Appearance and features II
The back is home to another 2 USB2.0 ports, a HD15 connection to drive an external monitor, S-Video socket for TV-Out duties, a legacy parallel port, and the charger's inlet. Again, the image compression does the lovely Voodoo PC finish no favours at all.
A shot of the other side shows imperfections present in the pain finish. Voodoo PC is unable to completely paint the internal portion of the duct grill. We can see remnants of the initial white-ish finish coming through.
The Athlon 64 Model 3200+ CPU is cooled by a heatpipe design. The heat is pulled up towards the fan and expelled through a vent on the side. It makes implicit sense. The CPU is the first clue as to the laptop's performance potential. In a desktop environment the Athlon 64 3xxx line have shown excellent performance, especially in gaming-related benchmarks.
The Voodoo PC m:855 sat next to a Dell Inspiron 5150 with a Mobile 3.06GHz CPU. There's not much you can't engineer into power laptops now.
The charger is interesting in its own right. Supplied by FSP Group, it has a small in-built fan that spins up to a high-ish RPM. We're not surprised, though, as the PSU has a maximum rated output of 150w. Shuttle is experimenting with the same brick-like external PSUs for its latest iteration of SFF cubes.
