Business use
The small size and low power requirements do make the Edge-HD mini PC a suitable for business, especially those who are looking to “go green” by greatly reducing their energy usage.
General light office use was to be expected it performed fairly well with the only notable being slightly longer load times than those found on a desktop. The extra few seconds you spend waiting for outlook to open has no significant impact on most business operation while the significantly less power draw has a measurable impact on facility power draw. The entire unit draws a measly 22watts of power even with intensive graphics and CPU usage.
The only significant difference was that the Intel ATOM takes several more minutes on our complex excel sheets than other business level desktops which take about 2-3 minutes to complete the Edge-HD took around 7 minutes to complete this is mainly due to its slower nature over traditional desktops which usually clock in at 2.2Ghz or higher complete with multiple threads.
General synthetic benchmarks
It is important to realize that these benchmarks are originally designed for high end desktops though the Intel atom D510 and Nvidia ION2 held their own all things considered. It is also important that although these benchmarks are synthetic in nature they can provide a good look at how a system will perform by utilizing certain high intensity CPU tasks that are part of a lot of different programs.
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3dmark vantage provides a full battery of tests usually designed to evaluate a machines gaming worthiness. Most of the tests feature rendering short clips and evaluating how the machine performs. check out our other reviews to see how this compares to some other awesome hardware. |
| Aida64 runs a battery of tests designed to run your CPU through a gauntlet of tests. This particular test the performs common tasks used during digital photo processing stressing both the CPU as well as memory read/write. The dual core atom does about as well as a low to mid range desktop processor which is surprisingly good for its ultra low voltage. |  |
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Aida64 runs a battery of tests primarily stressing CPU and memory.This particular test CPU-Queen tasks the CPU with figuring out the classic queens problem on a 10×10 sized chess board. This test is a good show of how optimized a processor is as the processor with the shortest pipeline for instructions comes out ahead. The atom did pretty good for being such a low powered processor even beating a number of dual 3ghz systems. |
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