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HP Compaq nw9440 versus DELL Precision 670

Viliyana Filipova — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 03:33:51 +0000

Again, the fight is between high-end machines, mobile graphics platform against the tabletop. On one side is the powerful desktop DELL Precision 670 with two separate processors XEON HT to incredible 3.40GHz. The second major contender is a graphical mobile station HP Compaq nw9440 with real dual-core Intel Core2Duo T7600 of 2.16HGz with 4MV cache. The battle is between the two professional video card machines – Precision 670 is presented with a Quadro FX3400, Quadro FX1500 video card is a HP Compaq nw9440.
To review more interest, including three in the test laptop, including two graphic stations (HP Compaq nw8440, HP Compaq nw8000) and a business laptop with a graphics card other than chip-set (HP Compaq nc6230).
HP Compaq nw9440 has a standard for business laptops, HP design – a style broadcast of solidity and reliability. The first thing one notices in this expensive station is unique graphical display with maximum resolution for laptop 1920 * 1200 (which is more than the full HD standard). 17-inch display offers good contrast, clear, detailed picture and great horizontal viewing angles. The keyboard is full-format (digital block is available) and very comfortable to use. An interesting item is selected for the fingerprint scanner (in the middle of the buttons on the touch-fall). Processor is powerful enough for all modern applications. Besides the display, the most serious difference between the nw9440 and home and business notebook is a powerful professional video card – NVidia Quadro FX1500, which impresses us with 256-bits, and they fast DDR3 memory. The core of the video card is an analogue of NVidia GeForce 7900 and it implies good performance for video games. The powerful processor and graphics card and the big screen with incredible resolution many electricity consumed, so the power adapter for laptop with record amounts. Despite this use, the laptop has an excellent cooling system – completely silent and maintenance surprisingly low operating temperature.
DELL Precision 670 is a real monster in size compared to standard home machine. Interestingly, aggressive and beautiful looking box with hardly any changes in benefits and desktop DELL XPS. Despite his solid size workstation is quiet. Opening the box we are impressed – two large coolers to cool two powerful termotrabi XEON processors, DDR2 ECC memory is capable of operating up to 16GB of memory. There are SATA2, PCI-E and other modern “O Good One.” Platform bottom is Socket 604 based Intel Tumwater E7525. XEON processors are 800MHz FSB and have Hyper Threading (OS recognizes the system as a quad). Due to her such a machine equipped with the most powerful professional graphics we have a video card – NVidia Quadro FX3400.
The conclusion is only one – Pentium 4 architecture in the face of XEON HT is hopelessly outdated, even though it was a good platform to test the HyperThreading technology, revived in the new Core i7.
The positive side of all the machines are clear from our previous articles and will not repeat truism that the more reliable, productive and efficient business laptops / graphic series of major manufacturers will not. Shortcomings in the HP nw9440 and DELL Precision 670, despite our critical attitudes were not found.

HP Compaq nc-Series

Viliyana Filipova — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 02:56:01 +0000

