Advantages: Good BAttery Life
Disadvantages: easy to scratch

...The HP nc 4000 notebook is highly mobile and has a very good battery life, with the battery lasting over 3 hours on one train journey. The notebook runs xp and office applications with easy and can cope with PowerPoint presentations, but lacks the speed for anyone who may want to play games on it. There are 2 USB ports on the nc 4000 which is not really enough when one is taken up by a flash drive, the there is only one left. so if you wish to use an external keyboard and mouse both of these usb ports will be used as there is no PS2 port to plug them in. The lack of a optical drive can sometimes be a problem as not all programs install easily over a network. There is only one speaker on the notebook which does not produce the best sound, and can only be disabled if the sound is muted, as the headphone port is a line out... Read review

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Advantages: Small, Lightweight, Long Battery Life, Durability, Warrenty, Connectivity
Disadvantages: Have to connect a CD-ROM drive when you need it

...I've had my fair selection of laptops but none have come close to the performance of this little beast. Size I use my this at college everyday and it is perfect for what I need. The laptop is smaller than most of my textbooks and smaller than a piece of A4 paper so is perfect to fit in your back pack. Weight Not only is the laptop smaller than my textbooks its also a lot lighter! Saves having to carry around a mass of paperwork. Battery I have all the little extra's on the laptop and always use it on full brightness, realistic battery life is approx 2 hours under constant word processing. Batteries are easily swappable and easy to get hold off so if you do need longer it is readily availiable. Durability I do have a laptop case but in all honesty have only used it a handful of times, with this laptop being so small it will easily go... Read review

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Advantages: Excellent range of features, excellent speed/performance, good battery life
Disadvantages: Disappointed with reliability, extremely poor customer support

...I bought this laptop around April 2005 from PC World Business, at around 1000 GBP. It was delivered without a modem, although the specification did list a modem. After a month of adventures, and after exchanging three laptops, the third one arrived with a modem. HP refused to apologise, said they had told PC World not to sell that batch due to missing modems. Anyway, once I got one with a modem fitted, I was extremely pleased with the performance of the laptop, and the extras, including Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, IR, etc, etc. Those happy times lasted only until the display backlight failed a couple of months later. Thankfully, within warranty so the laptop was collected and the display replaced for free. However, just after the standard one-year warranty expired, the backlight (of the new display) failed again. Now I am using the laptop... Read review

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Advantages: Thin, light, rugged & stylish
Disadvantages: Poor wireless connection (often drops) slow mute button

...Anyone who knows me knows of my love/hate relationship with hewlett packard. So far I've owned four laptops from them and only paid for one. Each one has been a replacement of the last due to on going technical difficulties or problems. Being an IT proffesional I demand the highest quality of service with my equipment and make HP jump through hoops. To begin with, the laptop comes well packaged with an amazing array of CD's and DVD's. It comes pre-installed with windows XP proffessional (Which doesn't seem to require activation) and it runs smootly out of the box without the usual amount of rubbish HP installs on their products. But I'm not here to review software - The laptop itself feels like a quality bit of kit. I spend all day on my laptop, and so far I've not noticed any stress on the plastic, it's virtually silent & even... Read review

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Advantages: Incredibly slick, lightweight and robust. Toughened screen and powerful.
Disadvantages: Screen display is somewhat 'fiddly', compressed into 10". No extra casing protection.

...Over the past few months, I have been evaluating and rolling out tablet PC's across my organisation within the Health industry. My evaluation has covered the HP Compaq TC1100, the Motion M1200, the Fujitsu Stylistic ST4120, and the Toshiba Portégé 3500. What follows is a brief discussion of the HP TC1100 which I hope will give users some guidance and prove informative. The HP TC1100 is the most versatile tablet PC design overall. You can use it like a regular notebook with attached keyboard or fold the keyboard under to use it in tablet mode, what sets it apart from the rest however is that it can be totally detached from the keyboard. This was a very attractive proposition and makes for a very slick and streamlined tablet for the truly mobile user. This option makes the device a staggeringly lightweight (3.1 lb) slate. As a pure slate... Read review

