Hypersonic Avenger AG2

Hypersonic Avenger AG2
Speedy thin-and-light offers por battery life

THE LIGHTWEIGHT HYPERSONIC AVENGER AG2 is one of the most poweful notebooks in the thin-and-light class, but poor battery life holds it back from portable computing glory.
Available in five different colors-black,blue-pink,white, and yellow-the AG2 weighs 4.1 pounds and features a glossy 12.1-inch wide-screen TFT. That's a decent-size display, but we wish Hypersonic had opted for a roomier 13.3-inch model, instead. (The same goes for the system's cramped keyboard.)
That said, the 1,280x800-resolution screen does a nice job with movies, and its viewing angle is excellent, though its gloss coating causes glare. The AG2 comes with a built-in Webcam and a pretty standard array of wired and wireless connections, though it lacks an HDMI port.
The Avenger AG2 starts at a midrange price of $1,239; our $1,599 test unit came packed with a speedy 2.5GHz Core 2 Duo T9300 processor, 4GB of RAM, and a 200GB hard drive spinning at a desktop-caliber 7,200rpm. The system's Intel GMA X3100 integrated graphics are its weakest component. Accordingly, while the AG5 didn't perform well on our gaming tests, its other parts came happily together to produce some of the best productivity and multimedia benchmark results we've seen from a thin-and-light.
Battery life is the system's bigest drawback: Its four-cell battery lasted just 1 hour and 5 minutes in our DVD-rundown test, putting it dead last for its class.
-Shane McGlaun
source: Computer Shopper September 2008.


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