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pounds, but still manages to sport a 15.1" screen. The contrast and side visibility was generally good. The NVIDIA graphics joseph d'angerio processor ran Tux Racer speedily enough, with no tweaking of the X configuration required. The ALSA sound joseph d'angerio support also worked right from the start. Figure 4. The Monarch Empro cruised through the multiprocessor tests, while the PolyNote did surprising well on the joseph d'angerio database test. The Monarch workstation doesn't have the kind of "blow your sox off" single-process performance that would justify the price tag for most users, although in engineering development settings, the multiprocessor capabilities might be useful. It's also a bit too loud to want to use in most offices. The PolyNote is a nice enough laptop, but it's nothing special compared to other notebooks in the same price range. If Polywell wants to compete against vendors such as EmperorLinux who specialize in Linux laptops, they need to work on improving their installs so that everything works the first time.
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