PCMark Music 1 test deals with three tasks:

• Web page rendering - w/ music shop content
• Audio transcoding: MP3 → WMA
• HDD: Adding music to Windows Media Player

PCMark Music 2 test transcodes audio from WAV to WMA lossless format.

PCMark Communications 1 testing suite works with three simultaneous threads:

• Data encryption: CNG AES CBC
• Data compression
• Windows Mail: Run Message Rules

PCMark Communications 2 is also a three-thread test:

• Web page rendering: open various news pages from IE 7 Favorites in separate tabs, close them one by one
• Data decryption: CNG AES CBC
• HDD: Windows Defender

PCMark Productivity 1 test edits text in WordPad application. Numerous hard-to-pronounce Finnish names should make this task harder on the system, so no other applications are running at the same time.

PCMark Productivity 2 test involved four simultaneous threads at a time:

• Windows Contacts: search
• Windows Mail: Search
• Web page rendering: Simultaneously open various pages from IE7 Favorites in separate tabs, close them one by one
• HDD: application loading