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HP Probook 4510

Viliyana Filipova — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:57:16 +0000

The laptops gradually cease to be a luxury product, unattainable for most households. This contributes to better market segmentation, and inexpensive mass production of Chinese factories, switching to more economical processes. Certainly decreased significantly and the quality of the hull, keyboard, cooling system, etc. Ever had a laptop mainly for corporate clients and series Thinkpad, Latitude, Tecra, LifeBook were uncompromising quality. This article will not discuss in detail the low grade laptops, and problems associated with their operation. There is enough material on the Internet forums about the problems of low-cost Satellite, Inspiron, Pavilion (AMD-series), Amilo and others. authorizing a series of major manufacturers. HP is among the largest and most reputable manufacturers of laptops – Laptops series of the American company can claim to best in class. For example HP Compaq series for the corporate market there is competition from last successful IBM Thinkpad T60 and less adequate for Lenovo Thinkpad T61, since 2006 no real konkuerntsiya the corporate market. HP Compaq Mobile Workstation no competition among graphic laptops, with the exception of certain models of DELL and Lenovo. HP’s achievements in the class of gamers laptops are definitely proven after the emergence of 20-inch HDX9000-series (Dragon). HP’s obviously lacking a clear-cut middle-class consumer laptops, which is similar to a successful series of Vostro DELL. Need for the emergence of new series of laptops from HP was imposed after compromising consumer Pavilion series of mass defective chip-sets AMD-modifications, and the marriage of video nuclei of NVidia (mainly 8th-Series). Disputed Pavilion series, however survived, except for much criticism for some of the products have an inheritance and very positive feedback. Change the look of HP’s consumer class began with the emergence of a new elite class HP Elitebook – really great laptops, combines the best of HP Compaq and HP Pavilion.
When the gradual fading of the negative reviews for HP Pavilion, it was logical to appear and to lower middle class who can not bear the heavy burden of thousands of negative feedback.
This test will look at two laptop HP’s new budget consumer range Probook, 4510s and 4510 models. Probook until 4510 could be attributable to the lower class, because Core Duo processor and integrated graphics card on Intel (4500M), it has Probook 4510s with Intel Core 2 Duo processor and a new graphics card from ATI (HD4330). Company to test the new representatives of the middle class will make older, but considerably more expensive business series – IBM Thinkpad T60 and DELL Latitude D620. I would like to compare the new consumer notebook and laptop second hand from an earlier generation that equates current market value. Is the T60 and D620 are from a previous generation is debatable assertion, given the lack of significant changes in technology. Previous generation laptops are rather Pentium M-based machines.

HP nw8240

Viliyana Filipova — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 12:20:52 +0000

After review of IBM ThinkPad R50p, again I give the event a workstation to test high grade. So far I had not met most of the powerful Intel Centrino 2.13GHz – the feeling of power is amazing, this is perhaps the most productive single-core processor in many applications lags far behind its dual-core processors and even lower middle class. Memory is DDR2, Hard disk – SATA, which offers opportunities for serious and very economical upgrades. The laptop is available with all modern functions – DVD-RW, BlueTooth, CardReader, 54Mbit Wi-Fi (Intel 2200BG). Extremely powerful stereo speakers with crystal clear, knows why put in a graphic station. Display with incredible resolution and wide format – 1920h1200! However, unlike IBM ThinkPad matrix is TN, viewing angles are among the best of this kind. The unique feature of the laptop is PCI-E video card which is working ATI FireGL V5000. Despite its focus on 3D, CAD / CAM design, the laptop is suitable for almost any modern game. Conclusion – an excellent machine for professional designers, mechanical engineers, architects, photographers … and gamers. The machine arrived with me in perfect form (as new) with new battery (approximately 3 hours). Imports are from Germany with German instructions on the keyboard. The price at which it is proposed is outside any competition with similar new graphics station.

Pentium M – which is the best Centrino laptop?

