Roku N1100 HD Media Player – Overview, Pics, and Customer Reviews

Customer Questions and Answers:
Is this laptop a good deal
I want to know if its good for watching DVDS downloading songs playing the odd few games like Championship manager 2007 also willl flight simulator X work on this i know its a game which demands! Also are the shared 224mb graphics card good

Brand ACER
Processor Intel Celeron Mobile
Processor model number 420
Processor speed 1.6 GHz
Processor bus 533 MHz
Processor cache 1 MB
Memory (RAM) 1024 MB
Storage (hard drive) 60 GB
SATA storage Not featured
Screen size 15.4 inches
Screen type Bright widescreen
Built-in wireless networking Yes
Wired networking Yes
Gigabit LAN Not featured
Optical drive Plays & records CDs and DVDs
Lightscribe technology Not featured
Operating system Windows XP Media Center
Application software Not featured
Shared graphics 224MB
Dynamic graphics Not featured
Dedicated graphics Not featured
USB 2.0 slots 4
Firewire Not featured
Speakers Stereobuilt-in
Battery life (maximum) 2:00 hours

“Shared graphics 224MB ” doesn’t actually mean anything it doesn’t tell us what make/model the gfx card actually is so it’s impossible to make a call on it’s game playing ability. The fact that it’s using shared memory is a bad idea straight off the bat though it means the machine doesn’t actually have 1GB of RAM because the gfx card is ‘stealing’ a chunk of the RAM to use for itself. If you really must play games on a laptop and it’s a bad idea in general because only the most expensive laptops are any good for games then you need one that’s got a proper branded (i.e. nVidia or ATI) card that’s got it’s own onboard RAM and doesn’t share memory with the system.