Strengthen on-the-road video presentations with the persuasive power of multimedia. We test Pentium-based notebooks that will make your presentations bigger than life.
- by Jim Kane and John McDonough
All the notebooks we tested have the mettle to dazzle clients with multimedia presentations and provide desktop-level performance for ordinary applications.
Some of t
he notebooks we tested use a little extra hardware muscle for playing video clips, which we find provides some "must-see" movie viewing for multimedia presentations.
- by John McDonough
A low-cost, high-performance multimedia solution has emerged for those who rely on their portable desktop for full-motion video and graphics presentations.
- by Susan Colwell
Four of the notebooks that we tested -- the AMS PowerCD 8500, Chem USA ChemBook NB 5400, Micro Express NP52P133, and Micro International Mint 5200 -- have integrated CD-ROM drives and floppy drives.
To pick the best multimedia notebooks, we ran performance tests based on widely used applications, as well as NSTL's low-level InterMark performance benchmarks to see which are the fastest notebooks.
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