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HP EliteBook 8770w gets reviewed from Europe

By Brad Feb 16 2013 add comment

The EliteBook 8770w is HP’s flagship mobile workstation notebook. The sleek business laptop packs a punch under the hood; the machine’s large 17 inch display also means a lot of surface area to house lots of components. The notebook is configurable with just about everything you can think of to construct one of the most powerful notebooks under 2 inches and 4 kg (9 lbs): quad-core Intel Ivy Bridge processors (maxes out at the Core i7 Extreme Edition), 4 DDR3 [...]

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HP Envy 15 Review, No Word Yet on Ivy Bridge Version

By Brad May 11 2012 add comment

The early 2012 (or late 2011, depending on how you look at it) HP Envy 15 continues to be a popular laptop at HP, given it is one of the few HP laptops available with the IPS Panel, BrightView Radiance display upgrade option. You can check out this quick video review produced by Dealzon on the new Envy 15:

While it wasn’t specifically made as a gaming laptop, the well-spec’ed Envy 15 comes with option of Quad Core i7 (Sandy [...]

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HP Folio 13 Ultrabook Review at pc.sk

By Brad May 9 2012 add comment

HP Folio 13 Ultrabook
Earlier this year, one of our loyal readers, Tomas Hlatky posted his in-depth review of the HP Folio 13 on computer hardware website PC.sk (I think the best description about PC.sk from me is that they’re the DPReview of computers in Slovakia). His review spans a whopping 13 pages long and extensively covers hardware and benchmarks, along with plenty of photos showing views of the HP Folio 13. Such an in-depth review should definitely [...]

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HP EliteBook 8560w Mobile Workstation user review at pc.sk

By Brad Jul 22 2011 4 Comments

HP EliteBook 8560w Mobile Workstation
Since the folks at HP’s public relations representative firm cite a limited of review units for laptops (Hmm… and not enough to get even one to us apparently), there’s not much of a choice but to let you readers somehow know how those latest Pavilions and EliteBooks perform… by linking to user reviews. I choose to handpick user reviews because they provide a lot more concise and in-depth (as well as honest and knowledgeable) look [...]

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HP Mini Wireless Keyboard review

By Brad Jul 6 2011 1 Comment

HP Mini Wireless Keyboard
In the crowd of notebook, desktop, WebOS and various announcements of 2010, HP has quietly sneaked out their Mini Wireless Keyboard. The HP Mini Wireless Keyboard is a compact keyboard without a number pad, geared at home theater PC and desktop owners. The direct competitors to the HP Mini Wireless Keyboard which I could find include the Microsoft Arc Keyboard, Verbatim Mini Wireless Slim Keyboard and the Apple Wireless Keyboard.

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HP EliteBook 8460w user review

By Brad Jun 24 2011 add comment

HP EliteBook 8460w Mobile Workstation
Interested in knowing more about the HP EliteBook 8460w Mobile Workstation? Well today is your lucky day! One of our frequent readers, Thomas Maurer has his review up on the EliteBook 8460w after he received it last week. There’s plenty of pictures and his opinion on using the 8460w as a replacement to his MacBook Pro. What’s stunning is that the notebook gets ’9 to 11 hours’ with the 9 cell [...]

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HP USB Graphics Adapter Review

By Brad Jun 15 2011 7 Comments

HP USB Graphics Adapter
Ah the HP USB Graphics Adapter… Let me first mention how delighted I am to have found something like this exists. Here’s the thing: I have an HP EliteBook 8740w that I will have to return in the long term and unfortunately for me, and since beggars can’t be choosers, the one I have here has the older generation Nvidia Quadro FX3800M graphics. And as I recently discovered… well, actually I knew it was gonna happen [...]

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HP Elitebook 8730w Performance & Noise

By Brad Jan 15 2009 12 Comments

In my previous write-ups about HP’s Elitebook 8730w this month, I provided some battery life figures for the 8730w Mobile Workstation when doing various tasks and also talked about the Elitebook’s gaming abilities. And now, we come to the Elitebook 8730w’s performance figures and noise. Again, here’s the configuration on the HP Elitebook 8730w I used for testing: Intel Centrino 2 (Core 2 Duo) T9400 2.53 GHz processor, 4 GB of RAM (2 X 2 GB), 17 inch [...]