The port assortment on the IdeaPad U350 is solid and functional, and while it doesn’t have an ExpressCard slot, it does throw in an HDMI-out and an SD card slot. Internally, the IdeaPad U350 has both 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, so it doesn’t lack for wireless–although 3G isn’t really an option without buying a USB modem.
Our unit came configured with a 2.1 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T8100, a 250 gb Sata 5400 drive, 3gb of RAM, IBM ThinkPad A21 battery,and an Intel X3100 with shared memory. Upgrading looks slim to none with no obvious improvements unless you went with more RAM or a faster hard drive – but even then the RAM woulnd’t be used by the 32bit Windows Vista Home Premium operating system. And at this price point, why bother.
You’ll find a useful assortment of ports and connections on the NW125. HDMI is featured, for outputting video to an HDTV, as is VGA for connecting to older computer monitors. FireWire (i.Link in Sony’s parlance) makes the cut, joining a trio of USB 2.0 ports and an eSATA port.
And no, the “tune up” the guy in the store tries to sell you is worthless. You need a straight up clean install of Windows Vista with none of the bloatware that comes with the notebook PA3307U-1BAS battery.
Oh, and the hard drive runs well. Seriously, what did you expect? It’s a 5400rpm notebook hard drive, these things are standard these days. It’s just fine for your needs. It stores your files and it lets you access them.
The ASUS(Asus Eee PC 900 battery ) comes bundled with Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP2 and a 90-day trial edition of Norton Anti-virus. Upon startup, you’ll be presented with a vast number of utilities that will preoccupy a portion of the taskbar. ASUS felt that the laptop could be optimized completely with their own set of utilities preinstalled. They seem to add bloat more than anything else, but fortunately you can easily uninstall the software with ease.
Since the integrated Radeon Xpress 200M falls behind in 3D performance and there is no discrete graphics option, this wont be a system for gamers. Despite this fact, the Radeon Xpress 200M offers good system performance, Windows Vista compatibility,HP Pavilion ZD7000 battery, low power consumption, and lowers the overall cost of the unit; making it the perfect choice for the dv5000z. We wouldnt mind seeing a discrete graphics option thrown in there, but we realize it would cost more to even have that as a choice and thus reduce the incredible value in this machine.
The F6Ve was portable and easy to carry or fit in a bag. The keyboard was okay to type on for average periods of time, but any long missives you may need to write should be saved for your desktop machine.
I used the F6Ve mostly for web browsing, and watching videos on Hulu and Youtube. For these activities, the F6Ve was a shining star. As mentioned earlier, video looks remarkably good, even at crappy Youtube resolution, and the F6Ve was great for getting my daily fix of gadget blogs. If you notice though, Sony VAIO PCG-FR130 battery,these were all activities that didn’t require a great deal of mouse usage, so I suppose these results may be a bit skewed because they don’t really exploit the laptop’s biggest weakness, which is the touchpad and mouse buttons.
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