http://www.eurocom.com
$1,500
By: Chris Angelini
We recently published a roundup of high-end gaming laptops, for which whitebox vendor Eurocom submitted its first Centrino 2 design powered by a Core 2 Extreme and a GeForce 9800M GT GPU. It wasn’t even close to the top of our performance benchmarks, since two of the competitors boasted SLI. But the laptop still served up what we considered to be remarkable performance given its small size and modest spec sheet.
As a result, we were curious when the company offered up its L390T Uno, which is basically a Centrino 2-based platform in a desktop form factor. While it’s certainly not a gaming machine, we were expecting this thing to be a speed demon in productivity applications, since it mixes the best of desktop and mobile technologies.
Eurocom offers the Uno with a long list of compatible mobile processors, but it chose to build our test mule with a 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 CPU operating on a 1,066 MHz front side bus and 3 MB of Smart Cache. The 45 nm chip is perfect for this sort of application. It only dissipates 35 W of power, yet is still muscular enough to slice through modern applications running on Microsoft’s resource hog of an operating system. To that end, Eurocom armed the pictured sample with 4 GB of DDR2-800 memory. But it’s worth noting that the chipset will take up to 8 GB—a configuration Eurocom sells. While you can also buy the Uno with 2 GB, stick to at least 4 GB.
Despite its size, the Uno actually accommodates two 2.5” hard drives. Ours came with a 500 GB 5,400 RPM model, but there are also 7,200 RPM drives in Eurocom’s list, as well as a number of different SSDs. Some of the little system’s other options include Turbo Memory, an internal TV tuner, external storage, a Blu-ray drive, wireless networking, and biometric security.
Two of the things you cannot change about the L390T are its display and graphics processor. Defined by its form factor, the system is tied to a 19” LCD panel with a maximum resolution of 1440x900. Driving the screen is Intel’s integrated GMA X4500 engine, a DirectX 10 core that, as we recently saw from our GeForce 9300 review won’t do much for enthusiastic gamers.
Nevertheless, at $1,500 we can’t help but think that the Uno makes for a great space-saving workstation in a dorm room or home office. It’s basically a notebook with a 19” screen, after all.
- Introduction
- Dell 3008WFP Ultrasharp 30"
- APC BACK-UPS 10 Outlet ES BE750G
- Netgear ReadyNAS Duo 500
- Falcon Northwest FragBox QuadFire
- Syspine Digital Operator System
- Logitech Indoor Video Security System
- Sennheiser HD515 G4ME Headphones
- Seagate FreeAgent Go 500 GB w/ Docking Station
- Eurocom L390T LCD Desktop
- BenQ CP270 XGA DLP Projector
- Thecus M3800 Media Storage and Playback Device

, we can’t think of any computer user who wouldn’t be thrilled to get one.
Gamers. The 8ms response time is a little on the slow side.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Visual_Interface
8 mills is just to slow.And Leigon thanks for the heads up.
I do hope the new items to come are more interesting than this first round.
Oh really? Come on pal, let's see some pictures of your wife/girlfriend so we can compare. Well, assuming you have one of course.
As for this particular Dell 3008WFP Ultrasharp 30", I have really no idea if it's suitable for movies and gaming or not. However, is Chris says it is, it's usually enough for me! Unfortunately, I just bought a Samsung T220 and it pleases me enough. Anyway, I do not have 2 grand to put on a monitor... yet.
While not the "perfect" monitor, it's definitely one of the best (if not the best) 22 inches monitor around. The colors are rich and true, the contrast is sharp and I haven't notice any lag at all, although I only play World of Warcraft and watch some Divx. Still, the difference was amazing when I switched my old Philips 19" with it! I'm pretty sure the same quality would apply on a fast-paced FPS or a Blu-Ray HD movie. However, I would recommend the T240 if you intend to use your monitor to watch full HD content. Samsung also offer the same models with HD at the end (T220HD) which has a integrated tuner, if you're into that stuff.
Santa Baby, a 30" Samsung TFT too, dark grey with a blond elf. I've been an awfully good girl.