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: 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: Remote, Bright and Sharp Screen, Lightweight, Large Hardrive
Disadvantages: 1GB Ram, Only 3 USB Ports, Webcam Incompatability with Vista

...HP's piano lacquer Pavilion design with subtle wave pattern, provides the laptop with a nice appearance and the silver keyboard deck looks sharp and sleek. The glossy black exterior however, is a fingerprint magnet, but HP provide a cleaning cloth to compensate for this. The only downside is that the mouse buttons are soft and squishy, not giving a firm 'click'. The 15.4-inch glossy widescreen is of the new, brighter variety, with better colour reproduction. The screen's 1280 x 800 pixel resolution makes for comfortable viewing on an LCD this size, however higher resolution would be preferred. Above the screen you'll find an integrated webcam, which at 640 x 480 pixels has a lower resolution than other models however does not work with Vista and HP have acknowledged this!!! A little downside with the lid is the lack of latch, meaning... 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: Price, good specs, (xp?)
Disadvantages: may have problems bettween xp and any vista systems

...Yet anoter fantastic product from HP Hp is a global company that has been running for over 6 decades, so you know that when you buy a hp, you know what you are getting for your money. I have owned many HPs and been happy with many hp's and this is no exeption. The price is fantastic and it has very good specifications to match. The 15" screen is a perfect comprimise bettween view-ability and portability, the procsessor clocks at a quick 1.9 while having the advantage of being dual core. dual core meas it can handle multiple tasks quicker, ultimately speeding up the processing time of your pc. it has an acceptable 1gb of ram which means multiple programs will run fluently. It also has windows xp proffesional, many people thnk windows proffesional is still the best buisness o.s as it is often more simple than its Vista counterparts... 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: 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: its very portable
Disadvantages: price and lack of ram and hard drive

..., it means you wont really feel all that weigh on your shoulder if you do have to carry it around with you all day. The real reason why it’s a great portable laptop is its battery life though, it can last 4 hours and that’s because of its 8 cell lithium battery. This has two more than most laptops have which means it can last a lot longer than most. Because this laptop is made for business men, it comes with windows vista business, this means it also comes with some extra features and software you wouldn’t get with other editions of vista. You’ll get Intervideo WinDVD, HP Quick Launch Button Software, HP ProtectTools Security Manager, HP Client Manager Software (free download), HP Help and Support, HP Wireless Assistant, Synaptics Touchpad Driver, Norton Internet Security (60 days subscription), HP Backup and Recovery... Read review

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Advantages: elegant, reasonably priced, splendid specifications
Disadvantages: mediocre battery life (6 CELL), WXGA HD display flaws a little under direct sunlight, "quick play" sounds cannot be muted.

...cleaning small fabric. The dv6232ea falls behind within the entertainment line presented by manufactures as Toshiba and Sony in respect to the number of available interfaces. The notebook boosts of a total of just three(3) USB 2.0 ports, an s-video out jack, external monitor port, an expansion port 3, a network and modem jack plus a 1394 port and a digital media slot. As has become common in some mid and all high-end recent HP laptops, the dv6238ea has a multi-function optical drive supporting lightscribe, 8x DVD±RW plus a support for double layer. An express card slot is also included. Standard audio and wireless ports are located in the front. The rear of the dv6238ea is free of any port: something that will appeal to the beauty conscious. Conspicuously missing for a model in the entertainment line are a serial port and TV-out feature... Read review

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Advantages: Beautiful large screen, fast processor, Radeon 9200 Graphics Chip, Nice Loud Speakers, wonderful keyboard, USB 2.0 for faster transfer, large Harddisk, Touchpad Off switch, WiFi, SD card reader.
Disadvantages: Battery Life. Power cord placement, Only one pc card slot, Unavailability of bluetooth internal chip.

...whilst typing. HP / Compaq keyboards have always been a joy on which to type and this model is no exception. It's sturdy, with a positive feedback on each key, without it being too noisy. The width of the wrist area is wider than most, which allows the user to rest comfortably without the lower arm hanging painfully off the corner. This allows for hours of very comfortable typing, with any pressure spread evenly along the ergonomically curved front edge. Combined with the huge bright screen, this laptop allows extended comfortable use. Perfect for long hours of business use, trying to churn out pages of documents before the deadline at sunrise. I am extremely impressed with the Radeon 9200 64meg graphics. The computer will play any new 3D intensive game with the utmost ease. It's Direct X 9 compatible, and any games look amazing... Read review

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