Built for wherever work takes you, the sleek and stylish HP Compaq nc2400 Notebook PC is designed with a brilliant combination of form and function that includes the perfect balance of weight, size, and convenience making it the ideal travel partner.

Features

Ultimate Mobility: Starting at 2.8 lbs (1.29kg) and only 0.97 inches (24.8mm) thin, the HP Compaq nc2400 is extremely mobile - allowing you the freedom to work just about anywhere.
• Productivity: Can be configured with an integrated optical drive for enhanced productivity or without an optical drive for extreme mobility. It also features a 12.1-inch widescreen display with a large viewable area for maximum productivity and a lower profile design.
• Flexible Battery Choices: Power that goes with you. The HP Compaq nc2400 offers three battery solutions for lightest weight configurations or all-day computing.
• Touch Sensitive Controls: The intuitive, touch-sensitive controls are sleek and level to the surface for a stylish yet durable design. They have no moving parts to wear out and are moisture and particle-resistant enhancing the notebook’s reliability.
• Connectivity: A broad range of wired and wireless solutions helps you stay connected at work, at home and on the go.
• HP ProtectTools is a portfolio of security.
• Security: features designed to address critical aspects of IT security including the TPM Embedded Security Chip, HP Biometric Fingerprint Sensor, and optional Smart Card Reader.
• HP Professional Innovations – hardware features and software solutions designed to enhance security, ease of use and reliability.
• Ease of use: Full-sized keyboard for convenience and productivity. Convenient docking system with port replication and cable management in a space-saving design. Plus, HP Fast Charge Technology charges the primary battery up to 90% in 90 minutes.
• Reliability: HP Mobile Data Protection System 3D features motion detection and helps protect data from shock and vibration; durable structure with magnesium frame and full magnesium alloy enclosure; and In-mold Lamination offers a scratch-resistant surface.

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The Dell Latitude D600 is a solid business system with good features and components: a 1.8-GHz Pentium M 745, 512MB of RAM, 802.11g wireless, a DVD burner, and an 80GB hard drive. But when we matched it up against the competition, we found that other notebooks here offer more performance for less money.

The 5.4-pound D600 has a clean design with a comfortable full-size keyboard, both a pointing stick and a touch pad, and a crisp 14.1-inch SXGA+ display. It also includes two USB ports, a PC Card slot, and, surprisingly, a DVD+RW drive. Located right below the PC Card slot is a smart-card reader for added security.

The D600 performed worse than expected on our tests: 17.6 on Business Winstone and 21.3 on Multimedia Content Creation Winstone. Though these scores are below par for this kind of notebook, they are adequate for typical users. What’s more disappointing is the D600’s score of 3:03 on BatteryMark—second to last in this category.

Dell offers several docking stations and port replicators that are compatible across the entire D line, as is the AC adapter. The OS image is not common across the D line, though many of the drivers (like modem and wireless) are common.
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The HP Compaq nx7300 represents the latest available notebook in the HP nx series. The nx7300 is a Core 2 Duo budget laptop with a 15.4” widescreen display. Although it doesn’t offer anything out of the ordinary, design simplicity and solid build quality make it a formidable contender in the sub $1,100 price range. Obviously, HP with this models targets students and small businesses with a tight budget. Configurations vary greatly, you can get anything from a Celeron M up to a Core 2 Duo T7200 processor.

• Powerful Processing Power: Intel Core 2 Duo and Intel Core Duo processors allow simultaneous use of multiple applications so you accomplish more in less time enabling a true multi-tasking environment. Intel Celeron M processor is also available.

• Bright Widescreen Displays: Choice of 15.4-inch widescreen displays with optional HP BrightView technology, which makes viewing more vivid and clear. The striking widescreen display provides more viewing area than standard TFT screens for increased productivity.

• Connectivity: A broad range of wired and wireless solutions help you stay connected at work, at home and on the go.

• HP Professional Innovations – hardware features and software solutions designed to enhance security, ease of use and reliability.

• Security: To protect your valuable data, HP ProtectTools provides a suite of enhanced security capabilities designed to guard against unauthorized access to networks and business critical data. DriveLock helps prevent the data on your hard drive from being compromised even if your notebook is lost or stolen. HP Disk Sanitizer allows you to completely erase your hard drive data prior to disposal or service event.

• Ease of use: Comprehensive features include a large, crisp widescreen display, a full sized keyboard, a recessed touchpad with scroll zone and near silent touchpad buttons for extra comfort.

• Reliability: Designed to meet tough business standards including a strong, durable magnesium reinforced frame and spill–resistant keyboard. The HP Panel Protection System helps prevent the display from scuffing and scratching, and the HP Mobile Data Protection System helps protect the hard drive from shock and vibration to reduce the risk of data corruption.

• Warranty: One-year standard parts and labor limited warranty.

• HP Care Pack: Extend or upgrade your warranty.

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Introducing the world’s first notebook PC with Microsoft® Active Notifications. Whether the computer is on or in suspend mode, Active Notifications can automatically receive or retrieve email and calendar items so they’re ready and waiting when you need them, visible on the Toshiba Edge Display.

Created to harness the innovation in the Microsoft® Windows Vista™ operating system, the Portégé® R400 is an exquisite notebook and an elegant Tablet PC all in one. Encased in a scratch-resistant ultraviolet clear-coat case, the 12.1″ diagonal backlit LED wide-screen high-brightness display with wide viewing angles, in conjunction with Microsoft® Windows Aero™, delivers a rich visual experience. And with advanced EasyGuard™ security features, including a biometric fingerprint reader, multi-level passwords and TPM encryption module, the Portégé® R400 is as secure as it is attractive

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The Dell XPS M2010 is a new breed of technology for portable entertainment or productivity. Sporting a unique design, the system’s multimedia features include a 20.1-inch, high-definition widescreen monitor, eight speakers plus a subwoofer, a detachable, full-sized Bluetooth wireless keyboard and gyroscope-enabled remote, a webcam and a slot-load DVD drive.The XPS M2010 is a huge step forward as far as design is concerned; an innovative concept that’s a hybrid of a desktop and notebook.

The Dell’s unconventional structure houses a 20.1in widescreen monitor, which is attached to the base via a hinge bar. This leather-bound hinge also acts as a sturdy handle for carrying the laptop.At 8.6kg, it’s far too heavy to carry around, even for short periods, but there’s no problem with moving it around the house or carrying it out to the car.The base has a hidden slot loading dual-layer DVD burner and an array of touch-sensitive, backlit volume and media keys.
The hinge raises it 2.5in above the base, so it’s positioned as standalone monitors normally are. This relieves neck strain caused by peering down at a notebook’s TFT panel.The glossy screen is ideal for watching movies and taking advantage of the included Windows XP Media Center operating system.

The Intel Core Duo T2600, a first-generation dual-core processor, running at 2.16GHz powers this laptop. It’s a fast processor, although the new Core 2 Duo models, due out on 28 August, will no doubt eclipse it.An ATI Mobility Radeon X1800 is the supplied graphics card and, while there are better cards out there, it is certainly up to the task of mainstream gaming and media playback. It will also be capable of running the advanced GUI features of Windows Vista, which is due early 2007.

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