may 26 2010 review by tbreak
This notebook has a Core i5-520 CPU running @2.4GHz, 4GB DDR3-1066 RAM, 802.11n Wireless Networking, an NVIDIA GT330 discrete video card with 1GB GDR RAM as well as Intel HD graphics and a 128GB Solid State Disk running in RAID 0 mode. Next to that it has a 13 inch LED screen (1600x900) and a carbon-fibre body. This laptop is incredibly light and weighs under 1.4kg.
Connectors:
Left side connectors: power connector, Gigabit lan, HDMI out and two USB ports seperated by an Express Slot in the middle.
Right side connectors: USB port, DVD Writer and the power switch.
Front: SD and Sony's Memory Stick, audio input/output jacks and a Wi-Fi on/off
New features:
MBP, the keyboard now has a backlight for people that work under darker conditions. Above the keyboard there is a three-way switch
that lets you select between the NVIDIA GPU and the Intel GPU or automatically let the system decide using Auto position.
Compared to:
Alienware MX11
Benchmarks:
CPU Mark, Disk Mark, 3D Mark 2006, PC Mark Vantage, WinRAR CPU test. The results in Diskmark showed the strengh of The 128GB RAID0
SSD which couldn't be matched by the Alienware laptop.
Battery Life:
A little over four hours on this notebook. When used as a gaming machine it won't give you more than a couple of hours.
Price:
May 2010 the price was app. US$2300.-