HP e among the leading notebook manufacturers, including consumer and Pavilion series, which is top of the huge 20-inch “Dragon” (review, which is below), and among graphic nw – series (Workstation) (made an overview of nw8000 and incredible nw8240). HP Tablet produces and amazing and it laptops with AFFS matrix (modification of AFFS). In this article, however we will look nc – series (business class of HP). A distinctive feature of this series is simple, very elegant design, imposed after the 2003-2004-years. This design is noticeable effort to maintain and even surpass the “benchmark” IBM ThinkPad T-series. Much like a thin profile, joystick, together with responsive touch-pad metallic upper lid, durable magnesium chassis, passive (in new models and active system) to protect the hard disk. Laptops from this series highlight the work and engineering focus, through the existence of a serial (COM) port. Many fans and satisfied fans of the ThinkPad, which decided to use the model as the HP Compaq nc6220 shared her satisfaction from working with HP. Starting today reviews the chronological order of the models. HP Compaq nc6110 – one of the first representatives of this business series. I will not describe the design of the laptop, as is typical for the whole series, but I will mention again that it is very elegant, made tight, no slack. Touchpad is very sensitive, responsive joystick is almost like a Tecra and Thinkpad. The keyboard is comfortable, although I personally liked more my Thinkpad. The processor is powerful enough for almost all uses DDR1 memory is selected, although the platform and supports DDR2. Video system released a Intel GMA900, ie weak for gaming, but excellent for HDTV, especially for saving battery power. HP Compaq nc6220 – almost the same design, the only difference is the presence of irritant for many sensor lights, adjust the brightness of the screen. Impressions are those of the nc6110. The main difference from the nc6110 is the availability of DDR2 memory. HP Compaq nc6230 – absolute twin nc6220, but “external” video card – Radeon Mobility X300. Although it displays all the mentioned laptops are now standard 1024 * 768 resolution, ATI video card earns defined more juicy and bright picture, and video performance is sufficient for a large number of games. I will mention, and that existing nc6230 was very powerful Intel Pentium M 2.00GHz, which gave him great advantage in most tests to nc6110 and nc6220.

DELL XPS M1330 versus HP Compaq nc6910p

Viliyana Filipova — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 02:23:37 +0000

As for phones and laptops when the buyer faces a serious choice between reliable business machine or image technique with lots of extras and excellent design. In this overview of image quality is selected beautiful machine DELL XPS M1330 with an aluminum coating, a separate video card with HDMI, a powerful processor. Business laptop is HP Compaq nc6910p atypical for such a laptop, a separate video card Radeon X2300. First impressions: – Both in size and laptop are quite similar, but the burden of solid chassis MAGNESIUM nc6910p HP machine makes a sound; – XPS M1330 initially seems infinitely more beautiful, unlike some trivial design HP Compaq, unchanged from 2004 onwards (HP Compaq nc6120/6220/6230/6125); – Keyboards and touch-dip of the two laptops are similar, with average quality (comparable to the excellent ThinkPad keyboards and Tecra). HP Compaq joystick is a little dry, but quite responsive. DELL XPS joystick when absent; – XPS M1330 has quite “glezotii” – remote-controlled camera, HDMI. HP Compaq as a serious corporate workstation, understandably there are no such “civilian” extras available only fingerprint scanner and reader for multiple memory cards; – HP Compaq nc6910p is dull display, while XPS M1330 has a glossy display with LED illumination. Picture of the XPS is more juicy, but continuous work is izmaryat more eyes (glare visual serizno loaded, even without being aware). In nc6910 picture is weaker, but significantly more comfortable for long work. See the photo of her clearly visible glare screen DELL XPS M1330: - Sound system is traditional for both the manufacturer – an excellent sound from HP Compaq, very close to that of the Pavilion-series with Altec Lansing, and the average quality of DELL XPS; – Both laptops are equipped with very powerful hardware that will stestvame below. Powerful processors (Intel Core2Duo T8100 and T7300) and detached with DX10 video and hardware acceleration for HDTV (GeForce 8400GS, Radeon X2300). XPS series is designed for multimedia and games, while the HP Compaq is the preferred business laptop because powerful hardware and reliable operation. From the test table shows that as processing power two laptops are almost equivalent, but as videoproizvoditelnost Radeon X2300 yielded little. HP Compaq nc6910p a more fitting video card would FireGL or Quadro NVS, on the other hand, such cards are used by “Mobile Workstation” of HP, as prices for such machines are substantially higher. Personal opinion: I would choose without any reflection, powerful and robust HP Compaq nc6910p, mostly because of the matte display and net business design. Gift for a girlfriend, attractive DELL XPS M1330 is unmatched, although the benefit so powerful machine for games and SIMS is like to see a Ferrari as a vehicle for a kart. An important argument in favor of the HP Compaq 6910p is the availability of drivers for Windows XP, with any system tests were carried out in this article. XPS M1330 was tested under Windows 7 – excellent substitute for the misunderstanding Vista.

