Loving my new CF-52

I've had it for about a month now and really impressed by its speed and quality. I was worried semi-rugged might mean sort-of-rugged but it is very well made and oozes quality.

The ATI card even surprised me as the reviews I had read placed it around an ATIx300 or Nvidia7100. I'd say Its much, much better with a score of 14000 in 3Dmark01 and 4000 in 3dmark03. It plays Oblivion in medium settings and
Battlefield 2142 in medium settings and X3 reunion on full in full resolution.

The fan is silent until you play a game, then it becomes barely audible. The exhaust is warm/hot but all surfaces remain cool to the touch which is strange. I wonder if it has
a heat pipe like the CF-28 does? Battery life is as advertised by panasonic so good on them. I'd say 4:00 sippin juice and 1:00 gaming while encoding a DVD but easily 3:00 watching a movie.

I installed CPUID HMonitor and you get HDD temp both core temps, GPU temp and another Chipset? temp. also under the DMI veiwer you can see the battery temp as well as recharges and exceeded Environment temps. It also has a hour meter.

Well i don't want to sound like a fanboy so lets see....
oh yeah I installed 4 gigs of corsair Ram but windows pro only detected 3.25Gigs even under Vista Bussiness. Oh yes it it came with BOTH operating systems.!!

My only other complaint is that it doesnt have a built in webcam. Thats It. Oh one more...theres no need to hack it up into pieces and replace antennas and add USB and bluetooth. Sorry one more.. It was so bloody expensive I can't bring myself to treat it like a Toughbook ought to be treated. that is I don't know if I'll use it in the rain and snow and sand like my last CF-28.

 

Congratulations on your new toy.... You'll be hacking it to pieces in no time!