Gigabyte G-MAX NB-1401: Beauty in the Simplest Terms
by Andrew Ku on September 23, 2003 11:14 PM EST- Posted in
- Laptops
Mobile Performance
The battery performance scores from MobileMark 2002 actually show the NB-1401 jump to the top of the Centrino pack here. A note: the scores for the Dell Latitude D800, which we left out of the graph, outperforms the NB-1401 by a small margin. Additionally, we would have expected the scores to fall in line with the processor speeds, but the NB-1401 didn’t do so. We should note that the standard deviation for general MobileMark 2002 is about 5 or 10, and so we would attribute this odd skew to that.
Unlike the previous scores, the NB-1401 falls to the bottom of the graph here. This falls more in line with our previous experience, and we have found the G-MAX NB-1401 to run for 3 hours and 31 minutes, which is just 1 minute over what Gigabyte claims it can run. We are pleased with the battery life for the NB-1401, as a little over three hours is the ideal minimum requirement for which a thin and light notebook should hit. Hopefully Gigabyte’s choice to use higher Pentium-M clocked processors won’t degrade battery life beyond 3 hours.
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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!