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== Best retro purpose == | == Best retro purpose == | ||
Early Windows 95 and Windows 98 era gaming for titles released before 1998 or as an office computer. The laptop offers a good balance between CPU and graphics performance, although the video chipset is not as fast as Neomagic ones. Compatibility with DOS is great but performance on SVGA resolutions such as 640x480 is far from being the best. The laptop fares very well on the compatibility side as it has two slots and allows large amounts of memory such as 48MB to be achieved easily. | Early Windows 95 and Windows 98 era gaming for titles released before 1998 or as an office computer. The laptop offers a good balance between CPU and graphics performance, although the video chipset is not as fast as Neomagic ones. Compatibility with DOS is great but performance on SVGA resolutions such as 640x480 is far from being the best. The video controller can use the S3 864 drivers. The laptop fares very well on the compatibility side as it has two slots and allows large amounts of memory such as 48MB to be achieved easily. | ||
== Benchmarks == | == Benchmarks == | ||
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An above average, considered high-end by the manufacturer, slim, business laptop, released in 1997. It had a good mix of parts in a compact package, with an attractive design. Although the laptop was quickly made obsolete by faster CPUs and more capable videocards, it was a stable, reliable computer. | An above average, considered high-end by the manufacturer, slim, business laptop, released in 1997. It had a good mix of parts in a compact package, with an attractive design. Although the laptop was quickly made obsolete by faster CPUs and more capable videocards, it was a stable, reliable computer. | ||
The graphics chipset is an odd choice. On the one side, the S3 lineage was famed for its performance, reliability and compatibility back in the day. Although the S3 Aurora 64V+ is far from being the fastest chipset in the S3 Trio lineup, somewhat below the S3 Trio 64V+ performance, | The graphics chipset is an odd choice. On the one side, the S3 lineage was famed for its performance, reliability and compatibility back in the day. Although the S3 Aurora 64V+ is far from being the fastest chipset in the S3 Trio lineup, somewhat below the S3 Trio 64V+ performance, although decent. It could be reasoned that the chipset does not use dedicated video RAM, reducing performance and showing some cost compromises typical of low-end laptops. Compatibility is good with the S3 864 chipset which means that you can use the much more common Trio64 drivers. | ||
The LCD TFT screen is very good in terms of color rendering, showing them vividly, although it is not special in terms of contrast or brightness. Even on the 12 inch screen model, the display choice is perfect for retro gaming as the screen size is adequate on 640x480 resolution as well as the full 800x600 resolution. Another good feature of the laptop is that the screen has many levels of brightness that you can choose from, although the ramp is not great, with small differences between minimum and maximum. This was typical of many laptops of that era. | The LCD TFT screen is very good in terms of color rendering, showing them vividly, although it is not special in terms of contrast or brightness. Even on the 12 inch screen model, the display choice is perfect for retro gaming as the screen size is adequate on 640x480 resolution as well as the full 800x600 resolution. Another good feature of the laptop is that the screen has many levels of brightness that you can choose from, although the ramp is not great, with small differences between minimum and maximum. This was typical of many laptops of that era. | ||