The brightness in the corners is significantly lower, so, that there is a difference of 38%. Depending on the brightness of the displayed pictures, this is not recognizable or you'll recognize slightly darker corners. The good thing is that the display is driven with full brightness even in battery mode. Lenovo IdeaPad U260 battery uk

The Satellite X200's screen scores points regarding contrast. A quite low black value of only 0.23 cd/m ² gives together with the maximum brightness an excellent contrast ratio of 752:1. LENOVO IdeaPad U300s battery

The reaction speed of the display is 18ms (gray to gray response time, averaged standardized 8 point measurement). Though not absolutely convincing, this should be sufficient for hobby gamers. LENOVO IdeaPad U310 battery

As you can see on the video about the viewing angles, the reflecting surface is the major drawback of the provided display. Even indoors in moderately bright environments you can face reflections when displaying dark pictures. So, we recommend to carefully place the notebook with regard to surrounding sources of light. For the same reason you can forget about using this notebook outdoors. Lenovo u410 charger

Regarding viewing angles, you'll face a slow loss of contrast and reflections horizontally. Vertically, when looking from bottom up, the display darkens while it whitens, when looking the other way round. The area of operation is acceptable and sufficient. LENOVO IdeaPad Z480AX battery uk

The Toshiba Satellite X200 is offered with three different processors out of the house Intel (T7300, T7500 and T7700) as well as with two different graphics cards currently. A nVIDIA Geforce 8600mGT SLI solution and a Geforce 8700 M GT graphics card can be chosen regarding this. LENOVO IdeaPad Z380 battery

The question which of the two options the roper Gaming performance promises now arises here. One may more efficient 8700M GT graphics card with 256 of this one to himself or 512 MB of GDDR3 video memory and one hope for assembly line balancing of 625/800 MHz of the roper results or make two 8600M GT chips (475/700 MHz and 2x256MB GDDR3 VRAM) in the SLI combine the run? LENOVO IdeaPad Z480 battery

We look at the two variants in the comparison of the reached 3D marks benchmark results first. Here the 8600M GT get clear quite fast that this solution has the nose considerably in front. With 3D Mark 2006 benchmark the two Geforce 8600M GT graphics cards in the SLI combine only just behind the Geforce Go 7950 GTX SLI and the Geforce 8700 M GT SLI graphic solutions. According to first reports the Geforce still bothered by acute difficulties with supply of 8800 M GTX shall be the 3D Mark06 benchmark comparison considerably first with about 9000 points. LENOVO IdeaPad Z580 charger

At the time of writing the Satellite X200 is available with three different Intel CPUs, (T7300, T7500, or T7700). Furthermore, you can choose between two different video cards, the Geforce 8700M GT SLI video card or a 8600M GT SLI video card. Lenovo 0A36281 battery uk

Obviously, the most important question is which of these provides the better gaming performance. Is it the inherently more powerful 8700M GT or two 8600M GT video cards in SLI network? Lenovo 0A36282 charger

Let's first look at the 3DMark results of these two versions. Here the 8600M GT SLI bundle clearly wins. The 3DMark 2006 uncovers that the two 8600GT SLI cards are slightly outperformed by the Geforce Go 7950 GTX SLI and the Geforce 8700M GT SLI solution. First reports state that the Geforce 8800M GTX, which has supply difficulties at the moment, reaches 9000 points in the 3DMark06 benchmark, which is clearly top. Lenovo 0A36283 battery uk

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As these benchmark results do not necessarily inform about gaming performance in practice, we performed some gaming test. The following diagrams depict the results of Doom3 (OpenGL) and F.E.A.R (DirectX 9). Of course you'll also need to consider other equipment details, e.g., CPU performance, if you compare the results, because they have quite a big impact when running these games at low resolution and details. The graphic performance gets more obvious, if you run these games at high resolution and details. Lenovo 42T4863 charger

The Doom 3 performance test (Timedemo 1, average frames/second) with ultra details and a standard resolution of 1024x768 is won by the 8700M GT SLI video solution, followed by the 8600M GT SLI chip, followed (with some distance) by the 8700M GT video card, the Geforce Go 7950 GTX SLI, and the 8600M GT. Lenovo 42Y4864 battery uk

However, the results of FEAR, which is rather demanding and sensible to driver troubles, is completely different. The7950 GTX SLI wins, followed by the rest of the examined video cards, which are close to each other. We were especially surprised by the good results of the 8600M GS video card with GDDR memory in the Samsung X65, which reached excellent 68 fps at maximum CPU and GPU settings. This also hints on a general driver problem with FEAR. Lenovo 42T4867

Looking into the future, DirectX 10 gets important. Although, there is no notebook available at the moment, which would provide smooth DirectX10 gaming fun at a good resolution, this is a main aspect for high-performance video chips, such as in the Toshiba X200, nowadays. Lenovo 42Y4868 battery uk

The Crysis CPU and GPU benchmark results were rather disillusioning. Lenovo 42T4873 charger The Satellite reached at a resolution of 1024x768 and presets at low 55.6 Fps in the GPU and 54.4 Fps in this CPU test on average. If you either increase the resolution or the number of details, the game gets unplayable. Furthermore, the benchmark test was again and again interrupted and the error message " CryEngine2 does no longer work" was displayed, when we tried medium details at a resolution of 1280x800.
So, regarding Crysis you'll still need to wait for the 8800M GTX video card, which will be provided in some notebooks at the beginning of 2008. Lenovo 42Y4874

The strategy game World in Conflict also supports DirectX10 at high details. The results were similar to Crysis: Even at a low resolution of 800x600 pixels we measured only 18 fps in benchmark test. However, the results at medium details (DirectX9) were clearly better. 34 Fps at a resolution of 1280x800 are well playable. This is also proved by the following game test in practice. Lenovo 42T4901

