HP 550

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Reviews for the HP 550

70% HP 550 review
Source: Techradar Archive.org version
When it comes to performance, the HP 550 is overshadowed by the competition in terms of speed, but this is a far more accomplished laptop when it comes to sheer ease of use. The keyboard may not be as good as we'd have liked, but we still found it comfortable to use and the large, bright screen makes this laptop a pleasure to use.
3.5 von 5, Display gut, Preis schlecht, Mobilität schlecht, Ergonomie gut
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 12/05/2008
Rating: Total score: 70% price: 40% display: 80% mobility: 40% ergonomy: 80%

Foreign Reviews

70% HP 550 NA947EA
Source: Notebookjournal DE→EN Archive.org version
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 07/01/2009
Rating: Total score: 70% price: 90% performance: 30% features: 30% display: 30% mobility: 30% workmanship: 70% ergonomy: 70%

76% Test HP 550 Notebook
Source: Notebookcheck DE→EN Archive.org version
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 04/10/2009
Rating: Total score: 76% performance: 59% display: 76% mobility: 76% workmanship: 74% ergonomy: 76% emissions: 83%

70% HP 550 FU408EA
Source: Notebookjournal DE→EN Archive.org version
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 01/15/2009
Rating: Total score: 70% price: 90% performance: 40% features: 30% display: 30% mobility: 30% workmanship: 70% ergonomy: 70%

90% HP 550
Source: PC Actual ES→EN Archive.org version
Single Review, online available, Very Short, Date: 08/26/2009
Rating: Total score: 90%

58% HP 550
Source: Laptopy.info.pl PL→EN Archive.org version
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 03/31/2009
Rating: Total score: 58% performance: 30% display: 66% mobility: 40%

Comment

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.

These graphics cards are not suited for Windows 3D games. Office and Internet surfing however is possible.

» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.

Intel Core 2 Duo: This is the Core Duo and Core Solo successor with a longer pipeline and 5-20% more speed without more power consumption. As an addition to the Core Duo design there exists a fourth decoder, an amplified SSE-unit and an additional arithmetical logical unit (ALU).

The Core 2 Duo for laptops is identical to the desktop Core 2 Duo processors but the notebook-processors work with lower voltages (0.95 to 1188 Volt) and a lower Frontside bus clock (1066 vs 667 MHz). The performance of equally clocked notebooks is 20-25% lower than Desktop PCs because of the lower Frontside bus clock and the slower hard disks.

T5470: » Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.

15.40":

15-inch display variants are the standard and are used for more than half of all laptops.

The reason for the popularity of mid-sized displays is that this size is reasonably easy on the eyes, often allows high resolutions and thus offers rich details on the screen, yet does not consume too much power and the devices can still be reasonably compact - simply the standard compromise.

HP: Founded in 1939, the US company is a major server and printer manufacturer and one of the leading IT companies in the world. Until 2015, the company was called Hewlett-Packard Company. After a split, the computer division was renamed HP Inc.

In 2023, HP had an approximate market share of 22% of global PC sales, making it number 2 after Lenovo.

72.33%: This rating is poor. More than three quarters of the models are rated better. That is rather not a purchase recommendation. Even if verbal ratings in this area do not sound that bad ("sufficient" or "satisfactory"), they are usually euphemisms that disguise a classification as a below-average laptop.

» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.

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