Sharp Actius MP30

alaTest has collected and analyzed 5 user reviews of Sharp Actius MP30 from Amazon.com. The average user rating for this product is 4.6/5, compared to an average user rating of 3.9/5 for other products in the same category on Amazon.com. Reviewers are impressed by the usability and performance. The portability and image quality are also appreciated.

Sharp's ultraportable Actius MP30 laptop weighs only 2.8 pounds, runs Transmeta's Efficieon 1.6 GHz processor, has a 10.4-inch screen, with 512MB RAM, a 40GB hard drive, and built-in 802.11g WiFi. PC Magazine finds the keyboard a little small (87...

This lightweight ultraportable looks like a toy but works like a business machine.

Photograph: Rick Rizner

Most multimedia-oriented notebooks these days are nine-pound beasts that aim to supplant a traditional desktop PC. Not so the Sharp Actius MP30. This svelte 2.8-pound beauty will have little trouble attracting attention with its cool, clean,...

Co-Published with Laptop Magazine: Solutions for Business & Life. As an everyday machine, the MP30 balances performance and battery life reasonably [...]

Many features crammed into a tiny footprint, excellent battery life, but I don't like the keyboard layout (keys actually vary in size) and the screen is as reflective as a mirror--hard to use in bright environments.

Excellent for E-mail, officework, web browsing, DVD watching. The hard drive feature is great.

Excellent screen--very light and fast enough to do office work and web exploration. Games run well too--not the very video intensive ones--check Radeon game compatability eg. Zoo Tycoon 2 would not run. Better to upgrade to 1GB RAM--Kingmax