This AMD HP laptop series is powered with AMD Turion X2 Dual-Core processor. It has good keyboard and touch pad together with a decent 16:9 screen. The 16-inch HP Pavilion G60-445dx also come with Nvidia GeForce 8200M Graphics processos which replacing the 235dx’s Intel GMA 4500MHD from its brother the HP Pavilion G60-235dx.

Specifications Summary:

Processor:
2.2GHz AMD Turion X2 Dual-Core RM-75

Memory:
3GB, DDR2 800 MHz

Hard drive:
320GB 5,400rpm

Video Card
Nvidia GeForce 8200M G

Screen size (diagonal):
16 inches

Operating System:
Windows Vista Home Premium SP1

Other Key Features:
3 USB 2.0, Wi-Fi

Price Range: $529.99

In the bottom line HP Pavilion G60-445dx has a mediocre performance. There is also no bluetooth and the battery life only last for 1 hour and 47 minutes, which is quite disapointing.

The new 17-inch HP Pavilion dv7-2185DX notebook computer offer you a Quad Core processor with plenty of RAM, big hard drive, and powerful graphics card on your laptop to reach the top performance as a multimedia and gaming machines. It also has an impressive battery life that able to run for 3 hours and 4 minutes which is rarely found for a desktop replacement laptop like this.

Specifications Summary:

Processor:
2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Quad Core Q9000

Memory:
6GB, 800MHz DDR2

Hard drive:
500GB 7,200rpm

Video Card
1GB ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4650

Screen size (diagonal):
17.3 inches

Operating System:
Windows Vista Premium (64-bit)

Other Key Features:
4 USB 2.0, Wi-Fi

Price Range: $1,299.99

Too bad HP Pavilion dv7-2185DX doesn’t include bluetooth and blu-ray drive on the system. Even if they include the blu-ray, the 1,600×900 resolution is suboptimal for true HD content which is supposed to be 1,920×1,200.