Editor Rating 4.7/10 Published on January 21, 2005
Slick design; lightweight; functions as a USB drive; plays optical media without powering up; solid battery life....Mediocre performance; not particularly comfortable for touch-typing; no flash-memory reader or FireWire...DVD playback on our unit looked good and was stutter-free...First the bad news (if you can call it that...While it has a good key layout, with decently sized backspace, enter, and...
Most multimedia-oriented notebooks these days are nine-pound beasts that aim to supplant a traditional desktop PC...The MP30 retains Sharp's signature DirectHD port, which lets you use the notebook's drive as an auxiliary drive when it's connected to a desktop PC, and you can also sync files between the two machines...
• Wonderful display
• Can use notebook as external hard drive
• Great ultraportable design...• Not much battery life savings in instant-on mode
• Audio not always in sync during DVD playback...Sharp's MP30 is one of the more attractive and competent ultraportables around...Most ultraportable notebooks are useful for little more than gathering e-mail while...
Summary from 15 user reviews Average Rating 8.8/10
smaller keyboard and display My last laptop had all the bells and whistles (most of which I never used anyway), but it was too heavy to carry every day to work, so I did not get much use out of it...What good is an ultraportable if you have to lug an ultrabay to use the CD/DVD...The Sharp was the lightest model out there, and the experts gave it a good review, so I picked it up...
Summary from 12 user reviews Average Rating 10.0/10
Size, light weight, built in cd writer, overall appearance, normal size screen which makes fonts larger and leaves no blank areas when loading pages...Price, lack of dvd writer Lightweight and less to carry, as optical drive is included...At 2.8 lbs and 802.11g wireless lan to boot, it a truly a dream road machine! I am too awestruck and too in love with it right now to think of anything bad to say...
I Previously had the Lifebook 2110 so I know and trusted the transmeta...When I looked into ultralights while the new centrio based looked good...Transmeta is not a "gaming" cpu, while I have not tested my favorite game on this system, games tend to fail or be jumpy on tranmeta...
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