This Lenovo ThinkPad laptop series is powered by AMD or Intel ULV processor. This Lenovo ThinkPad Edge also has a good looking design with gloss and silver touches. However, the absence of the optical drive may annoy some of you since it’s uncommon thing for notebook series.

Specifications Summary:

Processor:
1.3 GHz Intel Core 2 ULV SU7300

Memory:
4GB, DDR3 1066MHz

Hard drive:
320GB 5,400rpm

Video Card:
Nvidia GeForce 8200M G

Screen size (diagonal):
13.3 inches

Operating System:
Windows 7 Professional (64-bit)

Other Key Features:
3 USB 2.0, Wi-Fi

Price Range: $799.00 – $1,145.99

In the bottom line, this laptop has a new nice design and a quite affordable starting price. If you don’t mind with the Optical Drive lackness, this notebook could be your on your top shopping list.

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.

HP Pavilion dv3z is a 13-inch laptop which is inexpensive and highly configurable. Its starting price is less than $700 and you can freely choose your favourite hardware configuration that fit your need.

One of those configuration is the HP Pavilion dv3z with 2.3GHz AMD Turion X2 Ultra Dual-Core ZM-84. It has 4GB memory, 320GB harddisk storeage, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3200 graphic processor, 13.3 inches LCD display, Wi-Fi, bluetooth, and Windows Vista Premium (64-bit) for operating system.

The price range for this configuration is $754.99

Specifications Summary:

Processor:
2.3GHz AMD Turion X2 Ultra Dual-Core ZM-84

Memory:
4GB, 800MHz DDR2

Hard drive:
320GB 5,400rpm

Screen size (diagonal):
13.3 inches

Operating System:
Windows Vista Premium (64-bit)

Other Key Features:
3 USB 2.0, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth

Price: $754.99

Driver and other software support is always available at HP official Customer care website.