After testing several professional graphics stations, our new office received a very modern, beautiful and good quality machine – HP dv5000 (with modification Core Duo, NVidia GeForce 7400, Altec Lansing sound). Construction has nothing to do with performances by 1300lv expensive. of known and unknown companies like MSI, Turbo-X, Asus, Gigabyte, Acer … lowest class of Toshiba, HP, DELL. Strong and solid plastic, a quality display with good angles, quiet cooling, durable battery. Lots of extras on the model can be found on the Internet, but I most impressed me a remote control panel – very beautiful and stylish, comfortable control of the laptop for quite a long distance. This is extra good because unlike other laptops, the sound system in the dv5000 is hard-level – a powerful and rich sound from Altec Lansing. Screen unlike previous models are not professional shine with a professional or a colossal matrix resolution, but there are very good viewing angles, the coverage makes it a perfect picture, where no direct sunlight (typical for a glossy coating). (more…)

In our test lab visit the following “contenders” for the champion’s title among Centrino (Pentium M) laptops: - Toshiba Tecra M3 – Centrino Pentium M 1.73GHz (2MB), GeForce 6200TE 64MB, 1024MB DDR2. Stylish and very model of a solid senior class Tecra Toshiba (nothing to do with receiving the black and poor along the import Sattelite series). Metallic shell, comfortable keyboard, joystick, DDR2 memory and the course is in fantastic broken way GeForce 6200 video card. - HP nc6000 – Centrino Pentium M 1600MHz (2MB), Radeon 9600 32MB, 512MB DDR. Rugged design, good sound, bright and contrast display, good video. - IBM Thinkpad T42 – Centrino Pentium M 1700MHz (2MB), 512MB DDR, Radeon 7500 64MB. Extremely healthy, stylish and thin composite shell, the strongest hinges (titanium) of the views from my laptop. Very comfortable keyboard and extremely convenient joystick, active protection system on the hard disk (sensor position and acceleration). A powerful graphics card, which is limited only by the lack of support for DX9. - IBM ThinkPad X31 – Centrino Pentium M 1600MHz, 512MB DDR, Radeon Mobility 16MB. Very compact 12-inch mini-laptop. Same strong composite housing as T42. (more…)