PC Magazine's Winstone Test Suite is an excellent benchmarking tool for testing the CPU, memory, and overall system performance in business and professional applications. Content Creation Winstone focuses on common media intensive tasks, while Business Winstone assesses general workstation application performance. Below is a breakdown of each package's software complement that is used to issue an overall score when complete.
| Content Creation 2004 v1.0.1 | Business Winstone 2004 v1.0.1 |
- Adobe Photoshop 7.0.1
- Adobe Premiere 6.50
- Macromedia Director MX 9.0
- Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 6.1
- Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 9 Version 9.00.00.2980
- NewTek's LightWave 3D 7.5b
- Steinberg WaveLab 4.0f
| - Microsoft Access 2002
- Microsoft Excel 2002
- Microsoft FrontPage 2002
- Microsoft Outlook 2002
- Microsoft PowerPoint 2002
- Microsoft Project 2002
- Microsoft Word 2002
- Norton Antivirus Professional Edition 2003
- WinZip 8.1
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Rounding out the benchmarks, we saw an interesting picture with the Winstone test suite. Like we saw on a couple of occassions earlier, the S-presso managed its best score with Content Creation with integrated graphics. In fact, it was the best score of the three scenarios, topping out at 21 points. The score slipped a fraction with the 6800 installed while the AI7 lagged by 1.5 points. Conversely, Business Winstone was the complete opposite, with the S-presso adding 1.2 points to its score with the 6800 installed. The AI7 topped this test at 19.2, a full 1.4 points over the S-presso's best score.
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