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As a young entrepreneur just getting started with an onsite computer repair business a new laptop was to be my first business tool purchase. I would need a portable for such things as keeping a repair database of completed service, printing receipts onsite at the time of work completion, and keeping track of appointments for more jobs to come.
I chose the Sharp Actius AL27 for my business because it excelled in the features I felt that I needed. These features include: Sufficient hard drive capacity, easy to use keyboard, high performance processor, and an ample amount of memory. Other great features of the AL27 include a super bright LCD (dubbed Double Bright by Sharp) and a technology called DirectHD that allows you to connect to another PC using an included USB cable, which allows the Actius AL27 to act as an external USB hard drive. This makes File transfer between two PCs is as simple as dragging and dropping.
Appearance and Notebook Construction
First things first on design, the color: it's white! The stark whiteness is the first thing you'll recognize about this laptop and initially I didn't like it much at all. It's very bright appearance at first made me think the construction might be cheap and lacking in durability. But once you get your hands on the Actius AL27 it's a different story. The base is exceptionally well-built; it has what seems to be a very thick gloss coating over the entire notebook. The buttons for the touchpad have a chromed look to them. I'm a little concerned that over time this chrome finish may wear off, but only time will tell for such a thing. Since you are able to enable tapping on the touchpad as a mouse clicking action, I rarely use the mouse buttons so I won't have to worry about such things. The power button has a blue LED that fades in and out when you turn the computer on and off, this is a great futuristic type of effect. The notebook lid which acts as the cover for the back of the LCD seems a bit thin. If you push on the back with the screen turned on you can get a lot of ripple effect and screen color changing. My fear is that a good smack on the back of the LCD could prove fatal. However, concerns aside, the overall design of the laptop is very clean, sophisticated and modern to what might even be called futuristic looking.
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