Now how about battery life? In the specifications on its website, Getac claims up to 12 hours of battery life for a system that is equipped with the optional secondary battery. The 9213’s standard battery is a very compact 11.1 Volt/5,200mAH (57.7 watt-hour) Li-Ion pack that fits flush into the backside of the computer. That’s a good supply of battery power for such a compact and light notebook and we eagerly awaited the results of our BatteryMon power drawdown test.
At over 1.5″ thick, Toshiba certainly had room to fit in a robust cooling system. At idle while clocked at 1GHz, the relatively power thrifty Core Solo T1300 is in the mid-30 degree Celcius range. Bump the CPU up to Maximum Performance and the temperature will idle at 40 C. Pegging the CPU won’t flog temperatures too much, staying in a relatively comfortable 50 C range.
It’s one thing to have extremely high resolution, it’s quite another to convert that into a display where things don’t look microscopic. This is where perfect sharpness, perfect stability and that difficult-to-describe “rock solid feel” come into play. You know it when you see it, and the MR-1 display definitely has it. Yes, the text and icons are all tiny as Windows XP isn’t capable of elegantly adapting to extreme screen sizes. But the display is so crisp and sharp, you have to see it to believe it. Colors are as vibrant as it gets. Anything displayed on the screen looks as if it were printed on high quality paper.
There are different kinds of consumers in the notebook market. Some people prefer laptops that are smaller, thinner, and more portable. Other people can’t live without the larger display and they’re willing to lug around something bigger as a result. Acer wants to accommodate both sets of desires.
While the two gaming rigs, the G60J and G51J, are available with 16-inch and 15.6-inch LED-backlit displays, respectively, the M60J boasts a multimedia-ready 16-inch screen, offering support for a maximum resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels. The ROG laptops are available with NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 260M graphics chip, featuring 1GB of DDR3 VRAM, while the M60J comes with the slightly lower-performance GTX 240M, also featuring 1GB of DDR3 VRAM. The laptops can be configured with up to 4GB of DDR3 memory, dual 500GB hard disk drives, a Super-Multi DVD/Blu-ray combo optical drive, built-in 2MP webcam and all the connectivity options you’ll require.
The vast majority of netbooks today ship running Windows XP Home, an operating system that does not play well with enterprise directory services. Windows 7 Starter Edition won’t support enterprise domain integration, either. HP and Dell both offer OS customization and configuration services, and companies can image the hard drive of netbooks using their own Microsoft licenses. But that extra time and expense eliminates some of the cost savings as a driver for netbook adoption.
Apple wants to go a lot further than “Wintel” has gone, however, just as Ford wants to out-mpg GM in the fuel-efficiency race. The argument can be made that Cupertino is offering a sleeker operating system in preparation for devices to come. Maybe a tablet. Maybe something that has yet to be reported. What is clear is that Apple is focusing a lot of its in-house development on small, efficient technology. Both silicon and software.
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