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Advantages: Ability to recover to initial factory settings, durable and easy to use
Disadvantages: It comes with windows vista

I bought a HP Compaq Buisness Notebook 6720 (GR647EA) from a HP partner two months ago. He gave me the Laptop without the recovery discs. I found it strange because the laptops I had used came with discs. I requested for them and he informed me that it has inbuilt back up and recovery. For two reasons - wrong configuration of keyboard and download of an update incompatible with microsoft office - I had to perform full system recovery twice. Each ...
...not miss a thing. This thrilled me because the last laptop (a different brand) I used, the full factory image/settings was not recovered when I had to format it. It came with a trial version of microsoft office 2007 (I did not need to buy MS office for a while), a sixty subscription of Norton Virus and windows vista which can be a nuisance. But I understand that one can request for a downgrade to windows XP professional. ... Read review

Advantages: Great features, great performance
Disadvantages: USB slot positioned to close to the CD drive, sensitive hot keys

Personally owning an Acer 5920 is something special. First of all the customer support and acer technology did not leave me disapointed. Definitely a laptop you would not be embarassed to pull out at work or on the train. It looks modern. The opening mechanisms resembles that of a car and is very easy to use. Feature wise the acer does not disappoint with a camera , webcam , movie maker and much more. This makes it the perfect choice for your everyday ... Read review

Advantages: Ultra portable, lightweight
Disadvantages: Small processor and keyboard

Review of Asus Eee PC 900 Laptop computer. As some of my Ciao acquaintances are aware I am currently travelling in the UK with my partner. We are both writers, a long term hobby, which has now become our income as freelancers. A laptop computer has been our trusty companion for some time, however as there are occasions when we both need to be using the machine, we decided to purchase a second laptop to make life a little easier. There is nothing ...
...The laptop we purchased the ASUS Eee PC 900 had the 'What Laptop' magazine gold award, having rated 8 out of a possible 10 in the May 2008 issue test reports section. It was purchased from PC World in Newcastle upon Tyne for £199.99. **The laptop** The Asus Eee PC 900 is classed as a entry level ultra mobile laptop and around the same size of a hard back novel, it most certainly is ultra mobile! It weighs a minuscule 940g and the overall dimensions ... Read review

Advantages: hard drive with flash memory, gr8 looks,speed of processor, 2 gb ram and win vista
Disadvantages: price is high , battery only last for 3hr, weight is up to 3 kg

...good, looks is great as sony vaio is popular for looks. with the dvd rw and flash hard drive this product best suits for manager and those run their business on the run. win vista work best in vaio at this configuration. LAPTOP performance vary to professional to professional , if you are manager or student , those work for hour and hour for presentation . so at this configuration yo will rum Microsoft office 2007 . can make presentation any time ...
...movie hall etc. Sony VAIO NR21J/S - Pentium Dual Core T2330 / 1.6 GHz - RAM 2 GB - HDD 200 GB - DVD±RW (±R DL) / DVD- RAM - GMA X3100 Dynamic Video Memory Technology 4.0 - WLAN : 802.11b /g - Vista Home Premium - 15.4" Widescreen TFT 1280 x 800 ( WXGA ) X-blac * Processor - Intel 1.6GHz Pentium Dual Core T2330 * Memory - 2GB DDR II SDRAM * Hard Drive - 200GB * Display - 15.4in TFT active matrix 1280 x 800 * Optical Drive - DVD±RW (±R DL) / DVD- ... Read review

Advantages: Compact & Style
Disadvantages: Less Speed, No Varieties & Models

System provided only 1 GB and it occupies space quickly and result in hanging and slow in action. The style is not much compared other models. Aesthetic is also not in line with better model. The Brand Name is very good and technical parameters very nice. Battery run time may be given higher level. Rates are not competitive. DVD provision is very good and i have also collected from my friends also product life is satisfactory but they cannot installed ... Read review