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PU	AMD Geode LX 800 64KB Instruction Cache +64KB Data Cache Standard Setting 64KB Instruction Cache + 64KB Data Cache (128KB Instruction Cache or, 128KB Data Cache)
	Operating System

Microsoft ® Windows XP Home Edition (Service Pack 2)

Chipset

AMD Geode CS5536 Companion Device

BIOS

ACPI 2.0 support (Full feature ACPI power management: Stand-by, Suspend to Disk, Suspend to RAM)

System Memory

PC2700 (DDR333 SO-DIMM) Standard — 512MB Maximum — 1 GB Slot — 1 Slot (Already in use by Standard Memory)

HDD

40 GB, 2.5″ HDD (P-ATA)

ODD

None

Display

None-Glare 7″” WVGA TFT Color LCD (LED backlight) with Touch Screen Resolution (Standard Display) 1,024 x 600 Dot Resolution (Maximum) 1,600×1,200 Dot

Graphic

Geode LX 800 embedded V-RAM 8MB-256MB support (Shared with System memory)

Sound

CS5536 embedded Speaker — Stereo (Internal)

Keyboard

US English KeyBoard

Pointing Device 1

Touchpad

Pointing Device 2

Pointer-Same function as the Touchpad (Mainly, this is used when LCD is rotated.)

Pointing Device 3

Touch Screen (Passive)

Power Supply

Miniature AC Adapter (input 100-240V, 50-60Hz) Smart AC cable Standard Battery - Li-lon Battery Pack-2600mAh. 11.1V

Wireless Network

LAN IEEE 802.11 b/g Bluetooth Ver. 2.0 + EDR/Class-2 (10m)

Wired Network

LAN 10BASE-T/100BASE-TX Wake-On-LAN support Modem None

Click Button (L&R)

Same function as the mouse click button (Mainly, this is used when LCD is rotated.

Button

Power-Power On/Off Scroll-Scroll Up/Down (Mainly, this is used when LCD is rotated.) Volume-Volume Up/Down (Mainly, this is used when LCD is roated.) Brightness-Brightness Up/Down (Mainly, this is used when LCD is rotated.)

Media Slot

3 in 1 Media Slot: SD Memory Card (SDHC/SDIO) / Memory Stick / MMC Card CF Type I & II, I/O card support

USB 2.0

2 ports

Mic

Internal External (3.5mm Mini Jack)

Headphone

3.5 mm Mini Jack

VGA

D-sub 15pin

Size

Small & Thin & Light Dimensions: Approx 218mm(W) * Approx 163mm(D) * Approx 25.4mm(H) (measurements without protrusions)

Weight

Approx 990g (with Standard Battery)

Battery

Lithium-lon Battery (11.1V, 2600mAh) Standard Battery- Approx 4 Hours

]]> http://www.cheyla.com/kohjinsha-sa5sx04bs-laptop-good-value/feed/ http://www.cheyla.com/finding-laptop-speakers-for-your-needs/ http://www.cheyla.com/finding-laptop-speakers-for-your-needs/#comments Thu, 29 May 2008 11:16:15 +0000 admin http://www.cheyla.com/finding-laptop-speakers-for-your-needs/ I use laptop for my daily tasks.   I am a person who is mobile for my job.  Moving from one place to another requires me to deal with laptop everyday.  Even my laptop is equipped with internal microphone and speakers, I must admit that I am not satisfied with the sound quality that my internal speakers produce.  That is why I am thinking of purchasing laptop speakers.  Dealing with many conference calls or meetings through laptop requires me to have laptop speakers for cleaner sound.  Thus, I can move around without missing the details of conversation during conference call.

After doing some research through internet, I narrow down my choices to Creative Technology I-Trigue 2300 2.0 Premium and Logitech R-10.  These laptop speakers are affordable with good sound quality.  The design is elegant and small so that I can easily move them around.  Technology I-Trigue 2300 2.0 Premium is a little bit higher in term of price because it is just released in the market while Logitech R-10 has been in the market for 2 years.

I do not look for laptop speakers with subwoofer because they are bulky.  Although sometime I watch movies through my laptop, I prefer smaller speakers to make it easy to move around.

It is innevitable that research requires more time.  Not to mention that many vendors available in market with less review about them.  Trusting solely on the vendor’s website will not be objective as vendors are trying to show the positive sides of their products.  Customers are the one exploiting the bad sides as well.  Just like I was mentioned that new vendors seldom have reviews because not all customers publish their experience online.

That is why such company like Discountechnology exists.  Their expertise and experiences on hard drives could save you research time.  They have been in IT consulting for many years to help you choose the best SCSI drives or other drives type you need.  Try to make a query on them and see it yourself whether they know what to propose for your needs.

Aside from providing discount hard drives, Discountechnology also offers mini PCI wireless cards, Dell PowerEdge servers, Dell Latitude laptops /notebooks.  Located in San Diego, the company maintain the same day shipping for US customers.  However, the company is not only limited for US customer, they are providing as well international shipping.

• Processor - Intel Core 2 Duo T7300 2 GHz Dual-Core
• RAM - 1 GB (installed) 3 GB (max) - DDR II SDRAM
• Hard Drive - 160 GB
• Operating System - Microsoft Windows XP Professional
• Screen - 15.4 in TFT active matrix 1680 x 1050 24-bit (16.7 million colours)
• Optical Drive - DVD-Writer
• Graphics - NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M - 128 MB
• Bluetooth - Yes

The only things that annoys me are:

1.  The keyboard is very noise.  I mean everything i tried to type fast, the sounds are annoying me very much.

2. The USB port is designed vertical.  Thus, some of my flash drives that have wider body would bring me a hassle if I want to connect it to this Lenovo T61.  Either I need to lift the laptop or move the laptop to the edge of the table so that it have some space to insert the flash drive into the vertical USB port of this Lenovo T61

During a normal condition, the friction is supposed to be minimum.  Through time, the disc rotation becomes unbalance.  This is usually happen for hard disc on the laptop . Due to movement, the disc could be misplace from its center of rotation a little bit.  Unbalance rotation could cause more friction between the disc and the body.  This can be detected with unusual rattle noise.

If this problem is not fixed, the noise could be more and more noticeable because after a time, the unbalance disc will be worse.  The heavy friction could cause the body becomes very hot or even small burn.  In the image on the right, you can see that the body of hard disc becomes black because of heavy friction happen for some time.

Therefore, if you experience the same problem, better back up your data before the hard disc is completely broken.

What makes Intel Centrino 2 different from its predecessor? It is claimed to be more energy saving, thus, the battery life of a laptop using Intel Centrino 2 based will be longer.  Aside from that, it size will 60% smaller. It will be a good news for laptop manufactures as they can play around with the layout and sizes for the laptop they produce.

Well,  let us just wait and see the review for this Intel Centrino 2.