Twinhead Durabook D14RY

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Reviews for the Twinhead Durabook D14RY

70% Twinhead Durabook D14RY
Source: Laptop Mag
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%

Can We Break a Durabook?
Source: Tom's Guide
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.
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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).

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.

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

14.1": 14 inch display size is a mixture between the small formats of subnotebooks and the 15 inch standard display.
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.

2.3 kg: These sub-notebooks weight less than the average of all notebooks, but represent a heavier class of weight among the sub-notebooks. 13 inch displays are normal for this class of weight.

70%: This rating is bad. Most notebooks are better rated. This is not a recommendation for purchase.

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