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4.5 stars
"Been my portable workhorse for 2.5 years!"
Pros: Tiny, touch screen, extreme battery life, WiFi
Cons: 256 MB fixed RAM, keyboard a tad cramped, USB 1.1
Summary: I have used this tiny little machine for the last two and a half years. It has served time in the car paired with a USB GPS reciever as my map on wheels, been my computer at work, controlled a smartboard and numerous presentations, been used to get weather models while storm chasing, capture images from my telescope, record student grades and show MPG and Flash videos to my students. With the extended battery, I can get about seven hours of battery life. Close the lid and the system goes into standby and eats nearly no battery doing so for days on end. The WiFi is handy, the touch screen very handy and the keyboard perfectly suitable for touching up documents or creating Powerpoint presentations. With an 800 MHz TM Crusoe processor, it can be sluggish for anything but basic apps, but that is what I use this for, so no big deal. It comes with a utility for backing the system up to a secure partition on the 30 GB hard drive, a feature I used once to restore the computer back to factory specs. I have not seen another ultraportable that I want more, unless you include the vaporware Flipstart. It is eminently usable, portable, long-lasting and useful, and I adore it. The fact that this model, unchanged, is still available, and the price has not gone down a smidge is a testament to the worth of this tiny little computer. The only thing that could improve it is a Centrino processor, 512 MB RAM and a 40 GB hard drive...and a 32-MB video card so I can play Luxor on it. I know there is a new tablet out with the P1120's form factor, but I don't want a tablet. Long live my P1120!!!
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You will not find another, more reliable, and feature packed notebook this size. At 2 lbs it packs the specs of many larger notebooks and has a great 3yr warranty std, though you will probably never need it. The only thing that could improve this notebook is a faster processor, usb2.0, and a cdrom, but that would just add to the size and weight.
