Laptops Arena

The Alienware Area-51 m7700 laptop is one of the best gaming laptop on the market at this time. Company officials were able to gather a lot of functionality into a compact and efficient form. The Alienware Area-51 m7700 comes with a 3.6 GHz Intel Pentium 4 processor, 1 GB of DDR2 RAM and a pair of hard disks with the total capacity of 120 GB of free memory.



With such power you will be able to play your favorite games and to do many other operations at the same time. When it comes to the video card we are proud to announce you that this Alienware model is equipped with the nVidia GeForce GO 6800 with 256MB memory, one of the most powerful graphics card. With this graphics card you will be able to play most demanding games without any problems at the decent resolution of 1440 x 900 pixels.

This model has a standard TFT 17 inch display with a native resolution of 1440 x 900, but if you want some extra desktop space you can pay $200 extra for a display with a resolution of 1680 x 1050.

The keyboard includes a numerical keypad and many multimedia buttons that allow you to have instant access to different applications like Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player and it even allows you to check your mailbox. Typing on the keyboard is very pleasant because the keys are not piled and they offer a very good feedback, which is very important for a fast writer. Below the keyboard you will find the touchpad which is very responsive but which is a little large for a gaming laptop. We recommend you keep a mouse plugged in all the time.



The Alienware Area-51 m7700 is equipped with a DVD writer which allows you to burn your DVDs without problems, but if you want more than that, below this drive you can find another bay which allows you to install a second optical drive. On the front side, you will find a set of multimedia control buttons which allow you to listen to your favorite music. The LED display shows the elapsed time of the song. The integrated stereo speakers and the subwoofer produce a very good sound so you will don’t need an external set of speakers.

When it comes to connections the Alienware Area-51 m7700 is equipped with 4 USB ports, a S-Video port, an Ethernet port, a modem socket, a single Type II PC Card slot, a 7-in-1 Memory Card Reader, 2 x 4-pin FireWire ports, a PS/2 port, a DVI port, some parallel and serial ports plus the indispensable headphones, line-in, line-out and microphone jacks. And that not’s all. The Bluetooth and the 802.11b/g Wireless will keep you in touch wherever you are.



However, we are disappointed when it comes to weight and battery life. The total weight of this laptop is 14.8 pounds (12.4 pounds is the weight of the laptop and 2.4 pounds is the weight of the power adapter) which is too much for a portable laptop. The battery life is very short, just 1 hour and 10 minutes under stressful test conditions and in standby only 2 hours and 50 minutes. But if you want a very good gaming laptop you will not be disappointed. The only one thing which is a quite exaggerated is the price. If you want to buy an Alienware Area-51 m7700 you will need to pay $3214, but you have to remember, performance costs.



The HP Pavilion laptop DV7-1150us is a great entertainment laptop. And I am saying this because the whole dv7 series is known for their beautiful display, great design and built in quality and the Blu-ray optical drive. Along with the Blu-ray drive comes the HDMI port which is one of the best things you can combine in order to watch high definition DVD movies on an external monitor.



The 17 inch display of the HP Pavilion laptop DV7-1150us is a real beauty which should be found on every true multimedia laptop. HP has used the widescreen BrightView Infinity technology. This means that the display is glossy making the colors sharper and more vibrating which contributes to a overall improved image quality. The screen has a native resolution of 1440 x 900 pixels which is more than enough considering the size of the display.

The 2.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T5800 processor is combined with 4 GB of DDR2 RAM which means there is enough speed and also enough power to run multiple applications at the same time. The 320 GB capacity of the hard disk should be enough storage space for you to store your favorite music, movies and other useful files. The graphics card does not live up to the power that the rest of components have.

The video card on this laptop is the integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500 MHD which can use a maximum of 1759 MB of shared video memory. The dual-layer DVD Burner uses the LightScribe technology so you can personalize your DVD’s by creating your very own labels. If you want to customize your laptop on the HP official website, there is a Blue-Ray optical drive available for the Pavilion dv7 series. It would be a real shame if people did not choose this optical drive which allows you to watch HD movies and really take advantage of the 17 inch display.

