There are many companies that are producing notebook computers and each one is offering a few families of laptops. Each family has its own series, and each series comes with a few models. So in case you have decided to buy a new notebook you will definitely have where to choose from. Most of the notebooks have the same shape and design but they are different from one another in color and especially in features and performances. Some of the best producers of notebooks in the world are: Hewlett Packard, Acer, Asus, Dell, Toshiba, Lenovo, Fujitsu, Sony, Alienware, MSI and Apple.

Most of these companies are offering some models of 17 inch notebook computers and today we’ll discuss about one of the best 17 inch laptops, a model made by Hewlett Packard, which is the largest producer of personal computers in the world. We’ll choose the HP Pavilion dv 7t series that have a starting price for the basic configuration of 799 dollars. Of course if you want a better configuration you will have to pay more, and the recommended configuration by the producer costs 1.297 dollars.

Any model from this series comes with a 17.3 inch diagonal widescreen display that also has a 16:9 aspect ratio which is perfect to watch movies in High Definition and play complex video games. Among the options you can choose to add a Blu-Ray disc drive and this way you will be able to enjoy movies at a great quality. It has a simple and stylish design and some models are available in other colors besides black and have modern lines and a surface that has a “liquid metallic” appearance. It has pretty much all the features for the day to day activities, but you can do of course even more than this. You can browse the internet thanks to its wireless technology, or you can watch movies, listen to music or play advanced video games.
So here are the complete technical details for the basic configuration of the HP Pavilion dv 7t series :
- Color – Espresso Black
- Operating system – Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
- Processor – Intel (R) Core (TM) I 3-330 M Dual Core processor (2.13 GHz, 3 MB L 2 Cache)
- Memory – 3 GB DDR 3 System Memory (2 Dimm)
So the processor is a new model, and a really powerful one, and combined with the big RAM memory, it will offer you a good performance for any kind of computer activity
- Hard drive – 320 GB 7200 RPM SATA Hard Drive with HP ProtectSmart Hard Drive Protection
- Graphics card – 512 MB NVIDIA GeForce G 105 M – For i3, i5 and i 7- 620 QM Processors



So even the graphics engine is a really good one, that will allow you to play video games or watch movies at a good quality. The display screen is a 17.3 ” diagonal HD+ High-Definition HP LED BrightView Widescreen Display with a resolution of 1600 x 900.
- Primary optical drive – LightScribe SuperMulti 8 X DVD +/-RW with Double Layer Support
- Personalization – Webcam Only
- Networking    – Intel Wireless-N Card
- Keyboard – HP Color Matching Keyboard
- Primary battery – 8 Cell Lithium Ion Battery
- Modem Port  – No Modem
- Productivity software – Microsoft (R) Works 9.0
So after all this is a really good laptop, and with the top configuration it is definitely among the best 17 inch laptops on the market. If you too had used one of the models from this series, we invite you to tell us more about it. Have a nice day!

The  computers had known a huge evolution during the last decades, and today they had become very complex devices capable of complex tasks. But the  desktop computers are not so popular these days, and this is because they are slowly replaced with a new category – the laptops. These are portable computers, and they are getting more and more demanded by customers. The best thing about a laptop is its portability…so you can take it wherever you want. First the laptops were mostly used by business men and they were taking them while traveling and they were able to take care of their business problems no matter where they were.  But in time more and more people began to buying a laptop, no matter what age or job they had.

There are many producers of laptops such as: Hewlett Packard, Acer, Dell, Asus, Toshiba, Apple,  Lenovo, Sony, MSI and Fujitsu. Hewlett Packard is among the best in the world. The company’s products are famous all over the world, and they had received reviews from most of the professional magazines and sites. PC Mag (with the site pcmag.com) is one of them and it is actually one of the best sites that gives professional reviews about computer and internet products. And for today we are going to discuss about a PC magazine review of a Hewlett Packard notebook computer. And we’ll choose the review of one of the best 17 inch laptops, the HP Pavilion DV 7-3183 cl.

As you can see this is quite a good looking laptop, that also has good characteristics. Usually if you want to buy a laptop for under 1.000 dollars you will have to choose between good speed and processor power or a large widescreen display. But the HP Pavilion DV 7-3183 cl, that has a price of exactly 1.000 dollars is offering a good mix between good performances and a 17.3 inch display. Beside the good quality of the image, this laptop also offers a pretty good sound quality, thanks to the Altec Lansing integrated speakers. It also a features a full size keyboard, a numerical keypad and a touch pad. It weighs about 7.5 lbs, so it is not quite as portable as other laptops of this size. It is recommended to use it on your desk, or take it in your bed next to you but of course if it’s really necessary you can carry it with you and use it on the road.



The processor of this laptop is the brand new Intel Core it M 430, which is one of the best processors for laptops on the market right now. It has a speed of 2.27 Ghz and the RAM memory for this notebook is 4 GB. The hard drive offers plenty of space to store all sorts of files, and it has a capacity of 500 GB. It also comes with an installed version of the Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Edition 64 bit operating system. As we said the display screen is a widescreen one that has a diagonal of 17.3 inches and the graphics card is a good one too  – the NVIDIA GeForce G 105M. the optical drive is a DVD + / -RW (Plus Minus) and of course it has both wireless and Ethernet connectivity for easy access to the internet

So here was a short review of one of the best 17 inch laptops made by HP. In case you already used this model, we invite you to tell us all your opinions about it, whether if they are good or bad ones. Have a nice day!

