching programs and the system got bogged down with any sort of multitasking.
Installing/uninstalling programs was painful and the overall responsiveness
was poor even after disabling Vista's eye candy, indexing service, system restore,
etc. The Q110 also ships with a bit more pre-installed software than the Q100,
but less than most other brand new PCs: Adobe Air and Reader, Cyberlink PowerDVD
and TrendMicro Internet Security. Upon boot-up, TrendMicro ate up all the CPU
cycles for several minutes.
A dual core version would have handled Vista a lot better, but given the form
factor it might have been difficult to do without cranking the fan speed up
to very high levels. The system does have an extra 1GB of RAM, but the processor
simply isn't fast enough to deal with Vista. The Q110 is a casualty of Microsoft's
decision to exclude XP from its free Windows 7 upgrade program. Interestingly,
Lenovo still lists the Q110 as shipping with Vista, so even after a month since
Windows 7's release, Q110 buyers will still have to put up with some pain while
they await their copy of Windows 7 in the mail.
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