Medion Akoya E1315

The Medion Akoya Mini E1315 is a so-called thin-and-llight notebook and thus falls between notebook and netbook. The notebook is equipped with AMD / ATi hardware. Below are the most important hardware features: Processor: AMD Sempron 210U Mobile, single-core, 1.5 GHz Graphics: X1250 Chipset: R690M/SB600 Memory: 1GB Dual Channel Hard Disk: 160 GB USB: 3 x USB2.0 LAN: 10/100 Mb WLAN: 802.11b/g/n Bluetooth: 2.0 EDR Modem: GPRS / EDGE / UMTS / HSDPA 3G Modem Display: Reflective, 11'6 inches with 1366 x 768 pixels, LED lights Battery: 6 Cells Extras: HDMI, Express card slot, card reader, webcam , this notebook came with an extra Vodafone simcard that was already installed. Furthermore'm getting a dust cloth, complete software CD, power adapter and manual. The E1315 is available in black or white. I have the black version, which is quite sensitive to finger prints. When unpacking is that the notebook is nice and light, about 1.5 kg. This is of course also because a DVD drive is missing. The formats are not so bad ... just a little smaller than an A4. However, the notebook is thicker than expected (about 3 cm) but disturbing is not it. What is disturbing is the thick border around the screen. It would be easy even a slightly larger screen can be built ... 13 inches should be. Not been an issue The screen itself is reflective but is otherwise crisp and gedetailleertd. However, the black levels are a bit disappointing. The resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels ensures that there is sufficient information to fit web pages to the width of the screen. In height, it is sometimes just a little too much. Also, you must have good eyes ... at 11'6 inches and the resolution is font at the bottom of enjoyable. terms of hardware, the E1315 is better equipped than the typical netbook. This ensures that there just may be. Tastier and faster work Fast is it all but never for everyday tasks is working fine. Gaming is not weggelgd for this laptop. HD video is possible, but only up to 720P. Afterwards, the processor and graphics card too difficult. Moreover, this laptop a full size keyboard with unfortunately, flat keys. This is sometimes typed wrong. All keys are called in their proper place. For some, however, would be a problem. Placement of the Fn key (Far left). The touchpad is a good old Synaptics Gedurfd and does its job well. There are no scroll mark areas on the touchpad, but this can be set in the driver. Multi-touch is as far as I know, not onderteund. terms of connectivity, the E1315 scores the most points. Actually missing only gigabit ethernet. Bluetooth, however, is fitted as standard and modern WLAN card supports 802.11b/g/n. The feat of this laptop is the built Huawei E770 3G modem. It supports everything from GPRS to HSDPA and has excellent driver support. Even though there was a Vodafone prepaid card included ... the modem is further unlock. , the battery life is somewhat disappointing compared to laptops on intel hardware. In normal use, around 3 pm. This is sufficient for commuters in the train, but not if you want to use it. Notebook for long flights If OS is Windows XP installed. On top Medion has already installed a lot of software like MS Office 2007 (Trial), Ms Works, Bullguard Anti Virus (Trial) and Cyberlink Youcam. Furthermore, there is a convenient option and restore all of the software included on CD. Windows XP hear in my opinion not at home on a laptop like this. It looks hopelessly outdated from a 11'6 screen with 1366 x 768 pixels. This is partly due to the font and color scheme. Windows 7 looks a lot better, and the hardware can perfectly. Aero works with full gear. Installing from USB stick goes smoothly and only the Huawei 3G modem and WLAN card must be installed separately later. really nice but it is only with Ubuntu 9.04. The default thicker and bigger looking font comes into its own on the small screen. As a result, Ubuntu works slightly better than as windows. Unfortunately, the installation of USB will not work at first. Eventually Ubuntu may or via Windows originally executed suffering. Unfortunately, there are problems with 3D Now!, The power saving feature of AMD. This makes the battery life considerably shorter. The WLAN should be installed with the Windows driver via ndiswrapper. Conclusion: The Medion Akoya Mini E1315 is a complete, thin-and-light notebook. However, due to its hardware platform from AMD / ATi and 11'6 inch screen of 1366 x 768 pixels, it is not a laptop for everyone. However, the weight, size and built-in 3G modem, make this an ideal mobile companion, as long as you but after 3 hours a socket at your disposal.