Click on the items below to shop, compare and buy. Cons Limited expansion. The innovative design and one or two good features are spoiled by an overall lack of balance in the feature set. The Toshiba Equium 7100S con centrates on offering good maintenance and trouble-shooting facilities, but it s low on features considering the elevated price.
Security is provided by a padlock loop rendering the case lockable.
There s a password-protected secure sleep mode and the system can be further protected with user or supervisor boot password options. The NLX motherboard has two DIMM sockets, restricting memory upgrades to 256MB, and the riser card provides one free PCI slot sharing an expansion blanking plate with the single ISA slot. Also inside are a Crystal CS4235 FM sound chip and an integrated 2MB ATI Rage Pro AGP2x graphics chipset, which drives a Toshiba Tekbright 500V monitor. Our tests revealed poor graphics performance, due to a conservative driver revision. Nevertheless, the Toshiba Equium 7100S is very difficult to recommend given its complete lack of outstanding features.