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4.0 stars
"Great business notebook with super battery life"
Pros: Battery life, crisp display, small and light
Cons: hard drive slow; bluetooth mouse lacks scroll ability
Summary: My company issued this small HP computer to me three months ago and at first I was concerned about the smaller (12 inch) display size because I was used to 15.4 inch displays on my other notebook. Well, I needn't be concerned as the display is in fact excellent with tack sharp resolution and color saturation. The battery life is another feature that simply amazed me with always plenty to get through most of a work day on the road. At least 5 hours with a full charge on the extra capacity battery. As for size, although unit itself is compact and easy to pack in my computer case, this notebook has an excellent keyboard with large keys that are labeled with bright white lettering. It's not back lit, so don't think you can use it in the dark, but still the white characters are easily legible in a somewhat darkened meeting room. The slowish hard drive can be a bit bothersom because when doing automatic back ups of your work such as word or excel documents, its slowness becomes noticeable and annoying. But I realize that HP had to use this hard drive because it probably drains less battery power than some others they could have picked. Also, the single speaker on this notebook is located on the bottom of the unit. You heard it correctly folks. I think with all the design time that went into the rest of the unit, they could have done something more creative with the speaker location, and also put stereo speakers on the thing. But hey, this is a business notebook so they sort of scrimped on the audio. Altogether, with these small annoyances aside, this is a wonderful thin and light notebook that if you do much business travel to meetings and presentations, would be a near-ideal companion. Hence, my high rating.