DELL Latitude D420 versus HP Compaq nc2400

Viliyana Filipova — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 11:11:53 +0000

The laptop has become an integral part of our lives, and more people appreciate the compactness and autonomy. Niche maximum compact notebooks was somewhat successfully completed by netbooks. Partly because Intel atom is nice and economical processor, but is far from the performance of any laptop with a Pentium M processor – this is seen by many of our previous tests. Pentium M (Centrino) laptop, although the ratio unbeatable performance / economy remains in the past of computer technology. Market demand high performance, compact, economical and most autonomous laptops. Such laptops are positioned in the image class and are significantly more expensive than models with normal size and standard processors. The most prominent representatives of this class of mini-expensive laptops are Sony VAIO TZ, Toshiba Portege R500, Lenovo Thinkpad X300. These are powerful laptops with ULV (Ultra Low Voltage) Dual Core processors, weighing about 1kg., 12-inch matrix exclusive design. In this review we chose to test mini-laptops with more modest prices, but the uncompromising quality of DELL and HP Compaq. These are representatives of business-class manufacturer of both large and not image laptops, as mentioned above extremely expensive mini-laptops. Quality of workmanship and reliability in operation between image maker and expensive business model is a high class of comparable level, the difference is mainly in design. Short will present participants in today’s test overview: DELL Latitude D420 – noble very nice design (metal casing, solid craftsmanship), bright display with a high of 12 inches resolution (1280h800), quiet operation. The processor is Intel Dual Core U2500 (ULV 1.2GHz, 2MB), which unlike its bigger brothers is working with reduced voltage, but has retained the advantages of the Core architecture. Video system is outdated now, but productive enough Intel GMA950. The laptop is pretty quiet, radiation is not felt. The keyboard is firm and dry (typically about DELL), joystick is quite far from the level of the IBM Thinkpad and Toshiba Tecra. DELL sound of each is quite mediocre, is no exception and D420. Troubling is the lack of optical drive. DELL Latitude series supplied by his great batteries, our model is not new, but the battery earning over 3 hours; HP Compaq nc2400 – business-class HP e of simple, reliable and robust as the ThinkPad – MAGNESIUM chassis and metal elements to enhance the body, stylish and slim design. Nc2400 hardware is “twin” of DELL Latitude D420 – Intel Dual Core U2500, Intel GMA950. The laptop is absolutely silent in operation, the body is cold and in the most severe loads. Unlike the D420 sound system has more musical sound, the keyboard is more comfortable, the lack of touch-drop is offset by the excellent joystick. The size of the HP Compaq nc2400 is more compact than those of DELL D420, because of the lack of touch-pod. On the other hand, despite its miniature size, the laptop has an optical drive – DVD / CDRW. The screen is very high quality – bright, saturated colors and better visual angles. The battery is hard – with its low voltage dual core laptop could spend about 5 hours; DELL Latitude D410 – the predecessor of the D420, which although has a 12-inch matrix is much larger than the D420. D410 e fairly recent machine with DDR2, full Pentium M 1.73GHz with 2MB cache, Intel GMA900. The design is the same as the newer D420. The weight is solid and rather close to 2 kilograms. Than to 1kg.; IBM ThinkPad X40 – extremely compact and lightweight laptop. Very nice design, magnesium body, titanium components, the most convenient mobile keyboard an ideal in combination with a joystick – a true Thinkpad. ULV Pentium M 1.2GHz processor with 2MV cache is quite nimble for its frequency – true Dothan. Strong battery providing at least 4 hours autonomous operation. DELL Inspiron Mini 9 – and we included a popular netbook in our review to make it comparable with the most compact laptops representatives. We describe our model in other reviews – a beautiful, bright display with high resolution, ATOM HT processor, Intel GMA950.