PC Club Enpower ENP660: Back to School

Test Setup

Before we get to the benchmark results, we want to emphasize that several of the laptops are running Windows XP while the most recent laptop additions are running Windows Vista. We intend to benchmark most future laptops using Windows Vista, and over time we will remove the outdated scores. The configurations of the other laptops can be found in our previous laptop articles.

PC Club Enpower ENP660 Tested Configuration
Processor	Core 2 Duo T7100 (1.80GHz 2MB Cache 800FSB)
Chipset	Intel 965GM + ICH8M-E
Memory	2x1024MB DDR2 SO-DIMMs (Kingston B024403F) DDR2-667 5-5-5-15
Graphics	Intel GMA X3100
Display	15.4" WXGA (1280x800) AUO Optronics Corp AUO B154EW01 V9 (Jan 2005)
Hard Drive	120GB 5400RPM SATA (Western Digital WD1200BEVS-00LAT0)
Optical Drive	8X DVD+/-RW (HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-T20N)
Networking/Communications	Intel 4965AGN (802.11A/B/G/B) Mini PCI Wireless
Audio	Realtek ALC883
Battery	6-Cell 51.8WHr
Operating System	Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit

The PC Club ENP660 is very similar in specifications to the HP dv6500t. The main differences between the two laptops is that the HP we tested includes a T7300 (faster than the PC Club) but it also includes a 200GB 4200 RPM hard drive (slower than the PC Club). The PC Club is also using updated drivers, particularly the graphics drivers, which may impact some of the results. Really, though, if we were to use the same processor and hard drive in both laptops we would expect them to score about the same. The primary point of comparison for this review will be the HP dv6500t.