Viliyana Filipova — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:16:41 +0000

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. Conclusions: Toshiba Tecra M3 is the undisputed winner in the gaming and graphics tests. Exclusive graphical power makes this laptop suitable even for professional graphic design (see results from SPEC ViewPerf 8.1). Other indicators of power such as laptops are close to form two groups – Toshiba Tecra M3 and IBM Thinkpad T42, which are quite similar with the other group of IBM X31 and HP Nc6000, showing slightly weaker results, such as productivity. Centrino videomosht phenomenal for a Tecra M3 is somewhat succeeded neloshata competition from video on HP nc6000, which, however, loses much of its truncated videopamet. These two laptops are suitable for games and Tecra M3 is quite new for games like Serious Sam 2, Need For Speed Most Wanted. Thinkpad laptops show what strength, reliable, stylish and beautiful building, comfortable keyboard, solid and silent operation. It appears particularly well against the cheap housing and not very stable hinges HP nc6000. Of course, the quality of Tninkpad (IBM implementation) is bordered by the military and space technologies and is unattainable for other manufacturers and therefore not properly be taken as a yardstick against because of cheap Chinese new HP nc6000 laptop is much more robust and solid laptop. Our test laboratory is impressed by the agility of the work of the new Centrino 533MHz FSB processor, DDR2 memory, a high-quality production of the body and the powerful graphics card on Toshiba Tecra M3 and it’s championship performance, but our winner is IBM Thinkpad T42 – productive , stylish and reliable. Choice of authors, however, remains “midget” Thinkpad X31 – convenient, compact, rugged and lightweight. Technique that would mislead you to a much lesser extent than any other. Feedback from friends and customers for small Centrino are impressive.

The best gamers’ laptop

Viliyana Filipova — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:29:26 +0000

My aim was to compare the most powerful video from the system and processor laptop with a desktop machine, assembled with organic budget. Many took time to find a suitable gaming laptop. Our previous favorite – HDX9000 “Dragon” is too weak to compare with the video card on an average modern configuration. We stopped on DELL XPS M1730 with an incredible two NVIDIA GeForce 8800GTX video cards in SLI! Real madness for a laptop. CPU is Core2Duo T7700, 2.4GHz, 4MB – a solid performance. Sorry we could not find a DELL XPS with the most powerful processor Q9700. Before you see that window do not believe that the laptop coexist two 256-bit video cards in SLI mode: To be fed this huge laptop, DELL have provided enormous Adapter (for unexplained reasons, which is similar to that for HP Pavilion HDX9000). Heat separated from the worker is scary M1730 – desktop had the feeling that every moment will be dissolved. XPS design is quite “stout” – broadcast power and solidity, while it is very spectacular with its gaiety worlds (the color of which changes from BIOS). All lit up like in a disco – from “terrible” lid of the laptop in touchpad, columns that are red hot as jet turbines, and until the aluminum keyboard. Is available rather interesting keypad display showing hour / date, CPU and others. data. We were expecting a lot of noise from the fans M1730 and “scream” of the powerful adapter – nothing like it, very powerful machine works silently. Has a huge display resolution (1920 pixels) and good brightness. Unfortunately the matrix is a standard TN + Film, and so we hoped to be S-IPS, to the fantastic price of the laptop. In choosing a desktop competitor to surprise ourselves and not complied with the plan to purchase Quad Core Q9400. I can not focus on AMD revived and “phenomenal” Phenom II. We chose the AMD Phenom II 940 Black Edition 3.00GHz. We will not cover in this article, “klokerskite” opportunities unlocked processor – it will happen in another article. Will issue an advance that work perfectly processor 3.4GHz, and drove all the way to 4.00GHz – with cool boxes – so. Initially we had a great desire to equip the machine with another hit the market – ATI Radeon HD4770, but the scarcity of these video cards on the market led us to take ATI Radeon HD4830. At least we do not regret – graphics smote us with a phenomenal performance – below you will see that even one such video successfully fought almost anywhere SLI 8800GTX. On the other hand, let’s not mention the fact that the HD4830 is slightly daunkloknata of HD4850 – map of very high grade.