Time Traveller P4-2400+VQ Professional

Stunning Pentium 4 performance with lots of connectivity.

Price: £1286

Manufacturer: Time

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Pros:
Very fast performance
Good value

Cons:
Dismal battery life
Minimal graphics performance

Overall:
Time has taken a fairly crude approach, jamming in an awful lot of connectivity and this notebook achieves stunning performance. It is far from perfect, but it is well worth considering at this price.

Leo Waldock, Personal Computer World 20 Nov 2002

The Time Traveller p4-2400+VQ Professional has a 2.4GHz processor and 512MB of DDR system memory, and is a flyer.

On the downside, the underside of the chassis and the external power supply get very warm to the touch, and the exhaust from the heatsink is warm too. The cooling fan is quite noisy, and the battery life is incredibly poor at one hour, four minutes.

On the plus side, this notebook is very cheap, at £1,286 inc VAT. You get quite a lot for your cash besides the raw performance - that's mainly down to the SIS 650 chipset, which has loads of integrated features.

This is a professional model notebook, despite running Windows XP Home, and so has plenty of ports. It has a modem, 10/100 Lan and infrared, as well as Firewire and four USB ports. There are also TV-out, VGA and printer ports as well as a single PC Card slot.

The ports are arranged a little haphazardly, but they're all present and correct which is frankly more important.

There is no floppy drive, which is a minor inconvenience, and Time has not supplied an external USB drive. The combo drive is slot-loading, which is unusual.

The 14in screen is quite bright and looks good but has a narrow viewing angle. The keyboard is also good, but nothing special. We were, however, quite happy with the touchpad and thought the mouse and scroll buttons were decent too.

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