This Review is from guilar;

Finally, I now have the time to buckle down and start my user’s review for Gizmo, my first ever laptop. I must agree that a laptop is a big investment, and one has to be sure about whether they are getting their money’s worth. Needless to say I poured a lot of time doing research about the subject and scouting on what available brands/units/specs are out there in the Philippine market.

In the end, I took home a 13.3″ Core Duo notebook in shiny silver Al-Mg alloy casing, with enhanced video power from its ATI X1300 Mobility Radeon chip. It’s from BLUE, a Filipino brand from Axis Global, Inc., though further research on the notebook PC revealed it’s original manufacturer to be Arima Corp. of Taiwan (who produced laptops for one of the bigger Amaerican brands). Its model name is Radon [W310], and I have christened it MyToy Gizmo (well, if you’ve read this article, it originally was named as ‘MyToy’ - this will give you the reason why I renamed it to Gizmo).

A quick rundown of Gizmo’s specs:

* 13.3″ WXGA Display 1280 x 800
* Intel Core Duo T2400 1.83 GHz processor
* 1 GB DDR2 RAM
* ATI X1300 Video Card with HyperMemory (256 MB max.)
* 60 GB SATA Hitachi Harddisk
* Built-n Intel Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0
* SD / MC / MMC Card reader
* PCI-E Mini slot
* DVD +/- RW

It runs WindowsXP SP2, but is fully Vista-capable. I won’t be upgrading to the new Windows OS yet unitl I get confident that it will run all games I’d like to load up in it.

Oh, and I’d like to calrify that this review is from a user’s perspective. I’m a typical engineering worker in need of a mobile computing device which the office has not given out yet. So I decided to get one. I’m a newbie techie now engrossed in the world of computers since one of my passions is all about computers and graphics and performance - no, not software programming - gaming! hehehe… I’m a PC gamer since my Mom sent me an IBM PS2 when I was in highschool. I’ve had one more PC to use before I bought a desktop in 2005. It has always been my dream to have a laptop and, thank God for the graces, now that I have one, I’d like to share my experience with it to those who would want to have it for themselves as well. <As a disclaimer, I don’t work for the company who sells this PC nor do I intend to sell this kind of laptop.

This is Packard Bell’s EASYNOTE BU45-P-063, small with good features,  very easy to carry and has nice screen display, BUT will it meet our standards in performance? we will know when we try. Here are the specs of this Laptop;

• Processor    Intel® Coreâ„¢2 Duo T5300 @ 1.73Ghz, Cache 2MB,Bus Speed 533 Mhz
• Motherboard    Mobile G945 Express chipset,Bus Speed 667 MHz
• Memory        2*512 MB RAM
• Hard Disk Drive    120 GB
• Card reader    4 in 1 (SD/MMC/MS/MSpro)
• CD-RW / DVD-RW    DVD-RW Dual Layer
• Graphics    Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950 integrated graphic
• Screen        12.1-inch
• Battery        3 Cells Li-Ion
• Communication    Integrated 10/100 LAN Ethernet, WIFI 802.11 a/b/g
• Price        Php 37,995

Hope this laptop brings new heights to our laptop crazed community ^_^