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Laptop Reviews – 2007

HP Pavilion tx1000z series laptop

This new ultra portable and lightweight tablet PC (only 3.95 lbs), the HP Pavilion tx1000z, is a powerful machine powered by AMD Turion 64 X2 processor. It has a high-definition, 12.1-inch BrightView Convertible display that can be rotated horizontally and folded flat for the convenience of use. The optional touchscreen converts your laptop into a tablet PC.

Here are the specifications of the HP tx1000z:

  • AMD Turion 64 X2 Dual Core Mobile processor @ 1.6Ghz
  • 1024MB DDR2
  • 12.1″ WXGA High-Definition HP BrightView Widescreen Display (1280×800)
  • 120GB (5400 RPM) SATA Hard Drive
  • Nvidia GeForce Go 6150 graphics
  • 802.11 a/b/g wi-fi
  • Windows Vista OS

Here’s the overview of other prominent features of HP Pavilion tx1000z:

Versatile, convertible 12.1-inch display
The high-definition Widescreen display (1280×800) can fit a lot of information, but at the same time won’t strain your eyes. It can be rotated 180 degrees and folded flat, which in combination with the optional touchscreen will transform your laptop into a full fledged tablet PC. The HP software allows for making handwritten notes with a stylus on the computer screen, and then translating them to text.

Dual-core AMD processor
The tx1000z is equipped with powerful AMD Turion 64 X2 dual-core processor with Hyper Transport technology and reduced power consumption for longer battery life.

Fingerprint security (optional)
HP Pavilion tx1000z can come with this optional feature that allows for easy user authentication and protecting your user data. It allows for easy logging in to your tx1000z and password-protecting your documents.

Hard disk drive
The default hard drive of the tx1000z can be upgraded to a faster 200 Gb running at 7200 RPM which will give you plenty of space for storing photos, videos and music. Besides that, there’s a CD/DVD burner with optional HP Light Scribe, which allows for making your own CD labels.

Wide range of wireless options
HP Pavilion tx1000z comes with 802.11a/b/g wireless LAN support which assures you can pretty much to any wireless network at a maximum supported speed.

Video chat
Thanks to the 1.3 Megapixel webcam and two microphones, You can use all modern VOIP applications and always stay in touch with family and friends.

Numerous ports
The tx1000z comes with three USB 2.0 ports, an ExpressCard/34 slot, a VGA port for an external monitor, and 5-in-1 digital media card reader.

Toshiba Satellite P205-S6287

The Toshiba Satellite P205-S6287 is a 17-inch laptop that can work as a desktop replacement with good performance and a number of attractive features for its price. Built from a very competitive set of top-notch components, the Toshiba P205 will be good for listening to music, watching HD videos, playing games, browsing the internet and doing other tasks. The P205 is built on the latest Intel Santa Rosa platform to provide you with good performance and has a capacitive 200 GB hard drive to store all your video files, music and photos. It has a beautiful 17-inch wide screen glossy display and a comfortable full-sized keyboard.

Toshiba Satellite P205 features:

  • Intel Core 2 Duo T5300 (1.73 GHz/2MB L2 Cache) CPU
  • 2GB DDR2 SDRAM
  • Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 video card with up to 256MB shared memory
  • 200 GB SATA Hard Drive
  • 17.0-inch WXGA+ TruBrite display with a native resolution of 1,440×900 pixels
  • Intel 4965AGN 802.11a/g/n wifi
  • Integrated webcam
  • Mini-FireWire port
  • Multiformat card reader
  • Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium

Acer Aspire 9300-5005 Laptop

Can $1,000 purchase you a good quality laptop that could replace your desktop computer? Acer gives an affirmative answer to this question with their Aspire 9300-5005, a $949 17-inch widescreen laptop powered by Turion 64 X2 Mobile processor that is fast enough mid-range gaming and graphics tasks.