During a 2 vs 2 game we measured an average of 70-90 Fps and the game ran smoothly. Lenovo 42Y4940 A higher resolution (1280x800) is also possible, however, there might be some flickering. However, setting details to high (DX10) causes a clear loss of performance. At resolutions from 1280x800 to 1680x1050 only 10-20 Fps were possible, which is far from being playable. For comparison, e.g., the mySN D901C DTR Notebook with 8700MGT SLI video card and Intel Core Extreme 3.0 GHz CPU reached 20-30 fps here. Lenovo 42T4902 battery uk

Still, the question whether to prefer a Satellite X200 with 8600M GT SLI or Geforce of 8700M GT remains difficult to answer. Lenovo 45N1024 If you stick to the 3DMark results the SLI video solution is better. In practice the SLI solution is also better at Doom3, however, outperformed by the 8700M GT at FEAR. Overall, the performance of these two solutions are close, but, the SLI solution can only run at highest performance, if SLI is supported by the software. So, the more powerful 8700M GT will outperform the two 8600M GTs, whenever a game does not support SLI. Lenovo 45N1025 battery uk

Furthermore, we want to mention two further equipment details of the Satellite X200: Lenovo 0A36285 charger The notebook computer is equipped with two hard disks, each having a capacity of 200 GB. So, a total hard disk capacity of 400 GB is available. Two Toshiba MK2035GSS hard disks with a revolution speed of 4200 revs/min are used. Compared to other 5400 and 7200 revs/min hard disk the transfer rate and access time of these two were clearly worse. If you don't need that much capacity and would prefer a better hard disk performance you might be better off by choosing 2 160GB 5400 revs/min hard disks, which are provided by other X200 models. Lenovo 0A36286

Furthermore, the X200-21P comes with an Intel turbo memory PCI express module ("Robson"), which provides quick access to files often accessed. However, it is still heavily discussed whether there is an actual performance gain. Lenovo 42T4877 battery uk

Since these benchmark values do not give information absolutely also over the practical playing performance, Lenovo 42T4878 of course playing tests are also inevitable. Followingly two diagrams with the comparison of current graphics cards with the Games Doom3 (opengl) and F.E.A.R. (DirectX9). Of course at these comparisons is the CPU performance and notebook computer also to take into account dependent differences which has very strongly partly a special effect at low resolutions and details. The graphic performance crystallizes more considerably only at high resolutions and detail wealth. Lenovo S200

Even in idle mode the fan ran permanently. Regardless, whether SLI was activated or deactivated, regardless of the Windows performance profile (balanced vs. energy saving) the fans ran always and caused a noise level of 37.5 dB. Lenovo 121001071 charger

However, the two built-in hard disks were rather quiet, and there noise level always stayed below the noise level of the fans. Lenovo 121001091
Under load the fans start running at a higher speed, and reach a maximum noise level of 43.9dB. We observed that the speed of the fan changes from time to time under load.

Quite a number of Toshiba notebooks are already equipped with Harman/Cardon speakers, Lenovo 121001094 charger and so is the Satellite X200-21P. The four speaker are nicely located above the keyboard. Each side has a speaker for high tones and another one for low tones. In addition there is a sub-woofer at the bottom side of the notebook.
We were pleased by the sound of this sound system, the sound is clear and bright. Also the basses are also alright. So, you can really enjoy listening to music or to sound effects when playing computer games. Lenovo 121001096 battery uk

The Thoshiba X200-21P is equipped with a 6000mAh (64.8 Wh) battery, which allows a limited mobile use of the notebook. Under load (Windows performance profile "High Performance", WLAN on, SLI activated, max.display brightness) we measured a battery runtime of less than one hour. The maximum runtime is about two hours (SLI deactivated, Windows performance profile "Battery saving", min. display brightness, WLAN off). Lenovo 57Y6454 charger

The Toshiba Satellite X 200-21 P is a well equipped DTR notebook computer, whose two Geforce 8600M GT video cards in SLI network could also attract gamers. The case looks good, yet decent. Furthermore, stability and workmanship of the case are good. Lenovo 57Y6455

The X200 can basically score points by interface availability. Among others there are six USB 2.0 ports and a HDMI port. Furthermore, the notebook is equipped with a 1.3 megapixel webcam, a fingerprint reader, and a HD DVD drive. Depending on your needs the order of the interfaces might not be ideal. Lenovo L08S6Y21

The Satellite X 200-21P comes with a well structured keyboard, with good key size and an extra numerical keypad. Typing fast, the keys seemed a little loose and the keyboard clattered a little bit. The touch pad is user-friendly, whereas we liked its dual mode. Lenovo L09C6Y02 battery uk

The WSXGA display in the 16:10 format provides a good desktop size and subjectively also a good picture. However, we detected a moderate luminance during our measurements. The glare type surface and the moderate brightness can lead to disturbing reflections. Lenovo L09L6Y02 charger

Equipped with T7700 CPU by Intel and nVIDIA Geforce 8600M GT SLI video cards, the performance of the X200-21P is good. However, high resolutions and high details uncover limitations in games with DirectX10 support. Here only the Geforce 8800M GTX, which is not yet available at the moment, would be an alternative. Lenovo L09M6Y02

Unfortunately, high performance usually also means high waste heat. However, the two fans run permanently, so, the surface temperature stays always alright.The ThinkPad T61 looks typical Lenovo, black, edgy, and huge. However, according to its size of 31,2 x 25,5 x 2,4 to 2.7 cm³ and its weight of about 2.50 kg, it is actually not bigger or heavier than other 14,1-inch business notebooks. Lenovo L09N6Y02 battery uk

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