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Principled Technologies, Inc.: Battery life and performance ratings of the Gateway ID47H02u notebook
system
7. The Productivity 2007 test is complete when the notebook PC has fully depleted its battery and is no
longer operational when running on battery power.
We executed the MobileMark Productivity 2007 test three times on the system and took the median battery life
run as the representative score for that test.
Getting the MobileMark 2007 results
After each MobileMark Productivity 2007 test completed, we plugged the AC power adapter into the notebook PC
and turned on the system. MobileMark 2007 started automatically after the system booted, analyzed the test
scores, and opened the Test Results Viewer with the results from the last test.
To submit these results to BAPCo, we saved the test results directory by performing the following steps:
1. Browse to the C:\ Program Files (x86)\BAPCo\MobileMark 2007\results directory.
2. Select My Computer.
3. Select Local Disk (C:).
4. Select the Program Files directory.
5. Select the BAPCo directory.
6. Select the MobileMark2007 directory.
7. Select the results directory. (Note: The name of the directory for the Productivity 2007 results is the name
you gave the test in Step 3 of the MobileMark Productivity 2007 process.)
Measuring performance with BAPCo SYSmark 2007 Preview v1.06
Addressing antivirus software conflicts
SYSmark 2007 is not compatible with any virus-scanning software, so we uninstalled any such software that was
present on the notebook PC before we installed the benchmark.
Addressing pre-installed software conflicts
SYSmark 2007 installs the following applications, which its test scripts employ:
Adobe Photoshop 6.0.1
InterVideo WinDVD 6.0
Macromedia Flash 5.0
Microsoft Excel 2002
Microsoft Outlook 2002
Microsoft PowerPoint 2002
Microsoft Word 2002
Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable
Netscape Communicator 6.01
Network Associates McAfee VirusScan 5.13
WinZip Computing WinZip 8.0
If any of these applications are already on the system under test, they cause problems with the benchmark due to
software conflicts. To avoid any such issues, we uninstalled all conflicting pre-installed software applications,
including different versions of any of the programs SYSmark 2007 uses. We did this before we installed the
benchmark.
Setting up the test
1. Reset the system to the base test image.
2. Disable the User Account Control.
a. Click the Windows start button, and type Change User Account Settings.
b. In the User Account Control Settings window, move the slider down to Never notify.
c. Click OK.
d. Click the You must restart your computer to apply these changes pop-up message that appears
at the bottom right of the screen, and click Restart Now.
3. Insert the SYSmark 2007 Preview Disc 1 installation disc into the DVD drive.
4. In the Autoplay window that appears, click Run setup.exe.