HP Pavilion Media Center Dv6106eu

HP Pavilion Media Center Dv2530ea Entertainment

has a handy touch bar running along the top of the keyboard which controls the volume (super convenient!) and also runs the quickplay which is where the main Media elements of the laptop are controlled, e.g. watching dvds or TV. It also came with an additional TV card in the box so that if I wanted, I could hook it up to an aerial and watch standard television on my laptop. All in all this laptop has all that most people would ever need, with excellent sound quality (Altec Lansing speakers!) and enough memory to run more than one programme at once. It copes well with high memory programmes such as itunes and has capable graphics to run most computer games. It is also ...

HP Compaq Business Notebook Nx6125

filter but the screen is actually quite bright and apart from when used in direct sunlight I ve not had a problem reading it. It uses the AMD 64bit Turion processor which is unusual for HP/Compaq as they have only ever used Intel in the past. In fact I m pretty certain this is the first time they ve gone for AMD. Its probably one of the reasons why its cheap (£650) and the reason why you get rather good performance from it. I ll come to that later. By the way if you look at the specs that I m listing and compare them with the specs listed for this machine one different websites, you ll find a number of major differences. e.g. some websites show this as using the 3100+ ...

HP Compaq Business Notebook Nx6125

This laptop offers really good value for money and is a great office workhorse. The Turion processor is roughly equivalent to a similarly clocked Pentium M and gives enough performance for the cast majority of people. Adding an extra GB of RAM will speed it up enormously however, especially if you use several applications at once. The fingerprint reader works flawlessly and the only connectivity missing is an infrared port. It has USB2.0, firewire, pcmcia, bluetooth, wifi, 1000Mbit ethernet and a 5in1 caard reader. There is one very significant downside to this laptop however. While the speakers do sound fairly good, you need to beware if you use them. It seems ...