One for the road: Seven road warrior notebooks tested

Notebook specifications

Model Acer TravelMate 630 AOpen 1545
Vendor Acer BlueChip InfoTech
RRP inc. GST $4999 $3799
Phone 1300 366 567 02 8745 8437
Web www.acer.com.au www.bluechipit.com.au
Warranty 1 Year 1 Year
Weight including battery (kg) 2.833 3.010
Processor Intel Pentium 4 2.0Ghz Intel Pentium 4 1.8Ghz
RAM installed (MB)/Max 256/1024 256/1024
Hard drive capacity (GB) and speed (RPM) IBM IC25N040AT/40/4200 IBM IC25N040AT/40/4200
Battery Capacity 14.8v 4000mAh 14.8v 4000mAh
Display size in inches 15 15
Native resolution 1400x1050 1400x1050
Graphics processor & memory nVidia Geforce2 Go/32MB nVidia Geforce2 Go/32MB
USB, Parallel, Serial, PS/2, DVI, VGA, Tv out 2, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1 2, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1
FireWire, SD Flash, Sony Memory Stick 1, 0, 0 1, 0, 0
Floppy Interchangeable with DVD Ext USB
Expanison port Yes Yes
PC Card Slot 1 x Type II 1 x Type II
Optical drive/read and write speed(s) Toshiba DVD-ROM SD-C2502/8xDVD Matsushita UJDA710/8xCD-R, 4xCD-RW, 8xDVD
Integrated Modem/Ethernet/802.11b wireless Yes/Yes/Optional Yes/Yes/Optional
Operating System Windows XP Pro Windows XP Pro
Model Apple iBook G3 600 Dell Latitude C640
Vendor Apple Dell
RRP inc. GST $3995 $4295
Phone 13 36 22 1300 303 126
Web www.apple.com.au www.dell.com.au
Warranty 1 Year 3 Years Next Business Day
Weight including battery (kg) 2.745 2.743
Processor Power PC G3 600Mhz Intel Pentium 4 2.0Ghz
RAM installed (MB)/Max 256/640 256/1024
Hard drive capacity (GB) and speed (RPM) IBM IC25N020AT/20/4200 Hitachi DK23DA-20/20/4200
Battery Capacity 14.4v NA (mAH) 14.8v 4460mAh
Display size in inches 14.1 14.1
Native resolution 1024x768 1400x1050
Graphics processor & memory ATI Rage M3/8MB ATI Mobility Radeon 7500/32MB
USB, Parallel, Serial, PS/2, DVI, VGA, Tv out 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1
FireWire, SD Flash, Sony Memory Stick 1, 0, 0 0, 0, 0
Floppy No Interchangeable with DVD
Expanison port No Yes
PC Card Slot No 2 x Type II
Optical drive/read and write speed(s) Sony CD-RW CRX800E/16xCD-R, 8xCD-RW HL DVD-ROM GDR-8081N/8xDVD
Integrated Modem/Ethernet/802.11b wireless Yes/Yes/Optional Yes/Yes/Optional
Operating System Mac OS X 10.1.2 Windows XP Pro
Model IBM ThinkPad T30 2366-41M Sony PCG-FXA10
Vendor IBM Sony
RRP inc. GST $4699 $2899
Phone 1800 289 426 1300 138 246
Web www.ibm.com.au www.sony.com.au
Warranty 3 Years 1 Year
Weight including battery (kg) 2.456 3.057
Processor Intel Pentium 4 1.8Ghz AMD Athlon XP 1400+
RAM installed (MB)/Max 256/1024 256/1024
Hard drive capacity (GB) and speed (RPM) IBM IC25N040AT/40/4200 Hitachi DK23DA-30/30/4200
Battery Capacity 10.8v 4400mAH 14.8v 3000mAh
Display size in inches 14.1 14.1
Native resolution 1024x768 1024x768
Graphics processor & memory ATI Mobility Radeon 7500/16MB ATI Rage Mobility-M1/8MB
USB, Parallel, Serial, PS/2, DVI, VGA, Tv out 2, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1 2, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1
FireWire, SD Flash, Sony Memory Stick 0, 0, 0 1, 0, 0
Floppy No (opt ext USB) Integrated
Expanison port Yes Yes
PC Card Slot 2 x Type II 2 x Type II
Optical drive/read and write speed(s) HL DVD-ROM GDR-8081N/8xDVD Toshiba DVD-ROM CD-R2212/16xCD-R, 10xCD-RW, 8xDVD
Integrated Modem/Ethernet/802.11b wireless Yes/Yes/Optional Yes/Yes/Optional
Operating System Windows XP Pro Windows XP Home
Model Toshiba Portege 4010
Vendor Toshiba
RRP inc. GST $4730
Phone 13 30 70
Web www.toshiba.com.au
Warranty 3 Years
Weight including battery (kg) 1.941
Processor Intel Pentium 3 933Mhz
RAM installed (MB)/Max 256/1024
Hard drive capacity (GB) and speed (RPM) IBM IC25N030AT/30/4200
Battery Capacity 10.8v 3600mAH
Display size in inches 12
Native resolution 1024x768
Graphics processor & memory Trident CyberBlade XP/16MB
USB, Parallel, Serial, PS/2, DVI, VGA, Tv out 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0
FireWire, SD Flash, Sony Memory Stick 1, 1, 0
Floppy No (opt ext USB)
Expanison port Yes
PC Card Slot 2 x Type II
Optical drive/read and write speed(s) HL DVD-ROM GDR-8081N/8xDVD
Integrated Modem/Ethernet/802.11b wireless Yes/Yes/Yes
Operating System Windows XP Pro

 

 

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