Ei System 3103 Review

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shpongled's Review of Ei System 3103 Laptop

1st Nov 2009

Overall Rating

2 stars
  • Value for money
    1 stars
  • Screen Quality
    4 stars
  • Ease of Use
    1 stars
  • Time Laptop Owned
    Over 1 Year
  • Battery Life
    2 stars

Okay, the Ei System 3103. I do not actually own this laptop thankfully. That pleasure is my sisters, but i've had extensive experience (every time I see her) of trying to eek out a little more performance from this god foresaken machine. Before she bought it I had never heard of Ei System, and i've been building pc's for more years than I care to remember.

The problem is, as has been stated by other reviewers, that it comes with only 512mb of ram installed, and running Vista. Saying that this is 'not quite enough for vista' is the understatement of the century. Running is the wrong word for what it does with Vista, it is PAINFULLY slow, vitually unusable. Starting up takes ages, and due to the low amount of ram the hard drive just thrashes away for ages, in which time you literally cannot do anything with it, just walk away and make a cup of tea... Even after startup the hard drive gets used way too much, again slowing everything down.

It may be cheap, but it's pretty ugly if we're being honest, battery life is poor, it's heavy, and why oh why do these manufacturers insist on releasing machines that are not capable of running the operating system installed on it? Do they not test them? It's unfair as the very people who buy them will be pretty clueless regarding pc hardware, and are taken in by the stickers with a long list of meaningless specifications printed on them.

So to conclude, learn the difference between MEMORY, and STORAGE, that will keep you out of trouble for a start, and stay away from cheap laptops running Vista, it's a false economy, especially with bricks such as the Ei 3103.

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