Measuring 15.7 x 11.6 x 1.2 inches, the Acer Aspire 9300-5005 weighs 8.1 pounds which makes it a not very convenient thing to carry around or take with you when you travel. If you’re looking for a replacement to a desktop PC, this Acer Aspire with its 17-inch screen might suit you really well. It is configured with a dual core 1.6-GHz AMD Turion 64 X2 processor, a Nvidia GeForce Go 7300 graphics card, 1GB of DDR2 RAM that can be expanded to 4GB, and a capacious 120GB, 5,400-rpm hard disk drive.

This machine demonstrated adequate results in benchmark analysis and scores 2,993 points on PCMark05 and 3,042 points in 3DMark03. Not a bad thing to get out of a laptop with low-level mobile processor. For less than $1,000, you’re getting a machine that runs smoothly and is capable of handling numerous applications at once. And though it may not be fast enough to run today’s challenging games and graphics applications, you will have no trouble using the Aspire 9300-5005 as a mid-level gaming computer. An integrated webcam will allow you to make video calls to your friends and family.

The Aspire 9300-5005 comes with Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium installed along with a number of Acer’s utilities for system management. It has a six-cell battery that should last you for 2+ hours, however in our tests it could only provide 79 minutes of running time for playing a video from the DVD drive.

Asus VX1 Lamborghini

You always might have wanted a Lamborghini, but can’t afford to buy one? Well here’s the chance to buy one for the price of a small car. Don’t be astonished its not a 500 bhp Italian super sports car but it is a Asus VX1 Lamborghini notebook.

The all new Asus notebook is available in two colors yellow and solid black which are same as used in Lamborghini super car. The notebook has the automotive styling cues with curvy top lid and exquisite Lamborghini logo. In place of roaring V12 under the bonnet of Asus, it has an Intel core 2 duo T7400 processor, revving at 2.16 GHz on an i945 chipset based motherboard.

The graphics are fueled by the powerful NVIDIA Go7400 video card, specially made for the latest generation game. Its 15inch display is capable of 1400×1050 resolution, with sharp display quality while watching movie or playing games. It has powerful inbuilt speaker phones but is low on bass. The keyboard gives you plenty of space to rest your wrists.

The standard equipment consists of a 160GB of hard drive and a DVD writer, with provisions for memory card reader that can read SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO formats, and also supports WLAN and Bluetooth. In addition to these it has PC card slot, multiple USB ports, a Firewire port, 56 kbps modem and a Gigabyte Ethernet; with 2GB of RAM it gives excellent overall performance. The laptop is sleek and slim and is one of the best build laptop is compact but a little heavy weighing 2.7 kg.

In all it is the cheapest Lamborghini you can afford.

Features:

  • Type: Media
  • Operating System: MS Windows XP Professional
  • Processor Name: Intel Core Duo T2500
  • Processor Speed: 2 GHz
  • RAM: 1 GB
  • Weight: 5.7 lb
  • Screen Size: 15 inches
  • Screen Size Type: standard
  • Graphics Card: nVidia GeForce Go 7400
  • Storage Capacity: 120 GB
  • Networking Options: 802.11a/g
  • Primary Optical Drive: DVD+R DL

The Dell XPS M2010 Notebook

The Dell XPS M2010 is Dell’s leading and feature reach next-generation notebook has a huge 20.1-inch adjustable monitor, a pop-out Bluetooth keyboard and starts at $3,500.

The XPS M2010 lets you watch videos or listen to music, play games, chat with friends online or watch television through an external TV Tuner – all of that at a speed of light. The display has full-HD 1080p resolution which makes great for watching high-definition movies.

The XPS M2010 has a webcam and speakers built into a monitor. The case measures 19.3 x 8.3 x 2 inches. It contains the CPU, a mainboard along with other notebook’s components, a subwoofer and an optical DVD drive. Closer to the cover there are the power and media buttons.

The Dell XPS M2010 has 2.16-GHz Intel Set Duo T2600 processor with 2GB of RAM. Its battery allows for 3 hours and 12 minutes of runtime which is simply great given a screen size of this machine. With Mobility Radeon X1800 graphics, equipped with 256MB of video RAM, the gameplay on XPS M2010 is really smooth. With all these great features, the XPS M2010 is truly a mobile entertainment center.

