After owning and using my HP550 laptop for the last six months or so, I thought it was about time I wrote a review of its performance. This will be strictly from a non-technical user's perspective with very little technical jargon because I'm not a computer technician and neither, presumably, are most of the people who will read this review. As I was away from home and with only an old and ailing Toshiba laptop with a Pentium 3 processor, I bit the bullet and bought a new notebook laptop from eBuyer. I chose the HP550 mainly based on the fact that HP is a reputable manufacturer, the specification was sufficient for my needs and the price was extremely ...  Read the complete review

My partner actually won this computer at work so I wasn't holding out much hope for it as I assumed it would have been one of the cheaper laptops on the market. I have to say though I have been pleasantly surprised. Our laptop is used every day pretty much as our main computer as I can work on it whilst downstairs. We also have wireless connected which is great as I will look for a recipe on the internet then use it to cook from in the kitchen, no need to print it off. This makes it really useful and the wireless connection has never failed. I think the look of this laptop is great. Not heavy with nearly the whole top part made up of screen rather ...  Read the complete review

hp 550 : a great companion for daily activity. in July 2010 i completed a year & 3 months period in the company of this laptop , it offered a great capability of handling me as student & as an advanced user , so if you are thinking in buying it , take this tour with me as i explain my experience with this hp product . first ... hardware statistics : monitor 15.4 insh lcd hd hard disk drive : 250 gb wdc ram : 2gb upgraded to 4gb maximum vga : Intel GMA X3100 Dynamic Video Memory Technology 4.0. processor : intel core 2 due 1.80 gh 2m cashe blue-tooth ...  Read the complete review

this laptop is a very light and is a easy to use laptop, it has good accesories inbuilt like the card reader, and the cd writer is very nice and easy to use. it is pretty fast for a laptop and it has a nice feel to it especially where your wrists go it is comfortable. its keypad is nice and easy to use and easy for those who type quickly it has wireless G but it is very stable and hasn't timed out on me yet. it has a very nice and easy to use wireless button for easy on off use. microphone/headset is at the front for easy to use, the disk drive is on the right hand side so you can easily change disks if you are right ...  Read the complete review

This is a very good choice for a budget laptop, has all the usual things you would now expect on any laptop, built in wireless and decent amount of memory. Good quality manufacturer and very reliable, easy to set up and very well made, looks better than you would expect for the price, easily set up on home network, have to create own set up discs upon first boot but thats no problem as apart from placing the discs in the writer the machine does the rest, nice keypad and mouse, doesnt tend to have a life of its own unlike my dell machine, i would strongly recommend this as a first laptop for kids at school ar anyone looking for reliablilty at a reasonable price, i cant ..  Read the complete review