Advantages: Cash back, looks, Broad, bright display; comfortable keyboard
Disadvantages: Unimpressive battery life

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Advantages: Sturdy, practical, does its job well.
Disadvantages: Not a good entertainment centre, terrible battery life.

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Advantages: Very Sleek, Full Of Extras And No Unsightly Wiring Everywhere
Disadvantages: Inefficient Cooling Due To Sleek Case, Possible unreliability Due To High Operating Temperatures

...well, this device if it had a metal case would be very efficient at cooking your breakfast not just its own hard drive. although i must admit that hp were kind enough to replace its hard disk drive twice in less than a month. 5 stars for that HP! but really in my own personal opinion this machine is heavily overpriced considering its performance. although it does look nice its comes with windows vista home premium installed which makes light work of this pc's lack of resources. and not forgetting the temperature issue, i have at this very moment checked the temperates and would like to say that under a very light load, (ie, only running mozilla firefox and zonealarm security suite and windows obviously) This pc will sit quite comfortably at a CPU temperature of 64*c and a GPU temp 54*c. personally i wouldn't expect to see this high... 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: Price, Performance, Style, Fast, Updated, Many Features, Sleek, Light, Great speakers, Great disk storage
Disadvantages: Battery Life, Not the best for gaming, Vista slows processing speed

...This notebook has some very nice features considering its budget price. It comes standard with 2Gb of DDR2 SDRAM which I thought was nice. Windows Vista requires a minimum of 1Gb to operate normally. Seeing how this notebook has 2gigs, there is plenty of extra memory to run multiple programs at once. If you shop around a little bit you might notice that other laptops in the same price range as this one usually come standard with 1Gb. The hard drive is 160Gb large so some my feel its on the small side. I use this laptop mainly for school and office work so I doubt I would ever completely use up all that hard drive space. If I did I would go the route of an external hard drive anyways. The display is very bright and clear, and the laptop is very stylish with its dark blue cover and bold Toshiba logo. I would seriously suggest this laptop... Read review

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Advantages: fast big screen
Disadvantages: portability

...this great laptop is the business, its fast, robust yet portable and has a lot of storage space. unlike most the other travel mates, this one has a 17 inch screen, and most the others only have 15.2 inch screens so already this puts it up a notch against some of the previous editions. also the active matrix technology on the TFT screen makes the pictures sharper and brighter giving you the best possible image quality. this laptop features AMD Turion 64 X2 mobile technology processor which makes the 1gb installed ram run very fast. also the ram can easily be upgraded to a maximum of 4gb for those people who run demanding programs or people who just simply want a faster laptop. its bigger screen comes at a price however, it makes it a little less portable and weight slightly more than the previous editions. this laptop weighs 3.7 kg... Read review

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Advantages: speed, perormance, no dodgy intel media graphics
Disadvantages: none really

...The processor operates at 1.9 Ghz which is not the fastest processor in the world, the fastest in the family of processors is the Turion TL-66 at 2.3Ghz. This speed is definately not bad though, with many intel laptop processors coming in at around 1.6 Ghz to 2Ghz. The speed is definately more than fast enough for the standard home user and probably fine for business use or even professional use. Although it is not the fastest it is still reasonable, and it has to be said that being a laptop processor it can not be expected to reach the same speeds as desktop processors which I have known to reach 3.2Ghz. For anyone out there who is not technologically minded like me, and who does not understand Ghz, Mhz etc, it is quite fast, that is the simple version. PERFORMANCE The performance of the processor is great and it really is good at being a steady... Read review

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Advantages: Decent Memory and Processor
Disadvantages: Very slow graphics card and short lived battery life

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Advantages: dream machine-perfect specs
Disadvantages: slightly mad touchpad, some may not like looks

..., which is a very good operating system indeed. Everything is very easy to do, easy to navigate around and in general the operating system is a pleasure to use, but for more information you should read my separate review of Windows Vista Home Premium. One thing worth mentioning here is that it runs the 32-bit operating system as apposed to the 64-bit system that seems to be causing many problems for many people. Although in general computing terms higher numbers mean better specs this is not the case for Windows Vista. PROCESSOR The laptop has an AMD Turion 64x2 mobile technology tl-58 processor. It is dual core and operates at quite a speedy 1.9 GHz. Although in the world of desktops this would not be seen as overly fast in the world of laptops it falls only 0.3 GHz slower than the fastest I have ever known in a dual core laptop, which... Read review

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Advantages: Very fast, runs smoothly.
Disadvantages: Low battery life.

...I recieved my Acer Aspire 5103WLMi as a late birthday present this summer, in preparation for starting university. My dad chose the laptop for me, so I did not have any say in the matter! However, he made an excellent choice and I am very impressed with the computer. The computer is very fast with 2GB of RAM and successfully running Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium with a Windows Experience Index base score of 3.5. My model came with AMD Turion 64 x2 1.6 GHz processor with 2 x 512 KB cache. The monitor is 15.4" TFT. Equipped with a double layer compatible DVD +/- R and RW disc writer and 160 GB hard disk drive there is plenty of space to store all those essays, reports, pictures, programs and music. The wireless LAN card enables easy access to WiFi points. While the weight of the computer is not an issue in portablity... Read review

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