Dell Inspiron 8600: Mobile Multimedia goes Wide Screen

General Usage Performance

The Dell Inspiron 8600 uses the Pentium-M 1.7GHz, which happens to be the highest rated Pentium-M on the market. Ergo, it wasn't a shock to see the Dell Inspiron 8600 lead the Centrino pack. We saw previously the Pentium-M 1.6GHz processors lead over a desktop Pentium 4 2.4GHz processor in this scenario, so additionally, it was expected to see the 8600 lead over the desktop platform.




Again, the 8600 takes the lead with 35% over the desktop Pentium 4 2.4GHz platform. Now, we see the Dell Latitude D800 fall below the desktop platform, and we continue to see this into the rest of the benchmark runs.