This machine covers all the basics--attractive black and silver case, good keyboard, 15.4-inch wide screen (with BrightView option), and reasonable 6.7-pound weight (without AC adapter, power cord, and optical drive)--plus it acts as a stand-alone DVD and CD player. Movies looked good on the 1280-by-800-pixel wide-aspect screen. The Linux program for playing CDs without booting Windows isn't fancy, but at least it's easy to use.



Link: PC World