Rating: Summary: Great graphics chip Review: This notebook has pretty much everything you could want in a notebook! It's a very nice package with a great balance of features, size, and battery life. The price is right too. It suspends and resumes in under 5 seconds each, is very stable (no crashes yet!), and solidly built. Having everything you need such as Firewire and 10/100 Ethernet built in saves you the cost of adding these feature and carrying around additional components. The DVD/CD-RW combo is nice as well.The only thing I would have liked to have seen is scroll buttons to accompany the touchpad like some other notebooks have. Regarding the users complaining about the drive clicking, it is completely normal! ALL drives make some noise when they access the disk, some are louder than others. The drive in this notebook is probably not the quietest drive around, but it's not the loudest I've heard either. They may be complaining simply out of lack of experience with many hard drives, or not used to a notebook where you're closer to it than a desktop and the louder fans may drown out the drive sounds.
Rating: Summary: Great price, great features! Review: This notebook has pretty much everything you could want in a notebook! It's a very nice package with a great balance of features, size, and battery life. The price is right too. It suspends and resumes in under 5 seconds each, is very stable (no crashes yet!), and solidly built. Having everything you need such as Firewire and 10/100 Ethernet built in saves you the cost of adding these feature and carrying around additional components. The DVD/CD-RW combo is nice as well. The only thing I would have liked to have seen is scroll buttons to accompany the touchpad like some other notebooks have. Regarding the users complaining about the drive clicking, it is completely normal! ALL drives make some noise when they access the disk, some are louder than others. The drive in this notebook is probably not the quietest drive around, but it's not the loudest I've heard either. They may be complaining simply out of lack of experience with many hard drives, or not used to a notebook where you're closer to it than a desktop and the louder fans may drown out the drive sounds.
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