As we mentioned in our first review of Killer Notebooks Executioner laptop we place great emphisis on value as well as customer service when making a purchase. It should be noted that we feel that this system provides excellent value as well as consistent Killer Notebooks good customer service. If you should ever have any questions regarding one of their systems, KillerNotebooks make it their point to promptly answer any questions you may have regarding your notebook. We have had excellent communication with Killer Notebooks and all questions were answered quickly and to our satisfaction. The Assassin came with personalized service, hardware tweaking, and even going the extra mile to try and eliminate any amount of heat that can be dissipated through the addition of extra heatsinks as well as surface preparation with Artic Silver 5 thermal compound and lapping of the heat absorbing interfaces for better heat dissipation (you will not find thermal tape in these notebooks). Laptop protection is offered through www.safeware.com without markups, and they stand by their warranties. Hard drives used in the notebooks builds are true retail hard drives with 3 and 5 year warranties on them (no OEM hard drives here).

Aside from Killer Notebooks as a company, lets check out the specifications of this system:

Technical Specifications:
Our system came with the following:

Operating System:
Microsoft Windows XP Professional

Processor:
AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile @ TL-60 2.0 Ghz

Chipset:
nVidia nForce-4 SLI (CK804)

Memory:
2 GB DDR2-667 Dual Channel Memory

Graphics:
Dual nVidia Quadro FX 2500M 512Mb

Display:
20" WSXGA+ 1680 x 1050 (16:10) Super Clear LCD 290-nits brightness (viewable in direct sunlight)

Storage:
Two 100 GB 7200 rpm SATA Hard Drives in Raid-0, nVidia stripe

Networking:
10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet LAN (Gigabit)

Wireless Networking:
A/B/G+; 108 MBps Built-In Internal Wireless Network

Optical Drive:
Internal Dual Layer CD & DVD-RW Burner

Audio:
AC'97 Sound System with SRS WOW support;
4 Channel output; 4 built-in speakers with 1 sub-woofer (5 total)

Web Cam:
Built-in 1.3 MegaPixel Web Camera

Keyboard:
Full size keyboard with separate numeric keypad

Touchpad:
Full size touchpad with scroll functionality

Battery:
12-cell Li-Ion pack 6600Mah

Dimensions:
Width: 17.4"
Depth: 12.5"
Height: 1.8"

Peripheral Connections:
Type II PCMCIA slot
7-in-1 Card Reader
DVI video-out port
TV-Out port

TV-In port w/ TV Tuner Module Only
5 x USB 2.0 ports
IEEE1394 port
Mic-in Port
Headphones-out port
S/PDIF port
Modem port

Hot Keys:
Four instant launch keys for e-mail, internet, bluetooth and integrated webcam.

Weight:
11 Lbs.

Adapter Connectors Included:
One S-Video/Composite 'Y' cable

One S-Video to HDTV Cable

Carrying Case:
Large Backpack style case that easily fits the 20" Notebook

It is worth noting that at this time the Assassin is not offered in an Intel Core 2 Duo flavor. This is unfortunate as the Core 2 Duo is the current king in the mobile department and would have provided even greater performance. The numbers of this laptop ,however, are not to be taken lightly as you will see shortly. We were pleasantly surprised to see the Assassin come in at 11lbs which is fairly light especially for a 20 inch notebook.