67 verified purchasers have reviewed this product.
82% of people recommend it.
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All purchasers (66)
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| Battery life | 5.9 |
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| Design | 8.5 |
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| Performance | 8.3 |
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| Size and weight | 7.9 |
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| Value for money (at time of purchase) | 8.6 |
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| Overall rating | 8.1 |
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Chris, Merseyside
Score 10.0/10
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I use this laptop for work and the processor is extremely fast. It is very light and impressed on how easy it was to set up too.
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A longer battery life would be good as I do spend a few hours doing my work - having to re-charge can be time consuming.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful
purchased 14 Mar 2008
Anonymous verified purchaser
Score 9.0/10
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memory and speed good for my purposes ie email,internet and document preparation
keyboard and other keys fine
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battery does not last very long. This OK when at home but it would be difficult to use out and about.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful
purchased 27 Apr 2008
Anonymous verified purchaser
Score 9.0/10
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It is very good product and quite easy to get around the system
which is handy for me as i'm not really technical.
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Reviewer left no comment
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
purchased 13 Mar 2008
Anonymous verified purchaser
, “Computer illiterate.”
Score 8.0/10
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By and large easy to use. It needs to be,and is, virtually idiot proof.
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A little too sensitive for 68 year old arthritic fingers - minimises very quickly and frequently. This is not a product fault since my children do not have the same problem as I do. I find a mouse much easier.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
purchased 04 Mar 2008
ANNA, Bristol
Score 9.0/10
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everything but one bad point :)
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it's geting warm too quickly
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
purchased 18 Jul 2008
Anonymous verified purchaser
Score 7.0/10
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I am a new computer user so do not have anything to compare with but I am quite pleased with every thing.
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All of the advertising windows that kept popping up!
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
purchased 01 Mar 2008
Anonymous verified purchaser
Score 8.0/10
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Excellent little machine, has a good spec for the money and runs all the programs and games i could want it to. :)
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Vista is a problem, hopefully microsoft with bring out useful service packs!
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
purchased 29 Feb 2008
Besart , London
, “Hard working student”
Score 8.0/10
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It has a lot of quality features
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Quiet heavy and no inbuilt camera and microphone.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
purchased 12 Mar 2008
Anonymous verified purchaser
Score 8.0/10
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All good apart from what I've written in the box below.
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It sometimes turns itself off for no reason, even when connected to the mains!
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
purchased 19 Jul 2008
Anonymous verified purchaser
Score 8.0/10
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clear sound, great screen
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battery life
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
purchased 21 Jul 2008
Nick , Stevenage
, “used laptop music production ”
Score 8.0/10
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nice looking great screen and sound quality, good processing power and great value for money.
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battery only really lasts for about an hour and a half so constantly having to power up from the mains.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
purchased 01 Aug 2008
Anonymous verified purchaser
Score 8.0/10
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Really good sized screen and easy to use. Excellent value for money.
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It is quite heavy and the disk drive seems abit flimsy
purchased 21 Feb 2008
Anonymous verified purchaser
Score 9.0/10
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Quiet,easy to use.
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Battery life could be increased.
A scroller could be useful between left and right mouse buttons.
purchased 01 Mar 2008
ray, s.wales
, “i use this laptop ”
Score 8.0/10
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looks really nice, its efficient.
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none
purchased 02 Mar 2008
Valerie, London/Catford
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Value for money would be more expensive if bought brand new.
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It does not come with any instructions or leaflet advising you what the lap top can actually do. You need to have some background knowledge.
purchased 18 Sep 2008
Anonymous verified purchaser
Score 8.0/10
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Fast on internet and instant messaging. Pretty good graphics for most computer games. Very good spec for the price.
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Probably would not run the game Crysis well (but most mid range laptops would not)
purchased 18 Sep 2008
Anonymous verified purchaser
Score 8.0/10
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Goode design, excellent keyboard, plenty of RAM and storage, has firewire port.
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Poor battery life, why partition the HD into small drives?
purchased 11 Sep 2008
Christine , Co. Tyrone
Score 9.0/10
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i just love the layout and keyboard. usb ports etc all sensibily placed.
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not had it long enough to note bad points but not expecting to find any, i hope. lol
purchased 11 Sep 2008
Anonymous verified purchaser
Score 9.0/10
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Really good value for money, fast and looks good.
