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Gateway M275XL

March 1st, 2004 | by Rob Curtis

This unit scored well in Sisoft Sandra 2004 and MobileMark 2002 but got low scores in 3D Mark 2001 due to the Integrated Intel Extreme 2 Graphics. The M275XL scored well below it's sister unit the Gateway 450XL, as well as the Sony VAIO PCG-Z1AP1 but beat out the 200 XL with a 2347 16-bit score and 2327 32-bit score.

The M275 XL really shines in the CPU benchmark category by soundly beating the competition. Intel has packed the 1.6GHz chip with a 400MHz bus and 1 MB L2 Cache plus other micro architecture features that enable it to score well. Sisoft Sandra 2004 CPU Arithmetic Benchmark reported a great Dhrystone score of 6302 which beats out the Intel P4 2.4 GHz chip and ties the AMD Athlon XP 2000+ 1.67GHz chip. The CPU Multi-Media Benchmark Gave excellent results with a 15181 Integer score and 16752 Floating Point score.   

System Configurations:

Gateway 275 XL

Windows XP Tablet Edition, 1.6Ghz Pentium M, 512MB DDR SDRAM 266MHZ, Intel Extreme Graphics 2, Toshiba MK6022GAX 60GB Hard Drive

Gateway 200XL
Windows XP Professional; 1.6GHz Intel Pentium M; 512MB DDR SDRAM 266MHz; Intel Extreme Graphics; Toshiba MK6022GAX 60GB Hard Drive

Sony VAIO PCG-Z1A
Windows XP Home; 1.3GHz Intel Pentium M; 512MB DDR SDRAM 266MHz; ATI Mobility Radeon 16MB; Hitachi DK23EA-60 60GB 4,200rpm

Gateway DS 450 XL
Windows XP Home; 1.5GHz Intel Pentium M; 512MB DDR SDRAM 266MHz; ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 32MB; Toshiba MK4018GAP 40GB 4,200rpm