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Micro Express Micro Express JFL9226

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Very Good

  • Pros
  • Great price-performance ratio
  • Handy audio/video tweaking tools
  • Cons
  • Big and bulky for an all-purpose machine
  • Incredibly tacky faux leather plastic

Micro Express JFL9226 All-Purpose Laptop Review

- Micro Express has previously topped our charts with affordable portables such as its IFL9025. So our expectations for the company's first machine with Intel's Centrino 2 (the CPU class formerly known as "Montevina") were pretty high. Keeping true to form, Micro Express comes through with the JFL9226, a well-rounded and well-priced ($1299 as of 7/3/08) all-purpose laptop--though it does have a shortcoming or two.

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