Twinhead Durabook D14RY
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Reviews for the Twinhead Durabook D14RY
Source: Laptop Mag Archive.org version
Once you start looking at semi-rugged notebooks, you typically have to start accepting some major tradeoffs, usually in the way of components, performance, and especially price. The Twinhead Durabook D14RY, however, demolishes that stereotype, offering a good array of features and respectable performance for a reasonable price of $2,099. This semi-rugged Vista notebook offers a design that can take a beating and a price that's hundreds less than the competition.
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3.5 von 5, Display gut, Mobilität gut
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 06/15/2007
Rating: Total score: 70% display: 80% mobility: 80%
Source: Laptop Mag Archive.org version
Once you start looking at semi-rugged notebooks, you typically have to start accepting some major tradeoffs, usually in the way of components, performance, and especially price. The Twinhead Durabook D14RY, however, demolishes that stereotype, offering a good array of features and respectable performance for a reasonable price of $2,099. This semi-rugged Vista notebook offers a design that can take a beating and a price that's hundreds less than the competition.
eher kurz gehaltener Test; online abrufbar
3.5 von 5, Display gut, Mobilität gut
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 06/15/2007
Rating: Total score: 70% display: 80% mobility: 80%
Source: Tom's Guide Archive.org version
Twinhead, maker of the Durabook, has certainly put together a rugged notebook with the D14RY. They claim that the magnesium alloy used in the Durabook's chassis is 20 times stronger than plastic. Reality is that Durabook isn't the only notebook with some sort of Magnesium alloy, HP is among those that has been using the material in its notebooks. The extra shock protection on the corners' of the Durabook and around the CPU, RAM, hard drive and DVD drive allowed the notebook to survive Ben Meyer's and Shelton Romhanyi's assault (see video) but there are other 'rugged' tests that we didn't subject the Durabook D14RY too.
ausführlicher Test mit Geräteaufbau und Testwerten und Bildern; online abrufbar
Leistung mäßig
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 05/30/2007
performance: 60%
Source: Tom's Guide Archive.org version
Twinhead, maker of the Durabook, has certainly put together a rugged notebook with the D14RY. They claim that the magnesium alloy used in the Durabook's chassis is 20 times stronger than plastic. Reality is that Durabook isn't the only notebook with some sort of Magnesium alloy, HP is among those that has been using the material in its notebooks. The extra shock protection on the corners' of the Durabook and around the CPU, RAM, hard drive and DVD drive allowed the notebook to survive Ben Meyer's and Shelton Romhanyi's assault (see video) but there are other 'rugged' tests that we didn't subject the Durabook D14RY too.
ausführlicher Test mit Geräteaufbau und Testwerten und Bildern; online abrufbar
Leistung mäßig
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 05/30/2007
performance: 60%
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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 Core 2 Duo: This is the Core Duo and Core Solo successor with a longer pipeline and 5-20% more speed without more power consumption. As an addition to the Core Duo design there exists a fourth decoder, an amplified SSE-unit and an additional arithmetical logical unit (ALU).
The Core 2 Duo for laptops is identical to the desktop Core 2 Duo processors but the notebook-processors work with lower voltages (0.95 to 1188 Volt) and a lower Frontside bus clock (1066 vs 667 MHz). The performance of equally clocked notebooks is 20-25% lower than Desktop PCs because of the lower Frontside bus clock and the slower hard disks.
T7600:
The Core 2 Duo T7600 is a Merom based Core 2 Duo with 4MB Level 2 Cache. It is positioned in the middle class (in 2009) and performs on par with a modern P7550 or Turion II Ultra M660.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
14.10":
14 inch display size represents a middle ground between the small subnotebook formats and the screens of the standard 15 inch laptops.
The reason for the popularity of mid-sized displays is that this size is reasonably easy on the eyes, provides good resolutions with usable detail sizes, yet does not consume too much power and the devices can still be reasonably compact.
In the past, 14-inch devices were very rare, but now they are the standard for laptops after the 15-inchers.
» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.Twinhead: About 20 years ago Twinhead started as an OEM manufacturer of laptops. Twinhead notebook reviews are rare as well as the global market share.
70%: This rating is poor. More than three quarters of the models are rated better. That is rather not a purchase recommendation. Even if verbal ratings in this area do not sound that bad ("sufficient" or "satisfactory"), they are usually euphemisms that disguise a classification as a below-average laptop.
» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.
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