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Battery life could be a little longer, very occasionally when it is running off battery alone tends to crash.
purchased 26 Sep 2008
Anonymous verified purchaser
Score 9.0/10
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this item was bought for my son for playing games.It plays the newest games and has not had any problems.
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The battery life is ok but could be better.Also the wifi connection is a bit slow for online game play but connecting with an ethernet cble works fine.
purchased 30 Sep 2008
Derek, Sturminster Newton
Score 6.0/10
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Reviewer left no comment
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Finding it very difficult to start, without first having t remove the battery
purchased 27 Sep 2008
Iulia, Rugby
Score 9.0/10
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sleak design, excellent memory, easy to work with, great performance
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the garphics and sound system could be improved
purchased 17 Jul 2008
Helyn, Blyth
Score 10.0/10
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Great spec for the price - and it looks fabulous!
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Battery life not great (but no worse than other laptops)
purchased 10 Jul 2008
Sophie, Glasgow
Score 9.0/10
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The design
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RAM shared with video card so only 1.5gb effective rather than 2gb
purchased 19 Aug 2008
Anonymous verified purchaser
Score 7.0/10
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Honestly, this is a perfect lap top for browsing and downloading and playing tracks. It works fine and haven't stalled since. I would say the speed is not bad at all.
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If you're interested in gaming or watching films, dont bother!! It has a rubbish graphic card so when watching films, you can see the pixels. If you need some thing for gaming etc, I recommend to read reviews specifically for such purposes.
purchased 11 Aug 2008
Steve, Clwyd
Score 9.0/10
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Fantastic large screen with good clear resolution, graphics card able to cope with high demand pc games. Good sound from inbuilt speakers. Done everything i have asked of it. Recomended
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Since this is my first laptop i cant say for sure if the battery is bad or not as have no comparison. Just feel it could do better than the hour to hour and a half i get from it after a full charge.
purchased 28 Jul 2008
Anonymous verified purchaser
Score 8.0/10
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Good Value
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For me, Vista
purchased 06 May 2008
Anonymous verified purchaser
Score 9.0/10
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it is quick and i can have multiple programs open without it freezing or crashing.
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battery life could be better
purchased 14 Sep 2008
Anonymous verified purchaser
, “1st year uni student”
Score 10.0/10
purchased 26 Sep 2008
pat, basildon
, “a semi retired technician”
Score 9.0/10
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easy to use,lots of added bits of programs,wireless off switch very useful the speakers have a very clear sound and the screen has a very sharp contrast/
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charger seems to get bery hot and there is one pixel that seems to light up when there is a blank black screen also when windows does its downloads there was no warning of the laptop shutting down very much the same as if the battery runs low.
purchased 01 Aug 2008
roseanne, london
, “am always happy”
Score 9.0/10
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i am really pleased with this product cause people told me that laptop aint so great for likes of the memory but this laptop i am most really pleased with the memory i got on my laptop it holds alot of things like photos and plays computer games using it for the surfing the web its pretty fast
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well i not really got much to say on the bad points except there is one bad point i make out is that the battery life goes down really fast so when i go somewhere and use it it goes down really fast i need to have it pluged in most of the time when i am using it
purchased 19 May 2008
gwen, edenbridge, kent
, “C#.Net developer”
Score 7.0/10
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its just really easy to use. Very fast :-) I have had no problems with it at all
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The battery life is a bit bad.. only an hour
purchased 01 Oct 2008
Heather, Pudsey
, “happy laptop purchaser”
Score 10.0/10
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comfortable to use light weight and easy to use
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over sensitive pointer pad
purchased 20 Aug 2008
Russell, bromley
, “Honest.to the point!”
Score 8.0/10
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Excellent condition and performance.
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None so far!
purchased 19 Sep 2008
bigun, bath
, “love the surf ”
Score 9.0/10
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good make& pedigree and has everything i require
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poor battery life
purchased 16 Jul 2008
Anonymous verified purchaser
, “Unhappy customer”
Score 1.0/10
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Looks good.
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Keeps freezing on me. Keeps just going blank when I'm in the middle of something. Not happy with it at all at the moment. May have to send it back.
purchased 03 May 2008
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Screen Size in Inches
 
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15.4
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Screen size is measured diagonally from corner to corner.
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Operating System
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Windows Vista Home Premium
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Software on which the device runs
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RAM in GB
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2
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Number of Cores
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Dual
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Computer processors are made up of 1 or more cores. Having multiple cores allows the computer to process more information at once making it faster.
