Madgenius
09-05-2003, 12:03 AM
Today I traded in my compaq X1000 and bought a 220A5. Now I should come out and tell you that I'm the type of person who trades in his notebook about every 6-12 mo. I've had 6 NB's before the vpr is my seventh. Lately I have been going with compaq's for the unbeatable value vs. features. But, since the HP merger I have seen compaq go the way of a unwanted step child. Anyway, I'm getting off subject. THIS VPR IS WHAT I'VE ALWAYS WANTED, and never knew it. Sleek good looks, high quality, slot loading drive, no dummy software to uninstall.
Now I did do my research before buying, here's how it went. I've read alot about the issues w/ these NB's on board's such as this. So I had them open it in the store before I bought it. everything looked fine. No dead pixel's. No strange sound from the monitor either. I've developed a small quality test for NB's, press the back of the monitor screen, does it distort the picture? Nope vpr passed that (few do). Pick it up, does it feel solid, like it can survive alot of handling? Yep. So on to step two, while I'm uploading my files to the new PC, I check the CD drive... no problems very low noise the same as the X1000. I read about alot of complaints about heat from the system, mine only get's a little hot on the left side (right sides a cucumber) but it's not at all bad or unacceptable, since I know there's a 2.2gig chip working inside ( I've read some posts comparing this to the emachine's NB which is a AMD, if you think intel runs hot wait until you put that on your lap. I had a AMD 1800 presario that got absoluetly UNTOUCHABLE when it got going, Intel's run much cooler. Especially the new centrino's which the X1000 had , and it ran very cool by the way). Then the keyboard, while not the best far from sloppy. It does have some bad area's but in general it's a 4 out of 5. So far everything works and works well, it is a fast PC. Which is why I picked it, I can't find another NB on the market (aside from 2k+ priced Apple) w/ (2) 1394's this is great for my video editing. My only gripe so far, and this is a small one, is the tiny slivers of click buttons. It seems alot of proper thought went into this NB, finally I here's one I can use for years to come.
Now I did do my research before buying, here's how it went. I've read alot about the issues w/ these NB's on board's such as this. So I had them open it in the store before I bought it. everything looked fine. No dead pixel's. No strange sound from the monitor either. I've developed a small quality test for NB's, press the back of the monitor screen, does it distort the picture? Nope vpr passed that (few do). Pick it up, does it feel solid, like it can survive alot of handling? Yep. So on to step two, while I'm uploading my files to the new PC, I check the CD drive... no problems very low noise the same as the X1000. I read about alot of complaints about heat from the system, mine only get's a little hot on the left side (right sides a cucumber) but it's not at all bad or unacceptable, since I know there's a 2.2gig chip working inside ( I've read some posts comparing this to the emachine's NB which is a AMD, if you think intel runs hot wait until you put that on your lap. I had a AMD 1800 presario that got absoluetly UNTOUCHABLE when it got going, Intel's run much cooler. Especially the new centrino's which the X1000 had , and it ran very cool by the way). Then the keyboard, while not the best far from sloppy. It does have some bad area's but in general it's a 4 out of 5. So far everything works and works well, it is a fast PC. Which is why I picked it, I can't find another NB on the market (aside from 2k+ priced Apple) w/ (2) 1394's this is great for my video editing. My only gripe so far, and this is a small one, is the tiny slivers of click buttons. It seems alot of proper thought went into this NB, finally I here's one I can use for years to come.