HP Pavilion tx2050ea

You've got to hand it HP. Although the consensus seems that the PC is the ultimate niche in a niche, he spent a fair amount of time and money trying to sell the idea for the mass market. His first attempt was tx1000, which was tidy efforts, which have shown promise, but needed some clarifications, HP and went away and come up with hope, improved version, Pavilion tx2000.

We really got our hands on engineering sample machines, which features AMD Turion X2 TL-66 works at 2.3GHz and 160GB 5400rpm SATA HDD. Nevertheless, the only model currently on the market Pavilion tx2050ea, which is identical to our sample, apart from the fact that you get slower AMD Turion X2 TL-60, who works at 2.0GHz with 1 MB of L2 Cache and 250GB HDD. Otherwise, the same system, with each package in an impressive range of opportunities for small 12.1in laptop such as this.

As usual, you get 2 GB of RAM 667 MHz DRR2, which is no more or less than you need when you start 32 - bit Vista Home Premium, as it does. NVidia GeForce Go 6150 means that there is no timetable powerful, but it is a portable laptop, and we do not expect much more. You will receive LightScribe, capable of DVD + /-RW optical drive, so you can watch DVD, DVD, burn and burn labels on them.

Network Connectivity is also a strong side, with draft-N wireless, Gigabit Ethernet and Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR all inclusive. This means that you should have no problem streaming high-definition video, or with the machine, which, subject to storage provided sufficient definitely a possibility. Indeed, there is little tx2050ea not enough. You also get 0.3 megapixel camera with built WebCam stereo microphone, fingerprint reader, a mini remote and so six to eight cells and cell-battery in the box.

At around £ 640 this little HP is astounding value for money and, given that prices could just as easily consider it a standard 12.1in notebook that happens, just to have a convertible and touch-sensitive screen, because you actually not paying much of the premium for it.

Much of that value is generated using a mobile platform for AMD, which is markedly cheaper, but weaker in terms of raw performance and battery life compared with Intel currently shares. Matters relating to the level of battery charge somewhat offset by the inclusion in the standard and extended battery, but that does not mean that with the extended eight-cell battery weighs machine hefty 2.33kg, but not insignificant for notebooks this size. Things improve with six cells, although, with a total weight of slipping below 2kg to 1.92kg.