Above the keyboard you can find the Altec Lansing speakers which represent HP’s favorite choice when it comes to choosing the sound provider for the Pavilion line. The speakers are far better than the regular speakers that you find on a 15.4 inch laptop. However, nothing can really compare to a good set of external speakers as the quality of the sound is taken one step further. It feels very pleasant to use the dv7 keyboard and your fingers seem to take a natural course when you are typing.



In fact, the keys are so pleasant to touch that you sometimes feel like the fingers are typing by themselves. Above the keyboard you will also find a set of touch sensitive multimedia control buttons which are backed up by blue lights. Most people are extremely happy with the QuickPLay button which gives you instant access to movie applications, music and even photos. Even if this laptop is cheap people are always looking for different methods to save some money. If you feel that you really want to own the HP Pavilion laptop DV7-1150us but you don’t want to pay the entire price of a new unit, you can choose a refurbished model for as low as $529.

When you have a HP laptop with stylus pen, this one is generally used on the display which can also act as a touch screen. The stylus pen is a kind of replacement for your finger and it prevent leaving any fingerprints that can ruin the clean aspect of the notebook. An example of HP laptop with stylus is the tx2500z tablet PC. It is one of the best tablet PCs that money can buy and it has the specs to make people envy you for owning this beauty.

It runs on a 2.4 GHZ AMD X2 ZM-86 processor which is combines with 3 GB of RAM. The graphics card is the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3200 and the hard drive has a 160 GB storage capacity. The 12.1 inch display can be used as a regular laptop screen and as a touch screen which responds to the commands given by your fingers or the included stylus pen. It has an integrated webcam and other cool features like a fingerprint reader and a mini remote control. It has 3 USB ports, a multi format digital media card reader, an Express Card slot, an Expansion port, one VGA out, one S-Video port, an Ethernet port and 2 headphones and one microphone jacks.

Since the touch screen is the central focus point of the Pavilion tx2500z, let’s talk about the tablet features of this laptop. There are some cool things to be said about the functionality of the stylus pen. First I have to say that it acts like a pencil with an eraser at the other end. Whenever you write something on the screen and make a mistake, you can flip over the pen and erase the errors just like that. The display will detect the pen even if it is one inch away from the screen and this is great because your hand does not get in your way when you’re writing. When you switch the laptop to table mode, you may think that you have a problem since you lose control of the keyboard. Along the screen bezel you have buttons which can be used to control the multimedia features like listening to music watching movies and looking through pictures.

The screen bezel also hosts a webcam, great for video chatting using internet chat programs. Even if it’s sometimes easier to use your fingers, I would go with the stylus pen. First of all, it prevents the glossy display from getting all dirty and covered in fingerprints. Second, it is so easy to use it, it feel just like you were writing something down on a normal sheet of paper. First I thought that this is laptop for the business segment of clients. Then I thought it could be very useful for students who want to take notes in class. Finally, when I heard you could get this laptop for about $1000, I think most people can afford it. The battery of this portable unit can last about 3 hours when the windows power management profile is set to “balance mode” and the wireless card is enabled. I love it! Not only is it useful, but it is also good looking and also quite affordable if you ask me.

In this article, we are going to show some HP dv7t laptop info. This particular laptop models is part of the dv7 Pavilion series of multimedia laptops. The unit is customizable but if you want some of the best specs inside your laptop, you will have to pay about $1900.

The processor is the 2.53 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T9400 with 3 GB of RAM which can be upgraded to a maximum 4 GB. The capacity of the hard drive is 400 GB which is more than enough storage space and it allows you to use this laptop as your primary computer. The graphics card in an nVidia GeForce 9600M GT with 512 MB of video memory. There is also an integrated Bluetooth device and the operating system is Windows Vista Home Premium. In terms of ports and connections I can tell you that this laptop has 3 USB ports, one Ethernet port, one HDMI out, one infrared port, one 5-in-1 media card reader, one expansion port and the regular headphones out and microphone in jacks.

