My 4780 showed up today - 3.2G, 1G ram , DVD/CDRW , TV Tuner, subwoofer
Everything works - but one bright blue dead pixel in the upper right hand corner - no an issue normally but on wide screen DVD's its on the black part of the screen - and is annoying. The sound is better than I expected, but you have to play with the equalizer to get it really decent. Its no match for external speakers though. The built in camera is a joke - counted 15 dead pixels ranging in colors from red to blue. The TV tuner adapter from S video to cable is missing - have to wait on getting the TV tuner to work. When the fans cycle on - it is obvious , unless you have the volume cranked up on a DVD or game.
Now for the worst part - the thing gets extremely hot, watched the entire gladiator movie - at the end you could not touch the top of the thing - to hot, keys as well. I had it propped up about 2 inches in back to get good air circulation , it was still toasty. For my use its OK, I use an external keybaord and mouse , and it never leaves my desk. cant envision using this as a portable you have to take somewhere or actually use on your lap , it may burn your clothes. Maybe its really hot due to the 3.2G CPU - cant believe a prescott chip would live long in a laptop since they get about 30% hotter than these.
All in all its OK , I like it, but not sure how long it will last due to the heat. Bought a laptop cooler with fans , another piece of junk - they trade quiet for CFM's - not worth it. I purchased a small muffin fan that runs from 110, not to noisy and at least it blows air , and I blow it in fromt he side under the laptop, it helped more than the dumb laptop cooler which had two fans that were just about useless.
One surprising thing was that the screen width is the same as my 19inch LCD, did not thingk it would be that wide. It does look good.
so in summary the think is nice - not going overboard though and give it a bunch of dancing banana's , its not the vallhala of notebooks.
Everything works - but one bright blue dead pixel in the upper right hand corner - no an issue normally but on wide screen DVD's its on the black part of the screen - and is annoying. The sound is better than I expected, but you have to play with the equalizer to get it really decent. Its no match for external speakers though. The built in camera is a joke - counted 15 dead pixels ranging in colors from red to blue. The TV tuner adapter from S video to cable is missing - have to wait on getting the TV tuner to work. When the fans cycle on - it is obvious , unless you have the volume cranked up on a DVD or game.
Now for the worst part - the thing gets extremely hot, watched the entire gladiator movie - at the end you could not touch the top of the thing - to hot, keys as well. I had it propped up about 2 inches in back to get good air circulation , it was still toasty. For my use its OK, I use an external keybaord and mouse , and it never leaves my desk. cant envision using this as a portable you have to take somewhere or actually use on your lap , it may burn your clothes. Maybe its really hot due to the 3.2G CPU - cant believe a prescott chip would live long in a laptop since they get about 30% hotter than these.
All in all its OK , I like it, but not sure how long it will last due to the heat. Bought a laptop cooler with fans , another piece of junk - they trade quiet for CFM's - not worth it. I purchased a small muffin fan that runs from 110, not to noisy and at least it blows air , and I blow it in fromt he side under the laptop, it helped more than the dumb laptop cooler which had two fans that were just about useless.
One surprising thing was that the screen width is the same as my 19inch LCD, did not thingk it would be that wide. It does look good.
so in summary the think is nice - not going overboard though and give it a bunch of dancing banana's , its not the vallhala of notebooks.
