The NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600 includes 256MB of RAM and is currently classified by NVIDIA as a Performance and Multimedia graphics processor (as opposed to an 'Enthusiast' graphics processor like the GeForce Go 7950 GTX)
As tested our system had a 100GB 7200RPM Hitachi HTS721010G9SA00 hard drive with buffer cache size of 8MB and an average seek time of 10ms.
The Area-51 m5550i as tested included a pair Samsung branded 1 GB 667MHz DDR2 memory modules.
An Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG PCI-E mini card pprovides WiFi.
Mobile power is what road warriors crave. In addition to the standard 6 cell Li-Ion (10.8 V, 4400 mAh) there is also an optional 9 cell (10.8 V, 6600 mAh). Unfortunately it's an either/or proposition meaning unlike HP's notebooks you can't plug the extend
With the optional 6600 mAh extended battery plugged in, the battery module sticks out a little beyond the notebook chassis.
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