This laptop is perfect for not only business but great as a powerful home laptop. As I run my own business from home, it has great performance and is a brilliant speed with Vista Business included. Battery life is much better than I've ever experienced with a laptop of this size.
My only concern is that in order to get great battery life, you lose the benefits of having the bright screen, which when connected to the power supply, is one of the laptop's best qualities.
Anyone looking for a laptop more suited for gaming should avoid this model, as I've found that although the built-in graphics card can keep up, the processor seems to struggle. But as HP have marketed this to a business audience I hardly see this as a problem.
My main concern would be that upgrading may be essential if looking to upgrade to Windows 7 when it comes about. Also it is quite a large laptop, the 17" screen may not be, but the laptop isn't the most portable.
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(+) cool and quite robust trackpad, good display,64-bit windows 7 (-) few connectors,dell drivers only, not realy for gameing (most models), finger print prone!
Jul 6th, 2009
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