This laptop is great for all aspects of college. comes with good programs already installed and a really nice display for dvd and gaming.

Specifications

Microprocessor
Mobile Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor-M with Enhanced Intel SpeedStep™ technology

Memory
On-board memory upgradeable to 1,024 MB with 2 DDR-266 SoDIMM
512K on-die L2 cache
Data storage One high-capacity, Enhanced-IDE hard drive
Slot-loading DVD/CD-RW drive
Secure Digital (SD) slot
 
Display and video
15.2-inch 15:10 SXGA widescreen TFT LCD panel
1,280 × 854 (SXGA) resolution, 16.7 million colors
NVIDIAR GeForce4 Go. high-performance graphics chipset with 32-MB frame buffer
Simultaneous LCD and CRT display
Dual display support
LCD panel supports resolution up to 1,280 × 854
VGA monitor supports resolution up to 2,048 × 1,536
Embedded TV encoder supports resolution up to 1,024 × 768
 
Audio
Built-in speaker and microphone
Sound Blaster Pro-compatible and Windows Sound System-compatible
Built-in subwoofer
Separate audio ports for line-in/microphone and line-out/headphones
 
Keyboard and pointing device 84-key/85-key/88-key Windows keyboard
Ergonomically-centered touchpad pointing device
I/O ports One Type II CardBus PC Card slot
One RJ-11 phone jack (V.90)
One RJ-45 network jack (Ethernet 10/100)
One power connector
One external monitor port (DDC 2.0)
One line-out jack (headphone or external speaker) (3.5 mm mini-jack)
One audio line-in/ microphone jack (3.5 mm mini-jack)
Three USB ports (2.0)
Two IEEE 1394 ports. One 4-pin (unpowered) and one 6-pin (powered)
Wireless LAN
 
Weight and dimensions
6.7 lbs (3 kg)
13.43 × 9.53 × 1.29 inches (341 × 242 × 31.2 mm)
 
Environment
Temperature Operating: 5 to 35° C
Non-operating: -10 to 65° C
Humidity (non-condensing) Operating: 20 to 80% RH
Non-operating: 20 to 80% RH
 
Operating System Microsoft
Windows® XP Home edition

Power
Battery 59.2-W hour Li-Ion battery
1.5-hour rapid charge/4-hour charge-in-use
AC adapter 70 W
Auto sensing 100 to 240 Vac, 50 to 60 Hz

Review 

Pros: Great Unit, Comes with Ati Radeon 9600 64mb Video Card which is good for gaming[ I can play Battlefield 2 on lowest settings, Unreal Tournament 2004]. The built-in subwoofer is nice and makes watching movies and game playing fun. Its also light and easy to carry around. Additionally, I discovered by accident that the optical drive was Matsushita UJ-815A which is a DVD-RAM drive which means that it can wirte data onto dvd-ram [4.7GB] media. I had purchased the unit desribed as DVD player and CD burner. Some of you folks that have the DVD+-RW are better off because of larger selection of media to use. But this was a big plus for me because now i can back up a lot more data than a CD without having to buy an external dvd burner. m505 768mb RAM 1.5ghz Pentium M Radeon 9600 [64mb] Matsushita UJ-815-A DVD-RAM

Cons: No major problems. The fan turning on and off gets occassionally annoying although its not loud. If your a big time gamer you would want to get a unit with a better video card[try the ati x700 with 128mb or a fancy geforce card].

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