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HP Pavilion dv7-3065dx Review

November 27th, 2009

Let us start with the key specifications of this powerful HP computer available at holiday sales. With a large screen, this notebook comes under the category of the desktop replacement and it a a good value for money at around $700 at the time of review. Of course, we do expect  the prices to fall with time, a timeless phenomenon with all the gadgets of 21st century.

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Processor AMD ’s 2.4GHz Turion II Ultra Dual-Core M600
Memory DDR2 SDRAM - 4GB  800MHz
Hard drive 500GB ,  7,200rpm
Operating System Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium
Dimensions -     16.2 in x 10.9 in x 1.7 in
Screen size 17.3 inches
System weight without AC adapter 7.1 pounds

I have knowingly omitted some more in depth technical details including chipset details and the graphics card details - as - the common users and buyer is not able to know what these are and makes the buying choice difficult.

The Pros: Has  Blu-ray player normally available only at high end computers. Dedicated graphics, good performance; aesthetically good looking ; touch-sensitive  control keys.

The cons:  audio could have been better, low average battery life, glossy touch pad is not the best.

The verdict: HP Pavilion dv7-3065dx has big-screen and a Blu-ray player and is a good laptop for its money. It could have been better with a better Audio output.

The large 17.3-inch display of this notebooh is driven by LED backlighting and has  16:9 native resolution. The pixes resolution of  1,600×900 nmakes HD videos look great. It is highly recommended for people who like to use larger displays.

The battery life is poor as this notebook. Using an 8 cell battery, the battery life is about 2 hours and 50  minutes. Many other notebooks of this category are able to achieve this much of battery life with just 6 cell battery.

The notebook does come with 1 year industry standard warranty.  Most of the HP notebooks come with a lot of unnecessary software installed that makes the computer slow. This is my biggest complain from HP.

Performance wise this notebook does a great job and is perfect for the all kind of computation intensive tasks including video processing and compilation.

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HP Laserjet P1006 Printer Review

November 27th, 2009

The HP Laserjet P1006 is slightly faster thab P1006 at 16 pages per minute instead of 14 page per minute of Laserjet P1005 printer. It does not provide any substantial improvement over HP P1005 printer. They have about 700 pages with the original cartridge that comes with the printer. They do not have wifi or the Ethernet connectivity. It is a bit cheap at about $120 but not cost effective. You may like to consider other HP Laser printeres that print over 5000 pages with one cartridge. But this one is good if you are space concious and need it for home printing.

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Key Specifications of Laserjet P1006

*   Printer Type   -  Laser - Monochrome
* Dimensions 13.7 inx 8.8 in x  7.6 in
*  Weight 10.4 lbs
* Print Speed 16 pages per min
* Connectivity USB Wired
* Resolution ( B&W ) 1200 dpi x 1200 dpi

It does not has networking connectivity.  Many printers now a days come with wifi connectivity in addition to ethernet connectivity . This feature helps small offices where many persons can print on the same printer.

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HP Laserjet P1005 review

November 27th, 2009

I just purchased this printer at Staples. The price was $49 and that was what prompted me to buy the printer. I actually wanted some higher end that had wifi as well. But on that black friday it was out of stock.

The first thing that I want to tell you is that the cartridge with this printer has been specified to print 700 pages. That is written on the Box. This is the most important figure that you would like to point out. I checked for this figure on all review sites including cnet but none of them told how many pages it can print with the cartridge. I hope that this review throws light on how many pages it can print. Take a look at this picture.
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Key Specifications

*   Printer Type   -  Laser - Monochrome
* Dimensions 13.7 inx 8.8 in x  7.6 in
*  Weight 10.4 lbs
* Print Speed 14 pages per min
* Connectivity USB Wired
* Resolution ( B&W ) 1200 dpi x 1200 dpi

It does not has networking connectivity.  Many printers now a days come with wifi connectivity. This especially helps small offices where many persons can print on the same printer. You will also note that the USB cable does not come with this printer.

Many persons have complained that if the printing stops in between, there is no way to cancel the printing - and you will have to reboot the computer and printer. I will have to check this at my end.

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Toshiba Satellite T135

November 22nd, 2009

The Intel CULV-powered ultraportable, 13-inch Toshiba Satellite T135 notebook has long battery life, very thin body, and is very light and portable. Powered by Intel’s 1.3GHz SU4100 processor it is great for people who want to carry less weight on their shoulder.

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Key Specifications:

* 1.3GHz Intel Pentium Dual Core(2MB Cache, 800MHz FSB)
* 4GB PC3-8500 DDR3 (2 x 2GB)
* Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
* 13.3″ WXGA HD TruBrite LED Backlit display (1366×768)
* 320GB 5400RPM Toshiba SATA Hard Drive
* 6-in-1 card reader
* 6-Cell Li-ion 61WH battery (70Wh reported), 65W Power Supply
* Dimensions: (W x L x H) 12.7″ x 8.78″ x 0.87″/1.35″
* Weight: 3lbs 12.9oz (with 6-cell battery)
* Price as configured: about $700

Toshiba Satellite T135 is 13-inch laptop with thin chassis and Powered by the 1.3GHz SU4100 and Intel X4500 integrated graphics. This laptop is easy to carry around because of their low weight and average dimension. Toshiba Satellite T135 performs in our tests, and it is affordable with a high quality laptop.

Users of Toshiba Satellite T135 have all the benefits of typical computers in the market. This small laptop has similar features as what ordinary computers have. Toshiba offers different color schemes for this laptop. The color scheme can enhance the look of your laptop and it will look nice. If your favorite color is red, blue or yellow you can apply them in your laptop as a color design on your screen. There are other choices like black and white as well.

Toshiba Satellite T135 has below average volume of sounds. This small laptop does not need high peak volume because it will not be suited for their size. These laptops have very small speaker drivers and it was placed below the palmrest, which is why, they are not producing a high peak volume of sounds. Users must have headphones for this laptop.

Toshiba Satellite T135 is very comfortable to use because of their full-size keyboards. The palmrest size is just the thing to rest your wrist without causing stress points while typing even long writing you should have. Keyboard is very responsive each key has reasonable soft action. Even the typing noise is lessening, with very little sound emitted when each key was triggered. People who are planning to buy this kind of laptop will get all the benefits especially, when you have to use this for long typing job.

In addition, Toshiba Satellite T135 also has three USB ports, VGA and HDMI-out, LAN, audio jacks, and a Kensington Lock slot. This is good when compared to mega portable laptops because of this port selection.

It should be a useful laptop, if you need a great battery life and portability. It is however, not suitable if you are a programmer and need a great processing power.

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HTC Droid Elis Review

November 15th, 2009

You have most likely come on this page looking for a review for the HTC Droid phone. However, you made a typo mistake or a phonetic mistake. There is nothing like HTC Droid Elis, there is HTC Droid Eris. I wanted to tell you this because next time when you search make sure you write HTC Droid Eris in place of HTC Droid Eris.

I came to know this because I posted a review of the HTC Droid Eris on my associated content account . However when writing the review, I has spelt the Eris incorrectly as Elis in the subject. Next day I saw 68 hits on this topic. I was surprised to find that the number of hits could be that high. On further investigation I found that the cause was the typo and interestingly many people seem to be searching with the term Elis in place of Eris. You can find the original review on starred reviews here

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