someone pm me about t31, so i'll post it here to.
overall i'm pretty happy with it.
but nothing is perfect.
what i don't like about it.
the glossy screen hurt my eyes, any brand with it hurt my eyes ;p
the speaker is pure evil, better get earphones, i'm not expecting anything but could've been better.
the screen built is kinda flimsy. put some pressure on it and the surface bends a little. meaning, you don't wanna stck thing on the notebook, give a punch, and drop it.
my lcd got a stuck pixel, which wan't visible when i tested it out. and benq policy is its not considered as a defect. you need to get a lot more stuck pixel. its fixable by a software, but didn't work for me, yet.
jsceenfix is the tool.
runs pretty cool when idle and small task such as web surfing, office.
get into gaming it'll burn ya, nah, but kinda hot. but except for the insulated thinkpad, every notebook does that.
my sister's dell latitude c2d t7200 runs hotter idling, didn't test in full load.
the fan isn't loud, not annoying loud. acceptable. during gaming? too busy to notice
and the most evil, is when my sister bring home an infected thumb drive, damn her friends are a virus-brewing-pot. and whe said they have antivirus, well, the next step woulde've been, USE IT.
it looks good. in black. white is plastic.
why i didn't get a twinhead? my sister said its too small, accountant use excel, and any smaller will blind you, its raelly her notebook, i'm just the consultant. and the paint will get worn in time, as i saw in a user posted image. t31 is kinda those coloured pallet kind of plastic, rather than paint.
it does feel plasticky, but bleh, good enough.
it does looks good, and feels good to. the touchpad is responsive, and the button button needs a small click, unlike compaq v3000 which is deep, its crap.keyboard is kinda good, not as good as a real keyboard, but good.
gaming?
i've only tried wolfenstein enemy territory, don't know how to run widescreen yet, but at 1024x768 with settings to high i can get 50fps max.
it'll only get a slowdown when there's a crap lot of artillery and air strike at once, briefly. very playable. this is quake3 engine mind that. halo 1 runs pretty smooth at 800x600. this is with 128MB shared video ram dual channel 1GB ram
i only got 2-2.5hours of battery with idling and light work.
with full battery, playing wolfET alittle bit, 50minutes at 80%.
why i didn't get c2d base system, which i'm glad i didn't, gma950 kinda suck. from the test on the dell latitude. despite being dx9, it doesn't run videos in vmr9 properly, this is with coreavc and ffdshow. the chroma kinda b0rked, so i run it in overlaymixer, simple xvid avi got stuck in the first frame. mplayerc crashed. so only vmr7 worked. this is not an extensive test. but the setup works on my t31 and desktop. i blame gma
dedicated is out of budget, but if you want to go for core duo, achievable, light weight? no.
i really did my homework before buying, all 3 months of it. and came to conclude with benq, the condition, which is, cheap, light, small, and got power
when you buy check your ram speeds, i only got 533, bleh, 667 would've been better, its the same price.
check for dead and stuck pixel, stuck pixel is visible under dark/black screen. dead visible in white.
get 1GB of ram, will extend your battery life. the logic is, when you turn of your paging file, the hdd won't get accessed everytime you do something. and hdd is a TNB eater rather than ram. and you're gonna get a better, faster experience.
you can get s31 with core duo for RM2999.
finally. i think its a good buy. no regrets, exceptfor the missed stuck pixel and 533 ram.
oh, and i heard twinhead had kinda bad after sales support, but i'm not saying benq is avy better, cause i really don't know, yet
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any user of t31 can giv me some review of this laptop
cos i found out it's worth cos it's so small
the graphic card is shared memory or?
mine is not a review, but what i think of it ;p
its not that small same width as a 15" xga.
it uses intergrated graphics, meaning shared, max is 256MB, really 128 is enough the bottleneck is there, 256MB would give a miniscule boost if any.
for IGP its the best now, don't know about intel x3000, but that propably release in june? nvidia6150 is good to. gma950, bleh.
haven't benchmark yet, too lazy.
Added on March 22, 2007, 5:17 pmQUOTE(Teen-Rex @ Mar 22 2007, 02:41 PM)
I'm an owner of Joybook S53W . 1 thing I dun like abt the laptop is the sound quality tat the speaker made. The SRS only nice when have an external sound system. No problem with playing games, DVDs, and others.
The worst thing that ever happened was when my laptop's LAN connection not working properly (couldn't detect or sumthing) and I send to 2 the retailer. They couldn't fix the problem and they sent it to KL to check the problem. After a month, they still couldn't find out the problem and they wanted to sent my laptop to Taiwan... this is so... sweat: However, on that time, Taiwan got earthquake which causes the internet connection down. So, they send my laptop to Penang (to the manufacturer) and they change the whole motherboard and stuff like that. After 2 months of waiting, I finally get back my laptop. BenQ made the laptops and sumthing wrong with the laptop they can't even fix that problem?
would've been faster if you drive to penang and get it fixed
koatcha >_<
if all yo do is surf the web and do office work, you might want to consider sempron system. if in taiwan t31 does come with a sempron. you might get a cooler system, my desktop runs a sempron and it max out at 35C idles at 24-28C. the turion x2 idles at ~40C and on fire when maxed out
dunnno about celeron.
sempron system would be twinheaed and fujitsu's 15incher. cheap too.
really, reading manga with x2 is overkill.
you might want it if you encode video, does 3d apps, gimp, mathematical research. folding.
what you need is ram.
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Jan 21 2007, 03:28 AM, updated 18y ago
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....also tried some light multitasking, watch movie, transfer file via bluetooth, installing some applications...it also run smoothly...
It also has a 1.3 mpx webcam which is quite clear (at least from what I tested). Looks like price has dropped RM 200 for this models. Previously when I asked, the price was RM4.1k with 2gb DDR2.
. More worth then buy in penang. 
Even some forumer said this lappy should be match with higher C2D model processor .
matte finish wins 
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