ADIC Scalar I500 400 GB 800 GB

Advantages: Large Capacity, blazing fast.
Disadvantages: Poor quality, breaks at the blink of an eye, fragile, sloppy manufacture

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Advantages: fast and affordable laptop, Its just fantastic
Disadvantages: a few bugs with vista

...or music onto CD. PROCESSOR Intel core 2 duo T5500 / 1.66 GHz Data bus speed: 667 MHz Mobile intel 945PM express CACHE MEMORY L2 Cache 2MB RAM 1 GB / 4 GB (max) DDR II SDRAM 1 x 1 GB STORAGE Hard drive 120 GB CARD READER 5 in 1 card reader SD memory card, memory stick, memory stick PRO, multimedia card, xD-picture card DISPLAY 15.4" TFT active matrix 1280 x 800 ( WXGA ) 24-bit (16.7 million colours) Crystalbrite VIDEO NVIDIA geforce go 7300 turbocache supporting 400MB Video memory 128 MB Max allocted RAM size 272 MB POWER External AC 120/230 V (50/60 Hz) BATTERY 6-cell lithium ion Run time (up to) 2 hours OPERATING SYSTEM / SOFTWARE Microsoft windows vista home premium Norton antivirus, acer launch manager, NTI CD-maker, Adobe reader I highly recommend anyone to buy this laptop if they are in need for a new one, it is future... Read review

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Advantages: Additional capacity - worked out of the box
Disadvantages: None

...I totally agree with first reviewer. Worked out of the box. I partitioned the 400 GB into two drives using Partition Magic 8 (which had previously baulked at a 160 GB internal HDD) and am using one for storage of digital images (duplicates to CD/DVD backups). Mine, even after three hours use, did not get hot - rather a nice warm value. It works very quietly and I can fully recommend this make and model as exceptionally good and extremely good value for money. When I think back to the 40 MB disc I used for years (Drivespaced, too) I cannot but think what fantastic value for money this is. As a supplement to my internal 2 X 120 GB HDDs, it will provide an additional capacity for my growing storage of high quality digital images (I am now a retired PRO Photographer and teacher of, says he blushingly, high international reputation)... Read review

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