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madmax2009's Review

24th Jul 2008

Overall Rating

5 stars
  • Value for money
    5 stars
  • Screen Quality
    5 stars
  • Ease of Use
    4.5 stars
  • Time Laptop Owned
    Less than a Week
  • Battery Life
    4 stars
Good Points

Brilliant product, expected to downgrade as expensive, broken HP Pavilion dv8219ea computer could not be replaced for me.
It's certainly a portable thing.
It has fairly good battery life, up to 3 hours on Mac OS X (Intel Core 2 Centrino Duo) and Linux, lasts just over 2 hours on high performance on Vista.
Fan can operate faster.
Good graphics, DirectX (DX) 10 with Shader Model (SM) 4, HD and works good.
Runs most DX10 games smoothly, with the exception of DX10.1 and SM 4,1.
MS Flight Simulator X works fine on top performance on Vista Ultimate and Home Premium.
OpenGL 2.0 works on it too, quite good (on Mac OS X, Linux and Vista).
I have not tested XP and earlier.
Halo 3 works fine.
World Of Warcraft works fine.
Visual Studio 2008 works well and smoothly on it, seems to compile on x86 and x64 chip-sets finely.
Lots of other stuff works fine on it.
Good hard drive space, 250GB flat, 200GB left when Vista is installed. I have 6 partitions, 1 recovery (don't know if it was included), 2 (not sure), 3 system (not sure), 4 Vista 120GB, 5 Mac OS X 40GB, 6 Linux 40GB and Vista offline storage space.
Looks like it's compatible with Windows Vienna's specifications.
You'll like it.
Nice 2-way left and right scroll Touchpad, fully marked (num-pad in QWERTY) keyboard.
Lock opposite side of charger wire entry.
Charger pack glows green, showing it is charging (even when not plugged into laptop if fully charged).


Bad Points

Keyboard manager requires uninstall if it annoys you too much (pops up keys in middle of screen like Caps Lock and Mute).
Not a lot of online support, requires a good warantee and guarantee.
Charger pack gets very hot in long, extensive or hard core use. Keep charger pack in cool, dry place, away from inflammable materials.


General Comments

It's ideal for all-in-one gaming, TV, media, MP3s, software and game development (Windows and other OSs (Operating Systems).
Businesses on the go.
3D social networking.
PS2 emulation (OpenGL 2.0 and DX8).
PS1 emulation (OpenGL 1.0 and DX7).
XBox emulation (OpenGL 2.0 and DX8).
People who like to rip / burn DVD and CDs.
It might be worth thinking about buying a Blu-Ray drive for it.
Overall, the best of the cheapest (under £1,000.00p GBP).

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  • gadget2000 on 3rd Jan 2009

    I found this review helpful because... your information is very informative. After reading i went out and bought one and i am very happy with it.Many thanks.

    One question, i would love to put osx on this laptop and have tried many ways and spent hours with leo 4 all etc... . If you could give me a few pointers i would be very grateful