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Chem USA ChemBook 2333

68

Fair

  • Pros
  • Lightweight and compact
  • Cons
  • Keyboard is uncomfortable
  • Performance: Fair: 60
  • Features: Good: 71
  • Design: Fair: 66
Performance
ACD Systems ACDSee720
Adobe Photoshop358
Adobe Premiere524
Ahead Nero970
Battery Life (Office Applications)2:12
Discreet 3ds Max DirectX416
Discreet 3ds Max OpenGL493
Microsoft Office XP569
Mozilla396
Musicmatch Jukebox580
Number of Included Batteries1
Return to Castle Wolfenstein, 1024 by 768, 16-Bit45
Return to Castle Wolfenstein, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit44
Roxio VideoWave440
Unreal Tournament, 1024 by 768, 16-Bit67
Unreal Tournament, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit48
Windows Media Encoder456
WinZip439
World Bench 5 Score82
World Bench 5 Word ScoreVery Good
WorldBench Tests
Multitasking734

What You Should Know about the ChemBook 2333

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.