Cloudbook (Via C7) vs. EeePC (Intel Celeron M) benchmarks
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I still haven’t been able to get my hands on a Cloudbook, but the good folks over at NotebookReview.com did and posted a very interesting review of it. Their conclusion:
…upon closer examination it’s clear that VIA and Everex had to make a number of sacrifices to bring this ultra-mobile notebook to the market for such a low price. The low-capacity slow hard drive, and slow overall performance make the CloudBook a less than compelling purchase compared to the current generation Asus Eee PC 4G.
They also report of excessive heat issues and a few other problems (apparently the Cloudbook doesn’t deal well with the small screen size and even has problems when connecting to larger external screens).
What I found most interesting were the benchmarks. Please go to to the NotebooReview.com review for all the details, but here are the highlights as far as I see them: (note, these were done under Windows XP in order to make it easier to compare with other notebooks)
- The PCMark05 scores for the 1.2GHz VIA C7-M based Cloudbook are abysmal. 612 PCMarks (compared to 1132 PCMarks for the 630MHz Intel Celeron M based EeePC).
- The wPrime (32M) time is equally bad: 249 seconds for the Cloudbook vs. 201 seconds for the EeePC.
- And finally, the SSD in the EeePC got to shine. The Cloudbook with its hard drive reached a transfer rate of 18.3 MB/sec with 34ms access time. The SSD in the EeePC is about a third faster in transfer rate (24.3 MB/sec) and of course simply blows aways the disk in the Cloudbook with 0.5ms access time.
I think the benchmarks make it clear – the Cloudbook is painfully slow compared to the EeePC.
Looking forward I can’t wait to see Benchmarks of the rumored second generation EeePC based on the Intel Atom (yep, Intel released the official processor brand for the chip codenamed Silverthorne).
(Heads up…Cloudbook owner here). It was quite an interesting article. I have to admit, I’m a little disappointed in those numbers. I’d like to run the same tests myself if possible on my own Cloudbook, though. It’s too bad most of these benchmark programs can’t take the OS out of the picture and just run raw on the hardware without the OS getting in the way. I can confirm that the internal HD on the Cloudbook is around 18-20 MB/s. Not bad really.
[...] any public information on the CPU used in the EeePC 900. And second, as I mentioned before in the Cloudbook vs EeePC 701 comparison, a Via C7-m at twice the frequency is still slightly slower than a Celeron [...]