As can be seen the picture quality is cineperfect having a resolution of 1366x768 which falls under the category of: Widescreen eXtended Graphics Array, however there is no pixelation in the image at all and is totally photorealistic.
In a small office based environment, coupled to a much smaller 4:3 format Samsung LCD display and Soundcraft Spirit Folio Notepad desktop mixer again results were more then impressive with the notebook being able to handle everything I threw at it while heavily multi tasking.
This actually was for my current home office setup comprising of the Hp 2230s and HiGrade Notino C2200 notebook which I use as my 'all round' development platform. This type of environment not only allows me to do specific administration tasks in terms of documentation and IT based administration meaning serial stty lines and remote telnet and SSH connections, but also a full blown set of operating system and software development and testing too. An example of this setup can be seen below:
Img2. Image taken on Nokia N95 cell phone and transferred over Bluetooth to Hp 2230s. Sysconfig=Kubuntu 9.04 running NFS v4 to file server over WLAN.
The 2230s also comes with a Dual Layer DVD +/ RW drive with Light Scribe capability. This is very good but considering that the much older Centrino CPU based HiGrade also has a DVD RW +/ drive I am wondering why a Blue Ray drive was not coupled to this system or why it isn't available as an option. It would definitely save me burning hundreds of DVD's to back up gigabytes of information, especially for server based small mail stores or user accounts.
The amount of provided external ports is also really good for a machine of this size. To start with 3 USB ports for connecting to external devices in comparison to my older notebook's 2. Also VGA and DVI ports. Not having used DVI before myself I will need to buy a cable for testing this with my Sony 40” display mentioned earlier as DVI has the ability to transmit both sound and video through the same connector. One ExpressCard and Secure Digital (SD) slot means that connecting the machine to modern devices is easy as PCMCIA technology seems to be getting phased out over this smaller and faster alternative. Of course the SD card is great for digital images captured on camera or as a very expensive backup solution when a USB memory stick is not handy.
The system also comes with a biometric finger print reader which if I recall correctly IBM started off with their acclaimed Think Pad series line of notebooks before running into financial difficulty and being rebranded as Lenovo. On the front of the system are the line in and line out connectors of which the quality of the line out connector has already been discussed.
That leaves us only with the networking capabilities of the system which again are nothing short of impressive; A Bluetooth 2.0 EDR
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