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    2.5 stars

    "Marginal machine at best"

    by jimn on April 10, 2007

    Pros: copied Apples adjacent finger scroll on the trackpad

    Cons: 10 Character minimum is not an issue. The cons are numerous,

    Summary: What can I say. I had a nice HP nc6000 at work which was a standard screen size, solid and just worked (except for the cheap RAM issues which was a corporate issue, not HP's). Now I get this piece of junk. For work, the nc6000 was fast enough and had great screen resolution. This wide screen ATI peice of junk is a waste. My computer is larger (ie wider) but the font size at the default 1440 is so small, I get a headache 1 hour into the day. So here I sit at a fuzzy 1024x768 wasting the added width. My SUN, Apple and HP workstations can deal with wide screen, my Apple Mac Book has a gorgeous wide screen and my older HP while smaller, had a gorgeous screen. Even my 12inch iBook has a better video than this. Whats with this thing? I like the keyboard, its big. The Delete key is pretty close to being in the correct place. The adjacent finger scrolling on the trackpad is an OK copy of Apples (which has been out for 3 years plus in Apple land), but it is just OK on this machine. No where near the fineness of the Apple trackpad. Other than the wasted screen realestate due to either a louzy LCD, or bad drivers, the PC is OK. Sort of a mediocre machine. If I had purchased it, I would have returned it. But it is my corporate machine on a 3 years lease. It will be a joyous day in three years when I get to turn it back in and get a replacement. I will learn to live with mediocrity until then. I trust I will turn out more than mediocre work between now and then.

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