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yup i have it on mine and its great! I am successfully running xp for over a week!

WiFi works, great. Ok battery life ~2 hours on video, so enough for 1 movie. Don't know where to get additional battery. The AC adapter is tiny! This is a good thing, especially when traveling- using 65W max.

Build in speaker is very good, better than most laptop build-in types.

Touch pad is responsive, works well. Keyboard is ok, feels a bit cheap, but no keyboard errors. DVD+DL drive is cheap, I need to be nice to it, it can't take much abuse. Burns DVD and CDs fine. Only burned 3 so far, all ok.

Here's my overall assessment: this is a $330 laptop (incl CA tax + $6 environmental fee), for another $25 and 2GB, 3GB total. It's a decent machine. I just hope it holds up for a few years, if so, its a deal. I don't know if it can handle the abuse of daily travel, so I won't.

By performance comparison, this is like last year's (2007) mid-line laptop, with 14" Wide LCD, and basic Vista.
No frills, no extras (like webcam, bluetooth, or PCMCIA slots).

I'm glad I've made this purchase. One last note, this is my 1st vista PC and I hate vista. Made it look like classic windows just for my comfort. But one really Surprising thing, over 1 week, the laptop has been on and it hasn't crashed yet! I been giving this laptop a real good workout, installing major apps, video processing files, itunes, moving huge files around my home network wirelessly, etc. THis little dude hasn't crashed once yet!

My next cheapo laptop will be the WalMart Compaq for also $300. I'll try to get one of those

2k1civicexcoupe said:yup i have it on mine and its great! I am successfully running xp for over a week!

The only problem im having is the 1280 x 800 resolution always defaults back to 1280x 768 and is stretched.
How did you get around that?

No modem, no PCMCIA

boniam said:I bought couple of these and i just noticed on specs that it doesn't have modem listed at bestbuy. Can anybody please confirm this? I haven't opened it yet and it is important for me before i open it.

Ordered online for Christmas gift and have already received it. Now I just received and email from Best Buy apologizing that the item was advertised with 3 USB ports and actually only has 2. They sent me a $10 digital coupon for a future purchase. If you ordered online you should be receiving the email shortly, and should be able to call in store and ask for gift card or something.

Question: does it support 220V and 110V?
I am planning to use it for travel, but do not want to open the box if it does not support 220V.

Thanks in advance.

$11.00 shipped for a 1gb chip to upgrade this to the full 2gb at kingston regular $13 on sale $11

http://shop.kingston.com/partsinfo.asp?promo=PRCGRBR&ktcpartno=KVR800D2S6/1G

-Mike

Hi does anyone know where I can get the xp drivers for an emachine g420 series? thanks

Ive installed a 5600x2 and 4 gigs of ram. Also installed segate 7200rpm 320 gig drive. The laptop works great. My battery life tho is only 40 mins lol. Its a fun laptop to play around with. Ive tried the 4850e which works fine. I also tried the 8450 x3 but would not boot. Ive upgraded the power supply the last one couldn't keep up.
Paul