HP Laptop Intel Pentium M 770 (2.13GHz) 512MB Memory 60GB HDD Intel GMA 900 15.4" Windows XP Professional 510(RX709AA#ABA)

Pros: This laptop still carries Win XP Pro which is nice and stable. I do not plan on upgrading to Vista now and this gave me a great XP laptop solution for cheap. Newegg offered ultra fast shipping on this unit.

Cons: This laptop has only 1 slot for memory. I ordered a second stick thinking that it would have a second expansion slot for ddr2 but no such luck. Beware that all upgrades have to go into the 1 memory slot provided. The battery life after the first full initial charge reads 1.5 hours - hardly the 2.2 hours advertised here. I am going to look into why this is. I assumed I'd get more battery time.

Overall Review: HP makes a great unit. I feel that this model is fairly well built. I don't like that all the usb ports are on the left side of the unit. This is not so great if you use a right handed cordless mouse. I rate this unit as average - and priced right. As always, shop newegg!

Pros: With rebate the price was right. I am happy with the display and that it came with XP Pro.

Cons: My huge issue is only 1 memory slot. I didn't read the fine print on that one, hard to justify buying a 1 gig card to only gain 512 meg. Battery life is not great. The mouse is odd to me.

Overall Review: A good value laptop. The performance is acceptable but I have not run any memory intensive apps yet.

Pros: Price/Value. XP OS NOT VISTA! Screen good even in bright daylignt. Easy to access USB, lightweight.

Cons: A bit slow - since we purchased this for vacation travel (email & photos) speed is not a problem.

Overall Review: Would like to have card slots for camera/PDA cards. Wish we could afford two so we can have a "spare".

Pros: Great laptop for work. We bought 5 of these and have not had any issues.

Cons: Speed, but for the price you can not beat it

Pros: Speedy and quiet. Nice sleek industrial design. Screen is large and crisp. Keyboard has good tactile feel and layout. Solid, sturdy feel overall. Best of all: XP, not Vista!

Cons: Short battery life. No Windows XP CD provided, and no recovery discs either (HP requires you to make these yourself). Screen hinge opens only to about 110 degrees (won't lay flat).

Overall Review: First, vendors decided they could save money by not providing a full Windows CD, just their own hardware-specific "recovery" disc(s). Now HP has taken that one step further. They don't even provide recovery discs, but instead pre-load a software utility that allows you to burn your own (requires you to supply 2 blank DVDs or 9 CDs). It also prevents you from creating more than one set, so you better hope you get it right the first time. The machine ships with 10 GB of the HD set aside for a recovery partition. Although that is kind of convenient, it also means you lose 1/6th of your HD space right off the bat (of course, you can choose to delete that partition if you want to go to the trouble and if you fully trust your home made recovery discs).

Pros: fairly cheap price... No dead pixels in LCD. Runs quiet. planning to upgrade to 1 Gig RAM.

Cons: GMA900 graphics card does not support Vista Aero interface. Processor is a single core, kind of outdated. Hard drive only has 2MB of buffer and newegg sells the same brand, capacity HDD with 8MB buffer for the same price as the 2MB version. Single slot RAM means the max. RAM capacity is limited to 1Gig and you will never use a dual-channel config...

Pros: Great laptop, zero problems, runs well, very light & stable. XP runs well with the provided 512RAM. Power adapter is tiny. newegg delivers as always, shipment was quick, no problems & this was the first notebook I've bought from them.

Cons: Bios is pretty weak, very few options at all and you get no OS disk, must make your own backup disk. HP really dropped the ball on the $100 rebate! We are still going back and forth with them to get it.

Overall Review: Be careful with HP rebates. We ordered the laptop June10 w/ a rebate promotion from Jan1-July31 (advertised by newegg and printed on rebate), then after we buy the product and send off rebate 2-weeks later we get a response telling us they "changed" the promotion ending date to June11!! Luckily we are still in it by one day, but we have still not received a check.

Pros: Runs very cool. Good Bat life.

Cons: Vid card stinks.

Overall Review: Nice case.