HP Elitebook 2730p Review




I’ve been playing with the HP 2730 for a few weeks now and it is time to tell you how it worked for me. The HP Elitebook 2730 is defined by HP as a business product, which means that it was designed to be moved around a lot (meetings, flights, road trips…) and therefore should be resistant to all that. Being a business computer also suggests that the 2730p would be used for common desktop applications such as Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and Web applications. There is nothing out of the ordinary, except that our little friend is thin & light!
Our particular flavor of the HP 2730 came equipped with:

* Core Duo 1.86Ghz CPU (low-voltage)
* 3GB RAM
* 120GB 5400rpm HDD (Toshiba 1.8″)
* WiFi-N, Bluetooth

As tested, this laptop costs around $1900. We will tell you how this laptop worked for us, and based on our usage, we hope that you can extrapolate how it might work for you.
Usage Pattern

We are often asked: “what is the best laptop?” and the answer usually start with: “it depends on your needs”. It turns out that blogging is not really different of many people’s typical “business use”, it involves email, web browser, text editing, image editing, IM sessions and of course, some uploads.

Performance

The perceived performance is reasonable. The laptop did not feel sluggish in any of our tasks, and obviously, the web-based applications or work (upload, browsing…) is mainly limited by the network speed and not by the computer. Here are a few key numbers that might help you grasp where the HP 2730 stands in terms of performance. This is done on a clean installation of Vista Business on top of which we installed: Google Chrome, Firefox and PCMark 05.

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Posted On 7 November, 2008 @ 2:34 pm

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