Advantages: Nice and fast, wifi built in, beautiful screen
Disadvantages: Forced to allocate memory for backing up

...button that, when pressed, indicates via LED lights the percentage of battery power left in 20 percent increments. Battery power works for 4 hours under normal usage (which for me is using wifi internet access). The graphics card is an ATI Radeon Xpress 200M. For internet access and normal usage, i.e. creating a word document, the laptop is fast and fit for purpose. I'm currently writing this on the latop whilst watching a DIVx video. The latop is fine with this and no lag is occuring. The 15.4" screen is the glassy variety which means that the display is sharp and pretty, however, can also be quite reflective when a dark image is on screen. In general, this hasn't caused me any problems. The keyboard is nicely designed and the standard sort that you may expect, clicking nicely when used. The sensepad (positioned below the spacebar) is easy... Read review

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Advantages: price,price,price
Disadvantages: LCD, lack of scroll, weak GPU performance

...I bought this laptop one month ago as I needed one for university. I have chosen this one as it was the cheapest decent laptop. I bought for something around 280pounds from an on-line shop in Romania. In the package there was the laptop, AC adapter, network cable, a CD with drivers and one with Linux Knoppix. The first impression was that I bought it at a fair price. The plastic looks cheap but the keyboard is fine. First day I used it only connected to the AC adapter but second day I took it with me at work. When running on battery the LCD is awful because it looks so much darker and you can barely recognize it. That's the first negative point. The second one is that you don't have a scroll and as I am surfing a lot on the internet it is really crap. If you think of playing games I would not recommend it as it has the weakest graphic... Read review

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Advantages: Long Battery Life
Disadvantages: None

...Well, I'm not to Technical when it come to the knowledge of a Laptop, so i'm just gonna tell you how i have found this PC without getting too Techy I recently had to buy a new Laptop after my Fujitsu Siemans Laptop died a bad death, i was a bit gutted as i had been very happy with it, anyway i came across this Medion after some advice from a very techy computer friend who advised me that for £479 it was a great little buy, and had everything on it i required Basically it has Windows Vista Premium Intel Pentium dual-core processor T2130 120 GB hard disk Wireless internet capabillity Can burn DVD and CD Has a 4 in 1 memory card reader It also came with a USB mouse, which i will probably never use and a protective carry bag, a handy place to store the bits and pieces that come with the laptop The screen is a little smaller than... Read review

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