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HP Pavilion ze4145 Notebook PC (1.53 GHz AMD Athlon XP 1800+, 512MB RAM, 40GB hard drive)

HP Pavilion ze4145 Notebook PC (1.53 GHz AMD Athlon XP 1800+, 512MB RAM, 40GB hard drive)

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Abreast of buying
Review: Optimum combination of quallty and price makes your purchase useful and reliable for your future

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Not a bad notebook for the price
Review: There are better notebooks, but for the money and coming from a major manufacturer it can't be beat. I wanted a notebook for business and not gaming. I wish however they would not pre-install all the apps. If I want Quicken or Word Perfect on my notebook, I will install them from the CD's.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Not a bad notebook for the price
Review: There are better notebooks, but for the money and coming from a major manufacturer it can't be beat. I wanted a notebook for business and not gaming. I wish however they would not pre-install all the apps. If I want Quicken or Word Perfect on my notebook, I will install them from the CD's.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Not bad except that the graphics are out of date
Review: This computer is nicely loaded except for one thing: the graphics. This system comes with a "Radeon" based chipset which is very out of date. HP is in the process of updating their laptop lines, and on all the older HP models like this you are stuck with the ATI MOBILITY RADEON chipset.

Oddly for much less money you can buy their newer Pavilion xt125 which has the ATI MOBILITY RADEON 7500C which (according to ATI) is 2.5x faster than the MOBILITY RADEON. It also has faster, cooler DDRAM (though only offered at 256M, you can upgrade to 512M and still spend less) and a 1.6GHz P4 class mobile Celeron which runs cooler and uses less power than a 1.4GHz Athlon and pretty much equals is on the benchmarks.

Frankly I think the HP Pavilion xt125 is the best deal going right now on Amazon. I'm sure HP will be correcting this soon by rolling out new version of their other machines with updated grapic chipsets, but in the meantime I suggest you go for the better machine at the cheaper price.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Not bad except that the graphics are out of date
Review: This computer is nicely loaded except for one thing: the graphics. This system comes with a "Radeon" based chipset which is very out of date. HP is in the process of updating their laptop lines, and on all the older HP models like this you are stuck with the ATI MOBILITY RADEON chipset.

Oddly for much less money you can buy their newer Pavilion xt125 which has the ATI MOBILITY RADEON 7500C which (according to ATI) is 2.5x faster than the MOBILITY RADEON. It also has faster, cooler DDRAM (though only offered at 256M, you can upgrade to 512M and still spend less) and a 1.6GHz P4 class mobile Celeron which runs cooler and uses less power than a 1.4GHz Athlon and pretty much equals is on the benchmarks.

Frankly I think the HP Pavilion xt125 is the best deal going right now on Amazon. I'm sure HP will be correcting this soon by rolling out new version of their other machines with updated grapic chipsets, but in the meantime I suggest you go for the better machine at the cheaper price.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: a slam dunk
Review: this notebook is the best note book for the price its damn fast and its 40gb harddrive is just wonderful . i use it for everything i used to do on my desk top. the only minus is its battery but with an extra battery on the go you are as set as anything


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