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- killermrk
- KillerMRK2
(shown in business trim)
What is it?: A smallish (14.1" screen) laptop
What it costs: $799 USD
How long have you owned it? : Exactly 4 months
Pros:
- Relatively Cheap
- bright, crisp screen
- DVD burner w/ lightscribe
- 5-in-1 media card reader
- integrated wireless b/g and bluetooth
- "Euro" features like an AltGr button, and a dedicated € key
- 2 GB of RAM
- Large enough HDD (160 gigs)
- integrated webcame and microphone
Cons:
-Takes more than a minute to boot up
- Stupidly low battery life (2.5 hours on powersaver mode) makes it impractical for school
- incredibly sluggish on batter power
- Vistas "Aero" interface can bog down the fairly lightweight processor (1.46 ghz Pentium dual core)
- A bit too heavy (and expensive) to bring to school.
- Integrated graphics make it painful to run certain games
Overall: 7.5 of 10
On the whole, its a very good laptop, but I can't go terribly far away from an outlet, and I'll be purchasing an Eee in the coming months. (with the intel atom processor it should have over 10 hours of battery life!
)Would you recommend this product to a friend? : Yes, if it was still available new from the manufacturer.
4 months is a long time for a laptop to be unchanged apparently.
