Iridium Starbook 865

Indie Magazine (September '03)

Top-level laptop specifications, as with their desktop cousins, don’t stand still for very long – not so long ago a laptop such as this would have seemed like pure fantasy. Weighing in with a hefty 3.06GHz processor, this latest Iridium offering is one of the most powerful notebooks we’ve ever seen at Indie.

Driven by a Mobile Intel Pentium 4 processor backed up by 512Mb of DDR RAM base memory (1GB upgrade) and 512k level 2 cache, the Starbook 865 can handle pretty much anything you’d care to throw at it. The 60GB hard drive capacity isn’t bad for a laptop, and both a floppy drive and DVD/CDRW combo drive come as standard. Graphics are powered by a 64MB ATI Radeon Mobility 9000 and shown on a 15” screen, and the whole thing comes Bluetooth enabled out of the box. In terms of portability it’s not the lightest laptop on the market by a fair way, but for sheer power, this one is pretty hard to beat.