The company hasn't released the results of any benchmark tests yet, making it difficult to gauge the company's claims about Crusoe's performance.

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Benchmark tests of speed used by the computer industry promised an impressive speed gain of around 25% over the 500 MHz machine I was used to.

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As for the performance freaks, you can enable Ultimate mode which is right at the bottom of the "ASUS customized setting" menu, but we didn't notice any performance gain during our benchmark tests.

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Parallels Desktop 7 beat the leading competitor in nearly 75 percent of the benchmark tests conducted by MacTech magazine and won 60 percent of the tests by a factor of 10 percent or more.

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Having been caught out by the Internet-stoked demand for web and application servers as well as the very late arrival of Windows 2000 and Intel's Itanium chip, both have recently produced high-end servers that have outscored Sun's in benchmark tests.

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And due to the current state of the silicon (even though vendors like ZTE are already sampling it), we weren't allowed to run any benchmark tests on the Snapdragon 800 development devices on display just yet, though we've been told to stay tuned in June.

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Neffenger's tests employed VolanoMark, a 100% Pure Java server benchmark characterized by long-lasting network connections and high thread counts.

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