Gigabyte G-MAX NB-1401: Beauty in the Simplest Terms
by Andrew Ku on September 23, 2003 11:14 PM EST- Posted in
- Laptops
The Test
| Windows XP Professional Test System | |||||||
| Gigabyte NB-1401 | IBM X31 | FIC Centrino | IBM T40 | IBM T40P | Desktop System | ||
| CPU(s) | Pentium M 1.4GHz | Pentium M 1.4GHz | Pentium M 1.5GHz | Pentium M 1.5GHz | Pentium M 1.6GHz | Pentium 4 2.4GHz | |
| Motherboard(s) | FIC 855GM | IBM 855PM | FIC 855PM | IBM 855PM | IBM 855PM | Intel D845EBT 845E | |
| Memory | 512MB PC2100 | 256MB PC2100 | 512MB PC2100 | 256MB PC2100 | 512MB PC2100 | 512MB PC2100 | |
| Hard Drive | 40GB 4200RPM | 40GB 4200RPM | 30GB 4200RPM | 40GB 5400RPM | 40GB 5400RPM | IBM Deskstar DPTA-372050 20.5GB 7200 RPM | |
| CDROM | N/A | N/A | CD-RW/DVD | CD-RW/DVD | CD-RW/DVD | Philips 48X | |
| Video Card(s) | Integrated 855GM | ATI Mobility Radeon 16MB DDR | Integrated 855PM | ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 | ATI Mobility FireGL 9000 64MB DDR | ATI Radeon 9000 Pro 64MB NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 128MB |
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| Ethernet | Onboard Intel Gigabit | Onboard Intel Gigabit | Onboard Intel Pro/100VE | Onboard Intel Gigabit | Onboard Intel Gigabit | Linksys LNE100TX 100Mbit PCI Ethernet Adapter | |
| Operating System | Windows XP Professional SP1 | ||||||
| Video Drivers | Intel 6.13.10.3510 | ATI 7.79.7.3 (latest available for IBM) | Intel 6.13.01.3460 | ATI 6.13.10.6278 (latest available for IBM) |
ATI 7.79.7.3 (latest available for IBM) | ATI Catalyst 3.1 NVIDIA 41.09 |
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| Benchmarking Applications | Bapco SysMark 2002 ZDM Content Creation Winstone 2003 ZDM Business Winstone 2002 BAPCo Mobile Mark 2002 |
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For benchmarking purposes, we set the pre-allocated amount of video memory to 16MB (default), which left more system memory free for the memory-hungry applications we put it through.
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DerProfi - Thursday, July 15, 2004 - link
My biggest beef with Gigabyte is that their RMA & support process totally sucks. Ever try getting warranty service from them? It's painful. There are no 800-numbers to call, no easy way to track the status of your RMA, and when you return your busted product to them (at your own expense) you have to include a check to cover their return shipping charges! I think I'll stick with IBM for my notebook needs.Alt - Saturday, September 27, 2003 - link
I noticed on the Gigabyte site that they appear to have no US resellers.Alt - Saturday, September 27, 2003 - link
artifex - Wednesday, September 24, 2003 - link
two things:1) "If you are looking for a compliment to your daily personal computer" - you mean complEment?
2) "This is more of a matter of semantics, and while we are talking in Chinese, we would prefer the Chinese term of 'swai', which translates to 'cool, hip, with-it', as well as other connotations." - maybe it's the sort of thing where it's not really cool if it calls itself cool?
Anonymous User - Tuesday, September 23, 2003 - link
"The big difference is the top of the laptop, which features the Chinese character equivalent of 'extreme.'"And so a new saying was born: The weird squiggly thing is for XTREME!