Posted 28 December 2005 - 08:06 AM
For Sale.. HP Pavillion Notebook.. $450 or best offer.. read a review of this computer below.. Machine is in great condition, only problem is top will not latch..
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By Bruce Brown
Hewlett-Packard showcases top-notch functionality and the first internal DVD/CD-RW drive built in a notebook in its new HP Pavilion N5295 Notebook PC ($2,499 direct, minus $100 mail-in rebate). This notebook is no slouch when it comes to speed either, sporting an 850-MHz Intel Pentium III SpeedStep processor and standard 256MB, SDRAM at 100 MHz. This three-spindle machine weighs in at a hefty 7 pounds 12 ounces, so you'll be happy to know that after toting this system around all day, you can sit back and watch a DVD movie on its 15-inch TFT display-without squinting. There's a lot to like about the Pavilion, as long as you don't mind its size: The unit measures 1.6 by 13.5 by 10.9 inches (HWD). This do-everything machine can play audio CDs without having the notebook turned on-just use the multimedia control buttons located on the unit's bottom front edge. The Pavilion's combo drive is the first of its kind available on a notebook. To test it, we played standard Redbook audio CDs, ripped audio tracks, wrote them on a CD-R, and formatted a CD-RW disk to use for backup. The versatility and space-saving capabilities of a single drive for CD, CD-R CD-RW, and DVD functions is a boon. Sound production is also good. The integrated Polk Audio stereo speakers have acoustic chambers for richness and ESS 16-bit Soundblaster Pro-compatible audio components. That said, if you use the Pavilion to play movies or music at home, you'll still want to plug into a regular stereo amplifier and speaker for the best effect. It has an S3 Savage IX 128-bit AGP2x graphics adapter with 8MB of video memory. In addition to the usual array of connections, it also has an internal mini-PCI 56K modem and a 10/100 Ethernet card with a composite video-out port for presentation displays on television screens. We compared the Pavilion with a Dell Latitude C800 (Read the ZDNet SuperCenter review of this product) equipped with the same processor, 128MB RAM, and a faster ATI Rage Mobility 128 AGP4x graphics adapter. The Pavilion bested the Latitude's scores in both the Business Winstone 2001 tests for Microsoft Office applications and the Content Creation Winstone 2001 tests for programs such as Adobe Acrobat. Thanks to its AGP4x graphics adapter, however, the Latitude whipped the Pavilion in the 3D WinBench 2000 test, scoring 24.1 to the Pavilion's 14.2. The Pavilion edged out the Latitude on three of four i-Bench browser platform tests, including HTML Load speed, XML/CSS Load speed, and Portable Document Format (PDF). The Latitude beat out the Pavilion only on the Java VM i-Bench test. The Pavilion's score on the BatteryMark Rundown test was an impressive 4 hours 16 minutes--45 percent better than the Latitude's 2 hours 56 minutes. This means that the Pavilion could run as long as in-flight rules allow on a cross-country U.S. flight, while the Dell would need its battery changed. There's a lot to like about the HP Pavilion N5295 Notebook PC. It isn't trim, light, or inexpensive, but as a desktop replacement or a go-anywhere and do-anything mobile machine, it's a winner.
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