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Windows 7 Has Landed - part 2 of 1 2 3 4 5

by Mike McNamee Published 01/02/2010

The power brick is quite neat and has a unique reverse plug which grabs a bit of space and also keeps the PSU from being flat on a surface (for cooling). An exceptionally neat feature is the ring light on the power insertion socket (the laptop end). This will be a boon when you are scrambling about under a dark podium trying to find the end of the lead!

The screen bezel boasts an ambient light sensor, microphone, web cam and an 'on air' warning light. The porting consists of an Express Card 34, Headphone, Mic, 4-pin Firewire, a single USB on one side and a combined USB/eSATA on the other. In addition there are GigaBit Ethernet, VGA out and a SmartCard reader.

Testing

We started with the installed XP on one machine and loaded Windows 7 on another (the 32-bit Professional version). We then loaded the full Adobe Creative Design Suite and the full Microsoft Office suite. Installing W7 took 28 minutes and we noted that the DVD was quite noisy in operation. After installation we carried out benchmarks for the various operations, as tabled. We noted that Windows 7 booted more and more quickly with successive uses to reach the tabled value; as is often the case, XP started to slow as more software was installed.

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