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Hard Disk Capacity in GB
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160
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Hard Disk capacity is measured in GBs which stands for Gigabytes. A gigabyte is 1000 MB or megabytes. The more GB you have the more info like photos and music you can store.
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Screen Resolution (pixels)
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1280x800 (WXGA)
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The number of pixels the screen has. The more you have, the more detail the screen can display, given a high quality source.
A breakdown of resolutions can be found on Wikipedia here
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Processor Brand
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AMD
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There are 2 main manufacturers of computer processors. They are Intel and AMD.
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Processor
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Turion 64 X2
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This is the processor model range. Different types of processor have different types of functionality. For example Centrino processors are specifically designed to increase battery life in laptops.
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Processor Number
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TL60
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This is the specific processor number in the processor range.
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Processor Speed in MHz
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2000
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The processor is the driving force of your personal computer. The higher the number in Megahertz or Mhz the faster your computer will run. Don’t forget that other factors such as the number of cores will have an effect on speed.
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USB Port
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4
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Socket for connecting devices such as a computers and other components
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Integrated Webcam
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No
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A webcam is a small, in-built camera that allows you to record video to upload to popular sites like Youtube or have video chats with friends on Instant Messaging services.
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WiFi
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Yes
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Wifi allows you to connect your device to wireless routers or modems which allows you to connect to broadband internet.
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Bluetooth
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No
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Bluetooth is a technology for the wireless transfer of data such as contacts, photos and music between mobile phones, computers and a host of other Bluetooth enabled devices. Read more about Bluetooth on Wikipedia
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Fingerprint Access
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No
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Fingerprint access offers you an extra layer of security on your computer and is essential for any budding secret agent.
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Remote Control
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No
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DVD Writer
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Yes
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DVD Writers can be used to copy data, music, documents or films from your laptop, netbook or desktop computer, onto a blank DVD. DVD writers can also copy info onto blank CDs but CDs have a lower storage capacity. Normal DVD discs can store up to 4.7GB of info. DVD stands for Digital Versatile Disc.
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DVD Drive
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Yes
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CD Rom
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Yes
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Blu-ray Drive
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No
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HDMI Interface
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No
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Like a scart interface but capable of carrying HD signals from or to other devices. You’ll need these to link your Playstation 3 or your Blu-ray player to your HD-ready TV.
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VGA Port
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No
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VGA stands for Video Graphics Array. The VGA socket is used for connecting a monitor or TV to your computer. If you want to use an external monitor, TV or projector on your laptop make sure it has a VGA or DVI socket. VGA is also sometimes referred to as D-sub.
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DVI Port
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No
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DVI stands for Digital Visual Interface. Like VGA, DVI is used to connect laptops, desktops and other devices to HD TVs or monitors. You can buy a small adaptor to convert your digital DVI socket to an analogue VGA socket for use with older monitors if needed.
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Card Reader
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Yes
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A memory card reader allows you to connect various types of card such as SD Cards, MMC Cards or Compact Flash Cards to your laptop or desktop computer. Memory Card Readers are extremely useful for photographers as it allows you to quickly transfer your snaps from camera to machine meaning you can have them uploaded to your favourite website or printed out in a matter of minutes.
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Battery Life in Hours
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2.5
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Battery life is important if you travel a lot. Long train journeys can be a pain if you don’t get more than 3 hours of life out of your laptop. It’s worth remembering that a lot of trains offer power sockets now so don’t be put off by a low battery life unless your lifestyle demands ultra portability.
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Dimensions (mm)
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362x39.3x267.8
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The size of the device in millimetres, in width x height x depth.
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Weight (kg)
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2.7
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Brand of Graphic Chip
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ATI
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Graphics cards in desktop computers and graphics chips in laptops are manufactured by 3 main companies: Intel, ATI and nVidia. If you want to play modern games aim for an ATI or nVidia card or chip. Intel cards and chips work perfectly for general laptop use, video playback and older computer games.
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Graphic Card or Chip
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Radeon Xpress 1200
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This is the range and model number of the graphics card or chip in your desktop or laptop computer
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Colour
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Black
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The main colour of the product.
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Laptop Buyers' Guide
Manufacturer's Description
Designed for great everyday performance, Equium range products are affordable but serve up the power, features and portability that even the most demanding home users require.
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