HP Compaq Presario C700 Series
Processor: Intel Pentium Dual Core T2310, Intel Pentium Dual Core T2330, Intel Pentium Dual Core T2370Graphics Adapter: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100
Display: 15.4 inch
Weight: 3.1kg
Price: 500, 600 euro
Average Score: 83% - good
Average of 3 scores (from 4 reviews)
mobility: 80%, workmanship: 80%, ergonomy: 78%, emissions: 92%
HP Compaq Presario C700t
Notebook Specifications
Notebook: HP Compaq Presario C700tProcessor: Intel Pentium Dual Core T2310
Graphics Adapter: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100
Display: 15.4 inch, 16:10, 1280x800 pixels
Weight: 3.1kg
Price: 500 euro
Links: HP homepage
Source: Notebookreview.com
The Compaq Presario C714NR was an excellent buy for the $400 price I was lucky enough to find. As of time of submission I see that it is available at Best Buy or HP.com with an upgraded CPU (T2330, 1.6GHz) for $500. Keep your eye on the laptop deals section of the forum for the occasional coupon code that can drop the price even more. Overall, I'm pretty happy with my purchase. Sure, there are a lot of "better" laptops out there, but you'll have a tough time finding one for a better price. In terms of price-to-performance comparisons, I'd put this one near the top. For those looking for just the basic mobile computing solution, the C700 series is worth looking into. It also makes a good second laptop for the kids. If you need something with more horsepower, you'll need to look elsewhere, but for those of us with simple needs this fits the bill and uses all current generation technology which is a great improvement over what's been available in the budget laptop realm in recent years.
Preis/Leistung exzellent, Verarbeitung gut, Mobilität gut, Ausstattung schlecht
User Review, online available, Medium, Date: 01/16/2008
Rating: price: 95% features: 40% mobility: 80% workmanship: 80%
HP Compaq Presario C745eg
Notebook Specifications
Notebook: HP Compaq Presario C745egProcessor: Intel Pentium Dual Core T2330
Graphics Adapter: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100
Display: 15.4 inch, 16:10, 1280x800 pixels
Weight: 3.1kg
Price: 600 euro
Links: HP homepage Compaq Presario C745eg (Model)
Average Score: 85% - good
Average of 1 scores (from 1 reviews)
Source: Computerbild - 8/08
DE→EN, Medium, Date: 03/15/2008
Rating: Total score: 85% price: 90% performance: 60%
HP Compaq Presario C772eg
Notebook Specifications
Notebook: HP Compaq Presario C772eg Processor: Intel Pentium Dual Core T2370
Graphics Adapter: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100
Display: 15.4 inch, 16:10, 1280x800 pixels
Weight: 3.1kg
Price: 600 euro
Links: HP homepage Compaq Presario C772eg (Model)
Average Score: 82% - good
Average of 2 scores (from 2 reviews)
Source: Computerbild - 20/08
DE→EN, Medium, Date: 10/01/2008
Rating: Total score: 82% price: 90% performance: 80% features: 78% display: 87% ergonomy: 78% emissions: 92%
Source: Computerbild - 20/08
DE→EN, Medium, Date: 10/01/2008
Rating: Total score: 82% price: 90% performance: 80% features: 78% display: 87% ergonomy: 78% emissions: 92%
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HP: The Hewlett-Packard Company, founded 1935, commonly referred to as HP, is a technology corporation headquartered in California, United States. HP specializes in developing and manufacturing computing, storage, and networking hardware, software and services. Major product lines include personal computing devices, enterprise servers, related storage devices, as well as a diverse range of printers and other imaging products. Other product lines, including electronic test equipment and systems, medical electronic equipment, solid state components and instrumentation for chemical analysis. HP posted US $91.7 billion in annual revenue in 2006, making it the world's largest technology vendor in terms of sales. In 2007 the revenue was $104 billion, making HP the first IT company in history to report revenues exceeding $100 billion. Market share regarding sales of personal computers in 2007 (market research IDC): HP 18.9 %, Dell 16.4 %, Acer 9.9 %, Lenovo 7.5 %, Apple 5.7 %
Only older games can be played fluently with these graphics chips (if they were not too demanding). Shared memory graphic cores in this category got the advantage of less heat production and longer battery runtimes. For office, internet, image processing, and video editing tasks these graphics chips are still useable without any restrictions.
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100 is an integrated (onboard) graphic chip on a Mobile Intel 965GM chipset. It is the successor of GMA 950 and features a fully programmable pipeline (supports Aero Glass fully and DirectX 10 with newest drivers). The peformance of the X3100 is clearly better than the GMA 950, still demanding modern games won't run fluently.
>> Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
Intel Pentium Dual Core: The return of the name Pentium, though it is a Yonah core. In fact, it is a double Core processor with a very good relation of performance to current consumption.
15.4: 15 inch display-variants are the standard and are used for more than the half of all notebooks. 15.4 inch display with 16:10 are the standard for notebook displays. Nowadays, more and more 16:9 displays with 15.6 inch appear. The reason why so many people like displays with medium size is, that this size is not exhausting for the eyes, does not need too much energy and the laptops can be kept quite compact.
>> To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.
3.1 kg:
This weight is average for notebooks. Therefore the numerous mass of laptops with 15 inch display fits in this class of weight.
3.1 kg:
83%: This rating is to be considered as average, because the amount of notebooks with better ratings is about equal like the amount with worse ratings.
>> Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.
