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M&A Technology Companion Touch

Specifications

M&A Technology Companion Touch
M&A Technology Companion Touch
Processor
Intel Atom N270 1 x 1.6 GHz, DiamondVille
Display
8.90 inch 10:6, 1024 x 600 pixel, glossy: yes
Weight
1.3 kg ( = 45.86 oz / 2.87 pounds) ( = 0 oz / 0 pounds)
Price
350 Euro
Sold in
Anglo-America

 

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Average Score: 50% - poor
Average of 1 scores (from 1 reviews)

Reviews for the M&A Technology Companion Touch

50% M&A Companion Touch
Source: PC Mag English Archive.org version
The M&A Companion Touch ($500 direct) is a netbook-size convertible PC that aspires to be a take-along pal for elementary school children. But the 2.8-pound device barely gets a passing grade, due to a flawed touchscreen and a haphazard approach to creating a kid-friendly interface. The M&A Companion Touch fuses a netbook and a Tablet PC in one 2.8-pound convertible designed for the elementary classroom. But the result fails to distinguish itself as a kid-friendly netbook, and its uncooperative touchscreen and slightly high price don't deliver on value and features.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 11/24/2009
Rating: Total score: 50%

Comment

Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 is an integrated (onboard) graphic chip on Mobile Intel 945GM chipset. It is a faster clocked version of the GMA 900 and supports no hardware T&L (Transform & Lightning) accelleration (which is required for some games).

These graphics cards are not suited for Windows 3D games. Office and Internet surfing however is possible.

» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.


Intel Atom: The Intel Atom series is a 64-Bit (not every model supports 64bit) microprocessor for cheap and small notebooks (so called netbooks), MIDs, or UMPCs. The speciality of the new architecture is the "in order" execution (instead of the usual and faster "out of order" execution). Therefore, the transistor count of the Atom series is much lower and, thus, cheaper to produce. Furthermore, the power consumption is very low. The performance per Megahertz is therfore worse than the old Pentium 3M (1,2 GHz on par with a 1.6 GHz Atom).


N270:

Power efficient, cheap and slow Netbook single core CPU. Because of the in-order execution, the performance per MHz is worse than Core Solo or Celeron M processors.

» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.


8.90":

Large smartphones and a few small tablets are available for this display size. Unlike most smartphones, you can see more on the screen, more details and use larger resolutions. Such formats are better for people with defective vision. However, such devices are no longer easy to fit in a pocket, and they are probably not quite light either.

» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.


M&A Technology: US-computer shop, which markets its own laptop brand.


50%: This rating is bad and very rare. There are only a few models that are rated so poorly. If the source is reputable, then a purchase is probably not advisable.


» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.

 

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Current Prices
Stefan Hinum, 2010-01-11 (Update: 2012-05-26)