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Advantages: portability
Disadvantages: price, amount of ram and hard drive

...One thing HP Compaq are good at is making great laptops for business people. This clearly shows in this laptop as it incorporates everything a business man would need in a laptop. This laptop clearly isn’t the best looking laptop iv ever seen, but its not ugly. Its all in one colour, black, which in this case doesn’t make it look so horrible due to its nice square shape structure. There are so many things wrong with this design, yet somehow I do really like it. The installed ram on this laptop is an average 1 gb. This is ok but could have been dramatically improved if it was a 2gb of ram. The ram can however be upgraded, and it can be upgraded to a maximum of 4 gb so if this is something you think you could do your self then you could easily buy cheap ram off eBay and install it yourself, however if you don’t know... Read review

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Advantages: Cheap Starter PC
Disadvantages: Poor build quality

...). The majority of problems that arise with 700's is that they are, or were 4/5 months ago, prone to overheating and crashing, however this is also covered under the warranty. In fact the majority of faults, excluding accidental damage, are covered by the warranty. Whats the warranty cover like? Well the manufacturers warranty is for 1 year from date of purchase, and covers mechanical defects, it does NOT cover accidental damage. The repairs are carried out by the ONLY authorised Compaq laptop repairer in the UK (so ignore PC World when they are authorised to repair Compaq laptops) and is on a pick up and return basis. That is Compaq will collect the laptop from you and return it to you free of charge, in the majority of cases the turnaround for repairs of laptops is 7 business days. To sum up I would only recommend this laptop to users who... Read review

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Advantages: Good battery life, easy to type,
Disadvantages: Quite heavy, tends to freeze up.

...It seems that other Ciao users have had poor experiences with the Compaq NX9020, but i decided to wait until i'd used it for a while before throwing my hat into the ring. I bought the laptop on Ebay for around 180 pounds a year ago, as it has been discontinued this is the most likely place to pick one up, i just wanted something for internet access, music downloading, university work and taking it into Lectures It has a 1.4 GHz processor with a 60 GB hard drive and 256M RAM, DVD-RW drive, TouchPad mouse and 2 USB ports, and runs on Windows XP. I've found the laptop very suitable for my needs, it runs DVDs well, has excellent quality sound and runs multiple windows with ease, however if several memory-heavy programs are running simultaneously it can slow down or freeze altogether. Battery life was originally around 90 minutes, but i... Read review

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Advantages: Fast for a Compaq laptop, not bad price, nice size hd
Disadvantages: bit ugly, not very light for carrying around, quite large

...Compaq may not make the most desirable looking laptops, and this most certainly isn't going to make you fall in love with it, but I do like this laptop which I got a while ago for only £700! with 1.4Ghz P4-M, quite fast for a Compaq laptop, and a nice graphics card (mine came with a 128mb radeon gfx card) games and applications run nice and fast on this laptop What drew me to this was the 30 gig hard drive also, a definate bonus for my work, especially at this price. The main problem I have found though is the bulk of the laptop. It is very wide and heavy, not the idea for carrying around. I would probably have not bought the laptop if I had known I was going to carry it around a lot. The laptop comes with the usual software packages, windows XP home ed., MS Office applications, Windows Media player etc. There were not many extras... Read review

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Advantages: Quality keyboard, nice finish
Disadvantages: Unreliable, poor customer service, heavy

...was sent, 10 months later!!! The battery they sent me would hold its charge for about 50 minutes; I guess HP supplied a new battery of inferior quality to the original to save money, now I am lucky to get 30 minutes use from it. Whilst waiting for the first battery to arrive the two controls below the mouse pad stopped working & these were changed under warranty. They failed again just before the warranty expired & the current ones are playing up again, I think these must be a weak point in these lap tops. The screen stopped working (it went blank) & had to be replaced, the technician who replaced it told me that this is a common problem with these models. The power lead adaptor stopped working & this had to be replaced under warranty but it took HP nearly 14 days to send the replacement to me from the UK, when it arrived it had the USA... Read review

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