Zenith Z-Station Vega - PII 233 MHz

Advantages: Compact all-in-one design, robust and portable, high build quality, attractive styling
Disadvantages: Relative high cost, slow USB connectivity.

...Well my little Bondi Blue babe is almost 18 months old, and here's the review. 233MHz, how does that compare with the current crop of consumer PC's / iMacs? OK 233MHz doesn't sound like much processing power when you see ads for 700MHz PC's, but you've got to remember that the PC MHz rating is not directly related to that of IBM / / Motorola / Apple's PPC chip architecture. It actually equates to around 450 MHz, so it's not to bad. My machine has a 160 MB of RAM and is perfectly happy tossing 200 MB photoshop files around in it's memory. What about the Hardrive, isn't 4GB too small? Yes, but after 18 month's of hard work, evev a 10GB drive would have had to have a couple of spring cleans on it. I chose the easy option and bought an external USB CD-RW (x2) and an external 20GB USB Harddrive. So storage worries are now a thing... Read review

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Advantages: Very small, and light
Disadvantages: Not really

...A PII-300 smaller than an A4 sheet of paper, just over 2cm thick, and weighing as much as a bag of sugar! If it was ugly as sin you'd forgive it - but it looks darn fine too! The 300 Mhz processor is plenty powerful enough to crunch everday tasks - and it's just as capable running Word, Dreamweaver or web surfing. The 6GB hard disk, and 64Mb memory complement appropriately. The 10.4" TFT screen is plenty big enough for most work at 800x600, and clear and bright. The keyboard doesn't hinder my reasonable typing speed either. The 'nipple' mouse pointer is plenty responsive, and despite not having used such a pointer before I was soon comfortable. Battery life is well above average, giving 2 to 3 hours depending on levels of disk access / modem use. Toshiba's proprietory power saving software squeezes battery life to your own... Read review

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Advantages: Is more than adequate across the board; very easy to use
Disadvantages: As a result, it is unexceptional in most of its attributes

...The Toshiba Equium A110-233 is a very competent all-purpose computer, coming at a very reasonable price (I purchased mine online at Dixons for round about £460). The actual model itself looks stylish enough, though it lacks any particularly imaginative design flair. Suffice to say, however, that it isn't an ugly, clunky beast like some laptops to be found on the market. The screen is perfectly serviceable, with adequate resolution to handle the viewing of multimedia, and doesn't fall into the recent trend of laptops of being irritatingly minute. The processing capability of the hardware is certainly fit for purpose too - unless you plan on using memory-intensive games or image-editing software, it should satisfy your needs; certainly if you intend mostly to utilise Microsoft Office, the internet, and other software... Read review

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