PC World have published a review of the Micro Express NBL60 laptop. 'The laptop's performance is a little above average for its class (All-Purpose Laptops), posting a PC WorldBench 6 score of 123. This mark may seem low for a system with the NBL60's specs, but the laptop's use of switchable graphics may help explain it. The NBL60 has both Intel integrated graphics (to maximize battery life) and AMD's Mobility Radeon HD 5650 (for more-substantial graphics horsepower). As a result, however, nearly 1GB of the laptop's 4GB of system RAM is reserved for graphics. The NBL60 also manages to cram a full numeric keypad into the main body, though Micro Express had to make some sacrifices. For example, if you press the Numlock key, you lose access to the larger navigation keys, including PgDn and PgUp--both of which are very useful in editing spreadsheets.'
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