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Micro Express Micro Express JFL9290

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Very Good

  • Pros
  • Record-breaking speed
  • Good screen
  • Cons
  • No FireWire port
  • Poorly written manual

Micro Express JFL9290 All-Purpose Laptop Review

- Did you catch that blur? That's the Micro Express JFL9290 speeding by. Like most Micro Express notebooks we've seen, it wouldn't win many beauty pageants. No prizes for its user manual, audio quality, or lame shortcut buttons either. But this Windows Vista Business laptop burned through our WorldBench 6 performance tests like a bat out of hell. In fact, it's one of the fastest laptops we've tested to date.

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