Toshiba NB550D sold in the market at a price range of $ 390. In terms of physical appearance, NB550D similar to other notebooks. This notebook is a 'duplicate' of the NB520 using intel atom processor. Although similar in terms of features, such as a 10.1 "with 1024 x 600 and speaker harman / kardon, but for 'otak'nya use APU (Accelerated Processing Unit) AMD Fusion.
The platform combines multi-core CPU and GPU into a single chip called the APU, not the processor. One advantage of this platform is a discreet class GPU it uses, namely the AMD Radeon 6000 series, whose power far exceeds the atomic notebook GPUs onboard. It can be said that this product is a notebook with notebook performance. This notebook is available in 4 colors ie brown, green, orange, and blue, each color has a dotted texture that attracts attention.
On the right side of this notebook are 2 USB 2.0 ports. The left side is the charger port, LAN, HDMI out, 1 USB 2.0 Sleep n charge that can be used to recharge your smartphone or other mobile devices even if the notebook is off, the mic port also serves as an audio input sleep n music (for listening to music from iPods through a speaker harman / kardon, also without the need to turn on the notebook), and audio out ports. At the bottom of the front there is an SD card reader ports. At the top there is a keyboard that uses a notebook with a maximum width.


Then the keyboard is big enough on its QWERTY section so that it can reduce typing errors. The keyboard is quite soft so it does not require extra power to push and comfortable to use in long duration. Notebook keyboard is not equipped with a silencer system so it sounds noisy when used for typing at high speed. Another disadvantage is the position of speaker harman / kardon who are in a position handrest, among multitouch trackpad, not above the keyboard. So when used for typing while listening to music, high-quality sound out of the speakers was silenced by the palms of people typing. The solution is maintained so that your palms are not relying on the impact handrest make people type in the shoulder feels stiff even though a new type for 5 minutes.
APU platform used by NB550D are Brazos, a combination of dual-core processor C-50 (1M cache, 1.0GHz) and AMD's Radeon HD 6250 256MB RAM which also eat up to 118MB if needed. For the size of the notebook, capable of superior performance NB550D the gaming aspect. In the highest graphics setting, FRAPS frame rate detect NFS underground in a resolution of 800 x 600 up and down between 25-40 fps, and stabilized around 30 fps. When all the graphical features turned off, the frame rate up from 40-62 fps, and stabilized at around 50 fps. When played PES (Pro Evolution Soccer) for the trials, PES was very playable with frame rates between 30 to 60 fps and stable in the range of 45 fps. This notebook uses the operating system Windows 7 (Starter Edition). Startup applications sometimes take a long time, between a matter of seconds to minutes. So to overcome this problem, you can turn off the visual effects setting windows 7 and upgrade its RAM (2GB maximum).

NB550D has HDMI out port. You can use this port to watch the movie or game a larger external screen. When the notebook is connected to monitor 22 "LG Flatron E2260V-PN, this notebook is capable of achieving optimal resolution of the monitor, which is 1920 x 1080. HD video with a resolution of between 720 and 1080 pixels can be displayed smoothly. However, the above resolution, NB550D somewhat difficult to render a frame by frame even though it is not found during testing done watching the same video file on any other notebook screens. 6 cell battery performance is also quite satisfactory. This notebook is able to survive 4jam for browsing with Wi-Fi is on, lighting a musical. Overall, this notebook's performance reminds us of the Asus Eee PC Lamborghini VX6, atom notebooks with GeForce GT218 GPU. The difference, if VX6 sold NB550D 7juta but this price is not much different from the usual Atom notebook. RAM capacity of its weaknesses need to be upgraded and a less than ideal speaker placement. Weighing from 1.32 kg.
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