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Hi Sean, There is a
Hi Sean,There is a multitude of different benchmarks available for heavy GUI based applications. Is there one in particular you wish to test (Java Eclipse/Netbeans based, .Net based)? WIth regard to Open Office performance, how difficult is it to write a simple Basic macro in Open Office and time the results?
I suspect the point you were trying to make (and perhaps i missed it here) is that you want some measurable fashion to test multitasking performance. I know very little has really been done in this regard, but if you are still interested google back 3 or 4 years around the time that Intel announced hyper-threading in their Pentium 4 line. Most reviewers (toms hardware, anandtech et al) focussed a lot of their reviewing efforts on the multi tasking benefits.
BTW , I believe video games are still likely to be the best types of applications to test your computer hardware. Write back to me and let me know how your laptop runs Crysis at full settings ;) A modern 2008 (windows) game tests all aspects of your computer infrastructure from raw cpu, memory bandwidth, memory latency, memory capacity, cpu cache sizes, multiple cores, hard drive access and read/write performance, graphics card , sound subsystem. The list goes on. Seriously try running the latest Flight Sim from Microsoft, you will be at 50% cpu utilisation before you even start installing the darned thing... then again... that could just be vista ;)
Karl.