Pioneer Powerbook

Both the Pioneer Powerbook and the IBM ThinkPad 390X came with a 450MHz Pentium HI processor and recorded the slowest clock speeds of the range reviewed.
Although the Pioneer had twice the RAM of the IBM, it was not far ahead of it in the Ziff-Davis Business Winstone 99 tests.
Pioneer is aiming this notebook at all segments: corporate, small business and consumer. However, its test results and specifications indicate average performance in all areas. It’s a classic case of ‘jack-of-all-trades, master of none’. It’s priced cheaply enough to be highly palatable for any segment, but it may not have enough grunt for some purposes.
This notebook is marred by its hard drive performance. Aside from the cheerless effort from the Dell Latitude, the Pioneer Powerbook’s drive was last in both the Ziff-Davis Business and High-End Disk WinMark 99 by a significant margin. Having a
6.4G hard disk drive is good for a notebook of this price; two of the pricier models have the same capacity.
The graphic performance makes it more suitable for gaming and entertainment than 2D business use. The Business Graphics WinMark 99 score was well below any other notebook, even those with one-third the video RAM, but the High-End Graphics WinMark 99 score was much better. In the 3D Mark 99 Max it scored the lowest of any notebook that could run it. but its performance would still be passable unless it was strained by intensive games. DVD movies looked great, which is a bonus.
Of the seven notebooks reviewed, the Pioneer Powerbook is the best-looking unit of ail with its burnished copper colour. The keyboard is large and friendly, and the glidepad is easy to use. It’s a rather inexpensive notebook, but in terms of performance, it can’t compete.