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'The plastics feel durable enough to resist cracking under mild abuse, and the matte-black plastic finish shouldn't make scratches stand out as much as they would on a glossy notebook.'
'solid laptop'
'the 1,366x768 native resolution screen looked good, although we've also seen screens this size with higher resolutions.'
'The Acer Aspire 8930's media controls are intuitive and reasonably responsive, and the volume slider is, well, fun.'
'The hard drive is easily replaceable, and the motherboard supports a pair of DDR3 SO-DIMMs (and with a 64-bit version of Vista and the shrinking cost of 4GB SO-DIMMS, expansion is a viable option down the road).'
'The bezel is a little thick, but in my tests the lower edge was elevated enough to give me a good, full view of the screen even with my meaty paws typing away at the keyboard.'
'Dell goes full-throttle with its latest XPS notebook, the M1730, which packs an Intel Core 2 Extreme X7900 processor, dual Nvidia graphics processors in an SLI configuration, and Ageia's PhysX controller, which theoretically makes games look more realistic than before.'
'new 17-inch high-performance gaming notebook'
'It's the first laptop ever to use a dedicated Ageia PhysX processing unit alongside two separate high-end graphics cards.'
'The notebook's speakers sound good at low volumes, but when we tried to pump out Gnarls Barkley's at top volumes, it sounded a bit like a cover by the Chipmunks.'
'when we tried to pump out Gnarls Barkley's Crazy at top volumes, it sounded a bit like a cover by the Chipmunks.'