Besides a user-friendly touch pad with comfortable to use buttons, this notebook also provides you with a blue track point.
Unfortunately, it reacts slightly too sensible which makes controlling it difficult. Also regarding ergonomics HP could still learn from the form of competitor notebooks. Above the keyboard near the left edge, there are the power switch, and from there to the right a number of additional keys. These provide you with a WLan switch up to volume control. The maximum brightness was measured at the center of the display and reached excellent The measurement diagram depicts the usual lowered blue color curve and a slightly raised red color curve.
So, the displayed colors appear warmer to the user. The black value of 0. In the Pixperan test of legibility this notebook reached an average result of grade 6. Because of the good brightness together with an acceptable illumination and a non-reflecting display surface, the HP Compaq nc is ready for outdoor usage , even in rather bright environments. Horizontally , the stability to the vantage point is good. Vertically , you can observe a heavy darkening and a color change to red, if looking from bottom up and a color change to turquoise, if looking from top down, outside an acceptable area of operation.
The HP Compaq nc is available with a number of different equipments. They range from 1. Also regarding video solution , there are a couple of different versions available. The least powerful is a Intel GMA video chip.
Nevertheless, you should not expect to much graphical power from a X video card. Both video solutions, the GMA chip as well as the X, are optimized for office use. Still, non-demanding 3D applications like, e. The customer also has the choice regarding main memory and hard disk capacity. Regarding hard disks there are, at the time of writing, revs models with GB and revs models with GB available.
The Seagate Momentus hard disk with a capacity of 80 GB, which was built in the notebook we reviewed, rated slightly above average regarding transfer rates and access times. Please also look at our benchmark list of mobile processors or at our benchmark list of mobile video cards , in order to compare this notebook to other configurations.
The fan of this notebook could be heard even without load idle , but stayed subjectively rather decent. Even the maximum loudness under load of up to The surface of the HP nc can become rather warm.
Therefore, a mobile use at the lap could become rather uncomfortable. We want to note, that the nc also has a main board temperature sensor besides the usual CPU and hard disk temperature sensors. The notebook only has a single speaker next to the front edge at the right. The maximum volume is remarkable, however, the quality of the sound is unacceptable.
Low background music is possible, however, we, nevertheless, recommend using a headset. The measured runtime of the standard 55 Wh lithium ions battery was in between a minimum of somewhat above 1 hour up to a maximum of more than 4. Should you demand a longer battery runtime, you could either use an "Extended Life Battery" 52Wh or an "Ultra Capacity Battery" 95 Wh , which are both capable of clearly enhancing the battery runtime.
Both of the additional batteries are to be docked at the bottom side of the notebook and clearly increase the weight and the height of the notebook. It is even possible to externally recharge the Ultra Capacity battery with a standard power adapter. Configuration Features. Memory Max Supported Size. Form Factor. Slots Qty. Empty Slots. Storage Interface. Serial ATA Optical Drive. Read Speed. Write Speed. Rewrite Speed.
Display Resolution. Widescreen Display. Diagonal Size metric. Display Resolution Abbreviation. Environmental Parameters Environmental standards.
EPA Energy Star. Humidity Range Operating. Shock Tolerance. Vibration Tolerance. Max Altitude Operating. Hard Drive Spindle Speed. Installed Qty. Intel GMA Memory Allocation Technology. Dynamic Video Memory Technology 3. Stereo speakers, microphone. Audio Codec.
High Definition Audio. Input Type. Communications Wireless Protocol. Wireless Controller. Wired Protocol. Gigabit Ethernet. The ports are conveniently located, and the location of headphone and microphone jacks marked on the top with small off-white icons. I guess due to the size of the laptop, there was no room for indicating the location of the USB ports, etc.
The entire surface of the computer seems framed inside a thin trim that protects the ports, optical drive, and speakers from direct impact, should one accidentally bump into something while moving the laptop around.
The screen is kept from brushing against the keyboard by little rubber bumpers placed around the screen and two at the bottom of the keyboard. The The screen is very crisp and bright. Unlike most consumer-oriented laptops these days, HP offers a nice matte screen. There are no dead pixels, no light leakage.
As an option, you can add a removable privacy filter preventing your neighbor on the plane from peeking into your work. The speakers are located on the front of the computer, but both on the right-hand side which, despite their quality, creates a slight asymmetry in the sound.
At first, I thought that it was a mono speaker as on Dell D, for instance. This can probably serve as a general warning: the speakers are usually much smaller than they look see ThinkPad, where the speaker occupies a third of the speaker mesh extending on both sides of the keyboard.
On the other hand, compared to the ThinkPad, where only the driver reinstallation assured me that the speakers actually exist, but are, for most purposes, useless, you can actually set the volume on HP nc where it is too loud!
And at no point did I get to a strained screech, as I do on the Dell which does not tolerate high tones. Overheating computer can be a cause of malfunctioning of many components. With my Dell, for instance, the cooling vents are ingeniously placed on the bottom.
The vents on the HP nc are on the left-hand side. No discomfort caused by a flaming keyboard or toasty plastic under your wrists. As to noise, you hear only a slight whisper of the fans. While the Dell heaved as an asthmatic whale, the nc is quiet as a dormouse. To someone who types most of the day, a good keyboard is a must. And I am very happy with this one. The HP nc has a full-size keyboard and a nice layout, with home, pg up, pg dn, end keys offset to the left by a narrow divider, and the arrow keys slightly lower than the other keys.
The fn key is full size, although not extra-wide as it is on the Inspiron On the other hand, the Windows key is located conveniently next to the left-hand ctrl and fn. Those who are used to one-hand keyboard shortcuts will appreciate this.
Unlike Toshiba, HP did not give up the second ctrl on the right hand. I am happy to see that the insert button migrated to the top right-hand corner, as I used confuse it with Delete and Ctrl on the Dell.
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