making opening the lid easy without compromising the durability of the body

Calendar September 5, 2010 | Posted by admin

The case is held shut with a magnetic latch, making opening the lid easy without compromising the durability of the body. The difference in contrast is unmissable, and the text on the Libre’s display had a bold, stand-out look to it.

Once you lift it, you’ll see the 17-inch wide-screen, LED-backlit display; it has a native resolution of 1,920×1,200, allowing for high-definition video viewing at its full 1,900×1,080 resolution.

A 6-in-1 multimedia card reader adorns the front edge of the laptop, and audio jacks, a third USB port, FireWire, and a phone jack accompany the 8x optical drive on the right side. A 250GB hard drive is housed inside.

Despite its diminutive size, the 2530p sports a full-size keyboard that is generally comfortable and responsive, but the function keys are a tad small.

The keys are wear-resistant, and the keyboard uses Mylar film beneath the keys to protect against spills. Aside from HDMI, the left side of the Y530 sports a VGA port, two USB ports, an Ethernet jack, and an Express Card slot.

Movies look great on the screen, but the viewability of the LCD drops off fairly quickly once you move away from viewing the screen straight-on.

Audio quality is about average for this class of notebook—which is to say, it’s neither great nor atrocious—until you enable the SRS Premium Sound feature.

Once you delve into a favorite title, you’ll find reading an e-book with the Libre is pretty much like reading ink on paper—but with a few extra things you can do only with an e-book reader.

The U30Jc-A1 has a healthy collection of connectivity options. The left side of the notebook has two USB 2.0 ports, VGA and HDMI video-out ports, mic and headphone jacks, and a lock slot.

On the right side of the notebook is the tray for the 8x DVD±RW drive, plus another USB 2.0 port, a Gigabit Ethernet jack, and the power jack.

The front of the unit houses the stereo speakers, Wi-Fi on/off switch, and a five-format flash-card reader. The 13.3-inch display has a native resolution of 1,366×768, and its LED backlight helps provide a bright and colorful image.

To play back multimedia files, view and record TV programming, and so on, you can use either the Media Center features of Vista Home Premium or HP’s own QuickPlay utility.

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