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WinBook X512

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Pros
Inexpensive and lightweight
Cons
Unremarkable design

Performance: Poor: 54
Features: Good: 70
Design: Good: 78

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

Performance
ACD Systems ACDSee	837
Adobe Photoshop	482
Adobe Premiere	697
Ahead Nero	1017
Battery Life (Office Applications)	3:24
Discreet 3ds Max DirectX	615
Discreet 3ds Max OpenGL	632
Microsoft Office XP	621
Mozilla	575
Musicmatch Jukebox	700
Number of Included Batteries	1
Roxio VideoWave	545
Windows Media Encoder	571
WinZip	535
World Bench 5 Score	67
World Bench 5 Word Score	Fair

WorldBench Tests
Multitasking	1019

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.	Good: 67 (Windows XP Professional)
CPU	1.5-GHz Pentium M 715
Screen size	12.1 inches
System memory	256MB of DDR333 SDRAM
Hard drive	40GB
Graphics	Integrated Intel 855GME using main memory
Pointing device	Touchpad
Bays	None
Bundled removable-media drives	Fixed DVD-ROM and CD-RW combo drive
Floppy drive	None
Ports	Three USB 2.0, FireWire, microphone, headphone, S-Video, PC Card slot
Communications	V.90 modem, 10/100 ethernet, 802.11g
Business suite	Not applicable
Other features	Not applicable
Overall design	Fair
Battery life (hours:minutes)	Good: 3:24
Weight (typical/minimum, in pounds): Typical weight includes the computer, AC adapter, optical drive, and floppy drive (if offered).	Light: 5.6/4.6
Vendor's reliability/service	Insufficient data/Insufficient data
Support policy	One-year parts and labor warranty; free unlimited 13-hour/6-day toll-free support

What You Should Know about the X512

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.