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Multimedia notebooks are as popular as ever thanks to their incredible versatility. While they're large enough and powerful enough to become a desktop replacement they also have the added benefit of being portable. Because of this we're seeing more and more offices move away stocking desktops and to the more portable 17″+ notebooks. I guess they're hoping the employees will take their work home with them? Well I have gotten my hands on a fine example of these large notebooks; the HP Pavilion DV9830US 17″ multimedia laptop. I'm going to give it a quick review but first lets layout some of the basics.

Hardware:

Imaging: a bezel integrated 1 megapixel webcam (yielding an image about as good as a mobile phone's camera)

Processor: 1.83 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T5550

Storage Space: a 320 GB hard drive

RAM: 4GB of RAM (this is the maximum allowable by the motherboard)

Optical drive: a Blu-ray ROM drive with CD R/RW and integrated dual-layer DVD +/- burner

Graphics Card: Nvidia GeForce 8600M GS (using up to a whopping 2303MB of dedicated and system memory)

Dimensions: 15.1″ x 11.2″ x 1.6″ and weighs in at 7.7 pounds

This notebook about has it all. It is quite powerful with the 1.8GHz Intel operating as its power plant. It also has a great video card allowing for most games to be played flawlessly. Surprisingly when you take this notebook on the road it also gets up to a total of 2.5 hours of battery life. This is astounding to me since it is powering such a large display and has such strong performing hardware. I love that it has a bluray drive, this allows the consumer to enjoy high definition video, and it works great on trips (as long as the 7.7lbs notebook doesn't put your legs to sleep).

Connectivity:

Integrated Wireless

1 ethernet port (so that this notebook can connect to a wired network)

4 2.0 USB ports (this is used to connect peripherals ranging from input devices like mice and keyboards to devices such as printers, and MP3 players)

1 FireWire port (designed for high speed data transfer between other PC's or a digital camcorder)

1 HDMI output (so that this notebook can use HD televisions as a display)

1 VGA output (this is a typical monitor output)

1 S-Video output (this is used to connect to projectors or some compatible televisions)

1 ExpressCard slot (this is used to add hardware like a cellular modem or bluetooth adapter)

2 Audio outputs / 1 Mic input

5 in 1 memory card reader (this allows the consumer to directly insert their solid state memory from mobile devices into the notebook)

This notebook has excellent connectivity. I love that it has the HDMI output. This means that you can take this notebook into the living room and use it as a BluRay player on your HD television. This will save you money if you don't currently have a next generation player. The good news is that Sony's BluRay has won the format war over HD DVD, so don't worry about this machine becoming antiquated. This is an excellent notebook for those looking for entertainment or a pure desktop replacement. If you're looking for mobility I would look elsewhere.

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Both LG and HTC have been in this industry for many years and both have produced many mobile phones so far. LG KP 500 and HTC Touch Diamond2 are two mobile phones out of the numerous handsets produced by LG and HTC. But it is nothing short of a great dilemma deciding the better one between LG KP 500 and HTC Touch Diamond2. Nevertheless by analysing the features of the both of the mobiles, you can arrive at a conclusion.

Here are some of the features of the both mobile phones, which can help in a fair comparison of them.

Physical features: LG KP 500 comes with TFT touch-screen display with 256k colours which 3 inch in size, whereas HTC Touch Diamond2 comes with 3.2-inch in TFT-LCD touch-sensitive screen along with 480 X 800 WVGA high quality resolution. HTC Touch Diamond2 has larger screen size in comparison with LG KP 500.

Camera features: LG KP 500 has 3.15-megapixel camera and HTC Touch Diamond2 has 5.0-megapixel camera with inbuilt auto focus. It has also a secondary VGA CMOS camera. With the help of HTC Touch Diamond2, you can capture a better picture in comparison with LG KP 500. So, here HTC Touch Diamond2 has an edge over LG KP 500 in terms of camera.

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If there was not enough hybrid you drive this week, Hitachi and LG are planning to demonstrate their HyDrive ODD / SSD combo unit at Computex on Monday. Although at this point the campaign is only a concept, the association hired with videos showing how to 32GB or 64GB NAND effort with optics can do all sorts of wonders for your laptop.

A series of three videos MysteryDrive.net display associated with the campaign optical NAND boot Vista 20 seconds faster, improve playback of DVDs on scratching and loads fast game.

The practice of driving such a combo questionable, and we use optical disc more and more each day, but even so, there are certainly advantages to having. It remains to be seen on the notion that if something is lost, however, and if it comes on the market, whether or not users will see enough value to pay the premium for the additional flash memory.

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