Gigabyte G-MAX NB-1401: Beauty in the Simplest Terms
by Andrew Ku on September 23, 2003 11:14 PM EST- Posted in
- Laptops
General Usage Performance
As you can see, the G-MAX NB-1401 doesn’t fall completely in line with the sequential processor speeds. This wasn’t a big surprise, since the G-MAX NB-1401 is outfitted with 512MB, as opposed to the 256MB on the IBM ThinkPad T40 and X31. We understand that this is a thin and light notebook, but if Gigabyte offers the full options of processor configuration (Pentium-M 1.3GHz to 1.7GHz), performance won’t be a sacrifice per weight or form factor. The NB-1401 proved to be approximately 10% slower than the 1.6GHz IBM T40p.
In the Office Productivity portion of SYSMark 2002, the NB-1401 falls behind the 1.6GHz IBM T40p by 5%, and actually matches the 1.5GHz IBM T40.
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DerProfi - Thursday, July 15, 2004 - link
My biggest beef with Gigabyte is that their RMA & support process totally sucks. Ever try getting warranty service from them? It's painful. There are no 800-numbers to call, no easy way to track the status of your RMA, and when you return your busted product to them (at your own expense) you have to include a check to cover their return shipping charges! I think I'll stick with IBM for my notebook needs.Alt - Saturday, September 27, 2003 - link
I noticed on the Gigabyte site that they appear to have no US resellers.Alt - Saturday, September 27, 2003 - link
artifex - Wednesday, September 24, 2003 - link
two things:1) "If you are looking for a compliment to your daily personal computer" - you mean complEment?
2) "This is more of a matter of semantics, and while we are talking in Chinese, we would prefer the Chinese term of 'swai', which translates to 'cool, hip, with-it', as well as other connotations." - maybe it's the sort of thing where it's not really cool if it calls itself cool?
Anonymous User - Tuesday, September 23, 2003 - link
"The big difference is the top of the laptop, which features the Chinese character equivalent of 'extreme.'"And so a new saying was born: The weird squiggly thing is for XTREME!