Wednesday, February 06, 2008

HP tx2000z Tablet PC Series AMD Based Is ON Sale; Read the Reviews

HP tx2000z Tablet PC with the start pricing of $1300 is available now for sale. This entertainment laptop is an AMD based tablet PC and gets benefit from HyperTransport technology, which improves system performance when running multiple applications. These processors also supply enhanced virus protection as well as Power for longer battery life.


This laptop with starting price is powered by AMD Turion64 X2 Dual-Core TL-62 (2.1 GHz, 512KB+512KB L2 Cache) but, by paying extra +$25.00 you can get TL-64 (2.2 GHz) and extra +$100.00 you can have TL-68 (2.4 GHz) processors.


The tx2000z features three USB 2.0 ports, an S-Video, a VGA, and a Consumer IR, an ExpressCard/34 slot, a 5-in-1 digital media card reader. (There is no FireWire port).

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The special features of HP tx2000z tablet with the Price of $1300 are:

- It has a high-gloss sleek HP Imprint Finish (Echo) design
- It is 4.3 lbs lightweight laptop
-2GB up to 4 GB of DDR2 memory,
- 160 GB HDD of hard drive space ( availability of 250 GB by paying extra +$80.00)
- A built-in DVD burner with Double Layer Support and FREE Upgrade to LightScribe
- 12.1" (1280 x 800) WXGA High-Definition HP BrightView Widescreen Display with, 180 degree swivel touch screen with active stylus. Instead of Stylus you can use your finger for simple uses

-NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150 graphics card with up to 598MB of shared memory,
-Built-in 0.3 VGA webcam above the display with Microphone (fingerprint reader is for higher configurations)
-Built-in Bluetooth and 802.11b/g WLAN with good performance (wireless a/b/g/n alone will be available by paying extra $20 and with Bluetooth +$40)

- The option of Verizon Wireless V740 ExpressCard by paying extra $199.00
-Altec Lansing speakers with adequate quality yet, it makes listening to music enjoyable
- The specious keyboard with full-sized good response keys is solid
- Novel touchpad with accurate control on curser
- The stylus is long and fat and comfortable in hand
- There is Media Center big-sized touch buttons on the screen
- Cool laptop that will not overheat your lap
- Three to four hours for 4-cell battery

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Laptop magazine has reviewed this new tablet PC and it is nice of you visit it.
I am quoting the result of tx2000 bench mark here:

With 2GB of RAM and a 2.3-GHz AMD Turion, the tx2000 garnered a decent PCMark Vantage score of 2,405,
but its MobileMark 2007 score of 51 was disappointing.
The built-in Nvidia GPU didn’t offer any 3D speed premium over recent embedded Intel graphics chips, however, with a 3DMark03 score of 1,141. And while the 5,400-rpm, 160GB hard drive storage is big and fast enough to hold tons of media, disk accesses emitted irritating and persistent clicks.

Well, according to these scores, this laptop is only good for typical entertainment and you can’t expect to get good response if you play current 3D games.

Well, this is a budget tablet for typical uses. Do not expect this tablet acts like a professional ones but it is a good option for many home users.


Laptop magazine thinks this laptop is weak in the following sections:
Dull LCD with poor off-angle viewing
mediocre microphone performance
too few dedicated tablet controls
Weak multimedia performance

Now, let us see the opinion of TabletPC review about this laptop:

Good sides:
-With a touchscreen and active digitizer, it's a real tablet.
-The small hinge is surprisingly sturdy
-Solid keyboard with good response and durable finish, good touchpad
- Resting palm on the screen in tablet mode doesn’t create any problem. The Wacom technology used is great
- Great entertainment features
-Mini remote control (same as tx1000)
-Reasonable price

Bad sides:
-Display is glossy and reflective, and is hard to read in the sunlight
-The digital is plastic.
- In tablet mode when you’re holding the underneath of the tx2000 you’ll feel that warmth, especially on the back right side where the vent is located.

PCmark05 test: HP tx2000 (AMD Turion 64 X2 2.3GHz, Nvidia Go 6150 graphics) scores 3,738 PCMarks while Fujitsu LifeBook T2010 (Intel Core 2 Duo ULV 1.2GHz, GMA X3100 graphics) scores 2,334 PCMarks and HP tx1000 (AMD Turion X2 2.0GHz, Nvidia Go 6150) scores 3,052 PCMarks and Lenovo ThinkPad X60t (1.66GHz LV Core Duo) scores 2,860 PCMarks.

3D Mark 05 test: HP tx2000 scores 636 3DMarks while Fujitsu LifeBook T2010 scores 566 3DMarks and Lenovo ThinkPad X61 (1.6GHz Core 2 Duo, Intel GMA X3100 graphics) scores 812 3DMarks and HP Compaq 2710p (1.2GHz ULV Core 2 Duo, GMA X3100 graphics) scores 634 3DMarks.

This laptop can run on Vista Home Premium (32-bit), Vista Business (32-bit) or Vista Ultimate (64-bit).

The most important result I get from these two reviews is that this affordable laptop can make you satisfied like its old version tx1000.

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1 comments:

Anonymous said...

where can I buy one?

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