AJP D410

Weighing a hefty 3.6kg, the AJP D410 is one notebook you'll want to keep on your desk, while the cooling fan for the 2.8GHz Pentium 4 certainly catches your attention: this is one loud laptop.

Backing up the processor is 512MB of DDR memory, fast becoming the standard for notebooks of this size, so it has enough performance to handle today's business applications.

What is really impressive about the D410 is the graphics performance, which comes as no surprise as it uses ATI's 64MB Mobility Radeon 9000.

It scores 6,667 in 3Dmark 2001, and the Sysmark score of 214 proves it is no performance slouch.

The D410 is strangely one-sided when it comes to what's built into the chassis. The right-hand side is empty save for the Kensington Lock slot, with the optical drive, floppy drive, single Type II PC Card slot and a USB port all built into the left side. The front edge houses the two speakers and the three audio ports, as well as the on-off switch for Bluetooth.

The rear panel contains the usual ports; single PS/2, S-Video, Lan, modem, serial and parallel along with two USB ports.

For storage the D410 has a Fujitsu 60GB hard drive, while the optical drive is a Teac DVD/CD-RW combo drive.

The 15.1in TFT screen is crisp and clear, with a native resolution of 1,400 x 1,050. The model we saw also came with a video camera embedded in the top of the screen lid. The keyboard is well built, firm and positioned far enough up the chassis to make typing easy and comfortable. The trackpad works well, as do the two mouse buttons and the scroll pad.

Contact: AJP
www.ajp.co.uk

Specifications:

• 2.8GHz P4
• 512MB of DDR memory
• 60GB hard disk
• DVD/CD-RW
• Modem
• 10/100 Ethernet
• ATI Mobility Radeon 9000
• 15.1in TFT
• Bluetooth
• 329 x 275 x 36.5mm (w x d x h)