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HP Compaq NX9005 review

Saturday 18 October 2003, 7:03 PM

Pretty much a desktop replacement.

The only tasks that I still perform on my desktop are in depth graphics manipulation, and detailed debugging --and in both cases it's so I can use my 21in. screen. Otherwise this machine is great -- the screen is large enough to be usable even for a multi-window browser like myself, the keyboard is acceptable (though I do miss the numeric pad) and I particularly like the touchpad off button. I can't comment on the quality of support for this product as I haven't needed any -- it worked out of the box and I've had no difficulties with it since it arrived.

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HP Compaq NX9005

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Editors rating: 7.4

Verdict

The NX9005 has almost everything you need in a business notebook, for a realistic price. One or two aspects could be improved, but this is a respectable offering.

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£ 769

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Put simply, what is the compelling reason to pay ~$200 extra for an Eee with Windows XP? A Windows Eee won't come with any useful applications and you'll have to buy anti-virus software to boot. The truth about low cost computing is that nobody really cares whether the machine is running Windows or Linux as long as its cheap, its easy to use and it works.