If the past designs of the Pavilion series used the glossy black chassis and the white circle imprint finish, the design of this Pavilion uses a grid pattern with the HP white logo in the upper left corner which glows whenever the laptop is turned on. The surface of this laptop is still a fingerprint magnet which has to be constantly cleaned up. Above the keyboard there is a set of multimedia control buttons which help you adjust the sound volume and control DVD playback. The keyboard is smooth and pleasant to type on. If you don’t have dry fingers, the keys may feel a little slippery but they offer positive feedback when you type. The 17 inch display is a beauty. It has a native resolution of 1680 x 1050 pixels and it makes an excellent desktop replacement. The levels of brightness and contrast are acceptable and the horizontal viewing angles are also pretty good. The sound is quality is very good maybe because the laptop has an integrated subwoofer.

Another great feature is the integrated TV tuner. Now you use the laptop as a computer and a small TV for one of your rooms as well. There is even an included remote control so you can lie on the sofa and watch TV of a DVD movie. You can watch a movie from all across the room and the speakers sound pretty good. I think this is the most important HP dv7t laptop info that you should know. For those of you that are particularly interested in the battery performance, I have some interesting news to give you. The standard battery is an 8 cell which can provide up to 3 hours and 15 minutes while listening to music, surfing the internet with the wireless connection enabled and while doing some word processing. You have to admit, this is some amazing performance for a laptop as huge as the HP Pavilion dv7t.

When you hear somebody talking about the HP N270 10 inch laptop they are referring to the HP Mini 1000, the smallest and most portable laptop that HP has ever manufactures. The N270 is in fact the Intel Atom processor that comes in the unit of this mini laptop. The starting price for this unit is $399 but if you want to add some extra feature you will end up paying about $550 for the HP N270 10 inch laptop.

Like I said, the processor is a 1.6 GHz Intel Atom N20 that comes with 1 GB of RAM. The graphics card is the integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 and the storage capacity of the hard drive is 60 GB. The laptop will come with the SP2 Windows XP Home Edition. It weighs 1.4 kg so portability is the main positive aspect of the HP Mini. This is why netbooks are designed: so you can have an ultra portable laptop which will help you get though the basic computing need like surfing the internet, listening to music or working on some documents. Since the laptop is small and thin, there is some flex noticed if you apply pressure when typing on its keyboard. There is no aluminum chassis or magnesium alloy so this laptop is not rugged and it will not resist too many shocks.

The good aspect of this HP Mini 1000 is that the keyboard is almost the full size of a regular laptop keyboard. It’s usually difficult to get used to super small keys as people that type fast make a lot of errors. For instance I have gotten used to typing without looking at my keyboard because I know exactly where my fingers have to be to press the right keys. If someone were to give a smaller keyboard, I would not be typing so accurately anymore. When it comes to the ports and features of such a small laptop you cannot expect to get too much benefit. The ports are usually sacrificed to make a thinner laptop. This HP Mini 100 comes with 2 USB ports, one SD card reader, one eSATA port, an Ethernet port, an option for an integrated Bluetooth and the regular headphones out and microphone in jacks. As you can see, you have no port for attaching an external monitor.



The 10.2 inch display has a native resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels and since it is so small, you are going to have to scroll a lot in order to read big documents or web pages. Netbooks are supposed to be well known for good battery life as they are highly ultraportable and you expect them to last long when you’re away from a power outlet. The 3 cell battery of this mini laptop is not that encouraging. If you plan to watch a video using DVD playback, the laptop will not stay on for more than 2 hours and 45 minutes. This means that you get a bit more than 3 hours on casual use.