Cheap, capable but hot running
Written: Mar 09 '04
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Pros: Inexpensive. Nice display. Plays DVDs and CD-RW.
Cons: A bit slow. Small hard drive (20G). Runs REALLY hot.
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I've had my ze1210 for over a year and it's a competent machine. Too slow for a new machine now, but it was good value last year. Main problem is it runs really hot. I run a motherboard temperature sensor program and I've seen it up at 90 degrees. That's 90 Celsius! When I say this is a hot machine that really cooks, I am speaking literally. It seems to run hotter after I upped the memory to 768Meg. But as hot as it gets, it doesn't stop working. I don't think they should have used this Athlon chip in a laptop
My solution was to buy a small fan base for it (about $8 on eBay). This keeps the temperature to around 45 degrees C.
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Yes
Amount Paid (US$): 798
Operating System: Windows
Processor: AMD Athlon (K7)
Processor speed: over 1000
Screen Size: 15 inches
RAM: More than 256
Internal Storage: CD-RW and DVD
Hard Drive (GB): 13-20
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