Asus Lamborghini VX2

Priced at US $3,300, Asus Lamborghini VX2 is significantly more expensive than most common laptops, and this is understandable why it’s priced like that. Besides its top-notch hardware, it has several high-end extras like a leather briefcase and a Bluetooth mouse.

The 15.4-inch widescreen display featuring Clear Shine technology by Asus makes watching videos a breathtaking experience, thanks to super wide viewing angles that the screen provides and the high contrast and brightness coating. The display has an impressive 1,680 x 1,050 pixels resolution which results in more space for applications and icons on your desktop. The graphics chipset is the high-end Nvidia GeForce Go 7700 with 512MB of fast integrated memory, which is one of the fastest graphics cards on market these days.

There’s an 1.3 megapixel webcam mounted on top of a display, that can swivel in all directions, so you have video chats without a need to carry an external camera around with you. The integrated speakers have a good amount of volume, but should you decide to listen to music in headphones, the Digital HD Audio chip of Asus Lamborghini VX2 won’t leave you disappointed.

Let us quickly go through the features and specs of the Asus Lamborghini VX2 laptop.

  • CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo (2.16 Mhz)
  • RAM: 2GB DDR2 at 667 Mhz
  • Graphics card: Nvidia GeForce Go 7700, 512 Mb
  • HDD: 160Gb
  • Webcam
  • Gigabit ethernet
  • Bluetooth
  • Wi-fi
  • Windows Vista Ultimate

Gateway MT6451 laptop

The Gateway MT6451 is a new addition to Gateway’s entry level series laptop line.

It seems obvious that you can’t expect miracles from an entry-level laptop. Although it has a dual-core AMD Turion processor, in other aspects it can not be described as a productive machine.

This laptop comes with Windows Vista installed which was actually not a very good move since it can not run smoothly on this hardware. You either have to upgrade your laptop right out of the box (adding more RAM and replacing the slow 4500 RPM hard drive is highly recommended) or downgrade your OS to Windows XP. The fact that a video card eats up to 256mb out of your system memory certainly does not provide for better performance.

Here are the specs of the Gateway MT6451 laptop:

  • AMD Turion 64 X2 Mobile Technology 1.6GHz CPU
  • 1GB DDR2 667MHz Dual Channel RAM with no extra slots available
  • ATI Radeon Xpress 1150M graphics card with up to 256 MB of shared system memory
  • 120 Gb PATA 4500RPM hard disk drive
  • 15.4-inch Ultrabright WXGA display with a resolution of 1280×800
  • 8X Multi-format double layer DVD/RW
  • 10/100 Mbit Ethernet
  • Wireless LAN 802.11g
  • 6-in-1 card reader
  • 4 USB 2.0 ports, S-Video port, VGA port
  • Windows Vista Home Premium

Dell Inspiron 1520

The Dell Inspiron 1520 laptop that we are going to review today is the newest 15.4-inch machine that is targeted to mainstream laptop users. The new Inspiron was presented by Dell’s Home Office division as a successor of earlier 6400 series, that can easily help you with all your office tasks and even light multimedia apps.

To those who plan on getting a gaming laptop Dell offers a number of configuration modifications that can dramatically improve the performance of your Inspiron 1520. You can get a 2.2 GHz Core 2 Duo CPU, 4 GB RAM and a more powerful Nvidia Geforce 8600M GT (256MB) video card.

Specification of Dell Inspiron 1520’s base configuration:

  • Core 2 Duo T5450 CPU with 1.66 GHz
  • NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GT Graphics card
  • 2.0GB DDR2 SDRAM @667 MHz
  • 160 GB SATA HDD, 5400RPM
  • Intel 4965AGN WLAN
  • Firewire port
  • Screen: 15.4-inch WSXGA (1680×1050)
  • Battery: 9-cell lithium-ion (85 Wh)
  • Microsoft Vista Home Premium
  • Weight: 6.4 lbs