Inside Windows I found the typical array of bloatware including McAfee Internet Security, eBay Worldwide, Bing Bar and Fooz Kids, just to name a few. In total, I removed 12 pre-installed programs, which was actually fewer than I anticipated. The level of bloatware on the S5 isn’t outrageous like we’ve seen on other systems but it’s a trend I’d like to see done away with.
Benchmarks Results
The iTunes encoding tests consist of converting 14 MP3s (119MB) to 128Kbps ACC files and measuring the operation’s duration in seconds. For file transfers, we measure how long it takes to copy two sets of files from one location to another on the same hard drive. On the small files test we transfer 557 MP3s, totaling 2.56GB. For the large file, these same MP3s were zipped into a single file measuring 2.52GB.
13.3" 1366x768 LED-backlit display Intel Core i5-3317U (1.7GHz - 2.6GHz) 4GB DDR3 RAM Intel HD 4000 Graphics 2 x 128GB SSD RAID0 Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
15.6" 1366x768 LED-backlit display Intel Core i5-3317U (1.7GHz - 2.6GHz) 6GB DDR3 RAM Intel HD 4000 Graphics + GeForce GT 640M LE 1GB 20GB SSD + 500GB 5400RPM HDD Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
13.3" 1366x768 LED-backlit display Intel Core i5-2467M (1.6GHz - 2.3GHz) 4GB DDR3 RAM Intel HD 3000 Graphics 128GB SSD (Samsung PM800, SATA 3Gb/s) Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
13.3" 1440x900 LED-backlit display Intel Core i5-3427U (1.8GHz - 2.8GHz) 4GB DDR3 RAM Intel HD 4000 Graphics 128GB SSD Mac OS X, Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
