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Micro Express 259iA1

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Pros
Sleek, with a sharp design
Cons
Has a difficult touchpad

Performance: Superior: 91
Features: Good: 78
Design: Good: 75

Find out how these scores, and their relative weights, combine to produce the PC World Rating.

Performance
ACD Systems ACDSee	524
Adobe Photoshop	312
Adobe Premiere	437
Ahead Nero	757
Battery Life (Office Applications)	2:50
Discreet 3ds Max DirectX	259
Discreet 3ds Max OpenGL	346
Microsoft Office XP	495
Mozilla	323
Musicmatch Jukebox	504
Number of Included Batteries	1
Roxio VideoWave	397
Windows Media Encoder	392
WinZip	375
World Bench 5 Score	99
World Bench 5 Word Score	Superior

WorldBench Tests
Multitasking	636

Performance
WorldBench 5: Performance word scores reflect comparisons of notebooks in the same category running the same operating system. See Guide to the Top-Rated Products for more details.	Outstanding: 99 (Windows XP Home)
CPU	2.1-GHz Pentium M 765
Screen size	15.4-inch 1680-by-1050-pixel (wide)
System memory	1024MB of DDR400 SDRAM
Hard drive	60GB
Graphics	256MB ATI Mobility Radeon
Pointing device	Touchpad
Bays	None
Bundled removable-media drives	Fixed DVD?RW drive
Floppy drive	None
Ports	Three USB 2.0, FireWire, microphone, headphone, S-Video, antenna, PC Card slot
Communications	V.92 modem, gigabit ethernet, 802.11g
Business suite	N/A
Other features	TV-in and TV-out ports, SD Card slot
Overall design	Good
Battery life (hours:minutes)	Fair: 2:50
Weight (typical/minimum, in pounds): Typical weight includes the computer, AC adapter, optical drive, and floppy drive (if offered).	Average: 8.3/7.0
Vendor's reliability/service	Insufficient data/Insufficient data
Support policy	Two-year parts and labor warranty; free unlimited 24-hour daily toll-free support

What You Should Know about the 259iA1

Not Much RAM for Multitasking

The more RAM your laptop has, the faster programs will run and the greater number of windows you can work in at one time. If your needs are simple and you rarely do more than two things at once on your PC, the relatively modest amount of memory that comes installed in inexpensive laptops will be enough. Today the standard amount of RAM shipped in most PCs is 2GB. If you like to multitask--say, you want to launch a search for a file and start backing up data to a disc while you watch a news video--you need more memory.