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Pros
Low-priced, offers nice entertainment
Cons
Short battery life

Performance: Good: 79
Features: Fair: 67
Design: Good: 78

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

Performance
ACD Systems ACDSee	672
Adobe Photoshop	364
Adobe Premiere	519
Ahead Nero	1145
Battery Life (Office Applications)	2:37
Discreet 3ds Max DirectX	307
Discreet 3ds Max OpenGL	374
Microsoft Office XP	566
Mozilla	363
Musicmatch Jukebox	572
Number of Included Batteries	1
Return to Castle Wolfenstein, 1024 by 768, 16-Bit	118
Return to Castle Wolfenstein, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	111.83
Roxio VideoWave	440
Unreal Tournament, 1024 by 768, 16-Bit	320.52
Unreal Tournament, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	211.99
Windows Media Encoder	490
WinZip	442
World Bench 5 Score	85
World Bench 5 Word Score	Very Good

WorldBench Tests
Multitasking	718

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.	Superior: 85 (Windows XP Professional)
CPU	1.86-GHz Pentium M 750
Screen size	15.4-inch wide screen
System memory	512MB of DDR333 SDRAM
Hard drive	60GB
Graphics	128MB DDR SDRAM ATI Mobility Radeon X700
Pointing device	Touchpad
Multipurpose bay	Yes
Optical drive	DVD+R DL/DVD?RW drive
Floppy drive	No
Ports	USB 2.0, FireWire, microphone and headphone jacks, S-Video, one PC Card slot
Communications	V.92 modem, gigabit ethernet, 802.11a/g
Included software	WordPerfect Office 11, McAfee VirusScan 2005, CyberLink Power Cinema, World Book 2005 Encyclopedia, Pinnacle Studio Instant CD/DVD, Quicken New User Edition, Ulead Photo Impact SE
Other features	Four-in-one media card reader
Overall design	Good
Battery life (hours:minutes)	2:37
Weight (typical/minimum, in pounds): Typical weight includes the computer, AC adapter, optical drive, and floppy drive (if offered).	8.0/6.8
Support policy	One-year parts and labor warranty; 24-hour daily toll-free support

What You Should Know about the Freestyle M7500

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.