Medion MD96290
Notebook Specifications
Notebook: Medion MD96290Processor: Intel Core Duo T2250
Graphics Adapter: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950 128 MB
Display: 15.4 inch, 16:10, 1280x800 pixels
Weight: 3kg
Price: 699 euro
Links: Medion homepage Medion notebook section
Average Score: 79% - good
Average of 2 scores (from 3 reviews)
mobility: 81%, workmanship: - %, ergonomy: 83%, emissions: 78%
Reviews for theMedion MD96290
Foreign Reviews
88% Flotter Arbeiter
Source: Computerbild - 19/2007 
, Long, Date: 09/20/2007
Rating: Total score: 88% price: 90% performance: 86% features: 83% display: 88% mobility: 84% ergonomy: 83% emissions: 93%
Dauerläufer mit Virus
Source: Stiftung Warentest - 9/07
online available, Very Short, Date: 09/05/2007
Rating: price: 90% performance: 60% features: 80% mobility: 80% emissions: 80%
70% Medion MD96290
Source: PCM 
online available, Short, Date: 09/03/2007
Rating: Total score: 70% price: 80% performance: 50% display: 80% mobility: 80% emissions: 60%
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).
Only older games can be played fluently with these graphics chips (if they were not too demanding). Shared memory graphic cores in this category got the advantage of less heat production and longer battery runtimes. For office, internet, image processing, and video editing tasks these graphics chips are still useable without any restrictions.
>> Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
Intel Core Duo: Double Core processor with a very good relation of performance to current consumption. The 2 MB L2 Cache are used together by the double. The maximum capacity of 31 watts is only 4 watts more than with the Pentium M (predecessor). Both cores are lowered automatically and independently of each other by speed steps down to 1 GHz. In addition it now supports also SSE3 instructions. At least it is just as fast as a equivalent Pentium M. With applications, which were designed for multi-processors, the performance can be nearly twice as fast as with the Pentium M (e.g. CineBench around 86% fast)
T2250:
>> Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
15.4": 15 inch display-variants are the standard and are used for more than the half of all notebooks. 15.4 inch display with 16:10 are the standard for notebook displays.
The reason why so many people like displays with medium size is, that this size is not exhausting for the eyes, does not need too much current and the laptops can be kept quite compact.
>> To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.
3 kg: This weight is average for notebooks. Therefore the numerous mass of laptops with 15 inch display fits in this class of weight.
Medion: The manufacturer of laptops Medion mainly is active in the German market, but to smaller extent also in Western Europe. Market shares and amount of reviews are low. Above all, supermarkets sell their laptops.
79%: This rating is not convincing. It must be considered, that there exist hardly any laptops, which receive a rating below 60%. This notebook is evaluated below average, this is not really a recommendation for purchase.
>> Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.
