Best 17 Inch Laptops

At the beginning the notebook computers were used mostly by business men, so that they were able to take care of all their business while traveling. So a business man that had a laptop was capable of sending mails while he is in his hotel room, or to edit documents while he is traveling with the plane and so on. But today the laptops are used by all sort of people, no matter what is their profession or their age. And it’s no wonder that more and more people prefer to buy a new notebook instead of buying a new desktop computer. A laptop is capable of doing all the same tasks, but it is much smaller and portable.




There are many companies that are producing notebooks and here are some examples: Hewlett Packard, Acer, Asus, Dell, Toshiba, Lenovo, Fuji, MSI and Apple. Hewlett Packard is the largest technology company in the world, and it is also the best producer of personal computers.  It has the headquarters in California, United States of America but it has many other stores and factories all over the world. It was founded many years ago in 1939, by Bill Hewlett and David Packard and since then it continued to develop and to make huge profit and of course to bring great products for the customers. For example in 2007 Hewlett Packard had revenues of more than 100 billion dollars.



Not only that it is the best vendor of personal computers in the world, but it also produces very good and popular laptops. If you visit the official site of the company you can choose the desired laptop according to different criteria (solutions offered, display screen size, weight, price, battery life, processor and others). There are 6 brands of laptops made by Hewlett Packard, and they are: Compaq Presario, HP, HP Envy, Mini, Pavilion and TouchSmart.

Today we are going to discuss about one of the best 17 inch laptops made by this company, and we will choose the HP G 71 t. The starting price for this model is 579 dollars, and depending on the features it has it can cost more. The 17.3 inch diagonal widescreen display that has a 16:9 aspect ratio will offer you a good video experience. It has acceptable features, that will allow you to easily take care of your day to day computer activities. It also has a full size colored keyboard and a touchpad and a standard 6 cell  Lithium Ion battery. It can be used for work, but also for games and other fun activities. It features built in speakers from Altec Lansing, that will sound quite good. And if you want you can add a Blu Ray optical drive along with a HDMI port. So you can watch a movie in the Blu Ray format (meaning that it has the best quality), and you can watch it on a High Definition TV , and this way you will have a great movie experience. You can also choose to add a webcam so that you can always keep in touch with your friends and business partners.

But if you don’t want many features, and you just want the cheapest version, here are its technical details:
-         Processor – Intel (R) Pentium (R) Processor Toshiba 4300 (2.1 GHz, 1 MB L 2 Cache, 800 MHz FSB)
-         Memory – 2 GB DDR 2 System Memory (2 Dimm)
-         Hard drive – 160 GB 5400 RPM SATA Hard Drive
-         Graphics card – Intel (R) Graphics Media Accelerator 4500 M (Pentium Only)
-         Display – 17.3 ” diagonal HD + High Definition HP LED Bright View Widescreen Display (1600 x 900)

-         Primary optical drive – Super Multi 8 X DVD + / – R/RW with Double Layer Support
-         Networking – Wireless 802.11 b / g / n Card
-         Keyboard – HP Color Matching Keyboard

It comes with an installed version of the Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit operating system and with the productivity software Microsoft Works 9.0. The battery for this model is a 6 Cell Lithium Ion Battery and it also comes with a built in webcam and a microphone for video chatting on the internet. So here was a short presentation of one of the best 17 inch laptops made by HP. In case you own this laptop model, we invite you to tell us more about it. Tell us what amount of money you spent for buying it, and also if you are happy with it or not. Have a nice day!