The notebooks are very small and portable devices that have the same components and are capable of doing the same tasks as a desktop computer. Usually the shape of all laptops is the same, and they usually are different in colors and technical details. Some of them are smaller, others are bigger, some have a widescreen display, others have much smaller displays, but all of them are lighter and portable so you can use them anywhere you want. There are many companies that are producing good notebooks and some of them are: Hewlett Packard, Acer, Asus, Dell, Toshiba, Lenovo, Fuji, MSI and Apple.

Acer is a multinational company that makes many kinds of electronic devices such as computers, notebooks, PDA-s, monitors, storage devices, accessories for computers and others. The company was founded in 1976 in Taiwan and since then it continued to grow and to make better and better products. In 2009 it was declared the second producer of computers in the world, so you can be sure that when you will by a product from Acer you will be satisfied with it.

And for today we’ll discuss more about one of the best 18 inch laptops made by Acer, and also one of the best ones on the market with this size of the screen, the Aspire 8735 model. This laptop has quite good features, and thanks to the large display screen you can enjoy movies or video games at a great video quality.. And to make the movie experience complete, this model also comes with a Dolby Home Theater audio enhancement. So it both looks and sounds great. The processor and all the other components are specially build to make your day to day computing really easy and pleasant.

And now here are the technical specifications for this model. It comes with quite a good processor the Intel ® Core ™ 2 Duo Processor T 6600 (2 MB L2 Cache, 2.20 GHz, 800MHz FSB) and with 4 GB if DDR 3 1066 SD RAM memory. The producer offers an installed version of the  Windows 7 Home Premium Edition 64 bit operating system, but this may depend on the store where you get the laptop from. Its hard drive has a capacity of 500 GB and works at 5400 rpm. It has an optical drive too, a CD / DVD reader and writer. The display screen is an Acer ® Cine Crystal HD + 18.4 ” (1680 x 945) TFT LCD widescreen display, with a 16:9 aspect ration and 8 ms high definition response time and up to 16.7 million colors. The graphics engine is a NVIDIA ® GeForce ® GT 240 M graphics (512 MB of dedicated DDR 3 VRAM and up to 1791 MB of shared system memory).

Some other features of this laptop would be:

-         Acer ® Video Conference with integrated high definition, Acer ® Crystal Eye webcam supporting, Acer ® Prima Lite technology, which consists of a premium sensor, firmware and lenses to provide superior video performance under low light conditions

It has most of the ports you need, including a VGA, and a HDMI ™ (High Definition Multimedia Interface ™) with HDCP (high bandwidth digital content protection) support ports. As we said the sound of this laptop is quite good, thanks to the Dolby ® optimized surround sound system with two integrated stereo speakers and one subwoofer supporting low frequency effects. It also has True 5.1 channel surround sound output. Since it has a built in webcam it also has an integrated microphone for video chatting online. Some other ports would be: Headphones / speaker / line out with SPDIF support, microphone and line in ports. It also has a card Slot – Multi in one card reader supporting Secure Digital ™ (SD), MultiMediaCard (MMC), MultiMediaCard Plus (MMCplus ™), Memory Stick ™  (MS), Memory Stick PRO ™ (MS PRO), xD-Picture Card ™ (xD). And of course it has both wireless and Ethernet connectivity for easy access to the internet:

-         Communications – Intel ® Wireless Wi Fi Link network connection supporting 802.11 a / b / g / Draft N wireless LAN, Acer ® SignalUp technology for enhanced antenna efficiency, WI-FI CERTIFIED ™  Gigabit LAN, Wake on LAN ready

Since it has a large display screen, it is a large laptop, and its dimensions are: 17.3 ” (440.5 mm) W x 11.8 ” (298.5 mm) D x 1.6″  – 1.7 ” (40.2 mm – 44.2 mm) H. The weight of this Acer laptop is quite big compared to others – 9 lbs or 4.1 kg. Because it is so big it is recommended to use it as a desktop replacement, and it has a full size keyboard  – 105 keys keyboard, inverted T cursor layout, standard numeric keypad, hotkey controls, 2.5 mm minimum key travel and international language support. But this is not all because it also has 12 function keys, four cursor, two Microsoft ® Windows ® keys; independent US dollar and Euro keys Acer ® backup, WLAN, touchpad lock and programmable easy launch buttons. It works with a 90 watt AC adapter, but after all it is a laptop, so it also has a 8 cell Lithium Ion battery with a battery life of up to 2.5 hours. So you can still take this laptop with you when traveling, and use it if you need to. And finally it has a 1 year warranty for parts and labor.

So after all, the Acer Aspire 8735 is a large laptop, but also a powerful one, that offers a lot of features and technologies. So it can definitely be considered one of the best 18 inch laptops. In case you already own it, we invite you to tell us all your opinions about it, whether if they are good ones or bad ones. Have a nice day!

The notebooks are getting more and more popular these days. At their beginning they were used mostly by business men because they are traveling a lot and they need to take care of their business even when they are traveling. But today anyone can buy a laptop, and use it anywhere he wants. Some are buying it because they are traveling a lot, while others just buy it to benefit from its small dimensions. So even if they are not traveling so much they simply use a laptop to have more free space on and under their desk or to take the notebook in bed and use it more comfortably.

There are many companies which are producing notebooks and here are some of the bests in the world: Hewlett Packard, Acer, Asus, Dell, Toshiba, Lenovo, Sony, Fujitsu, MSI and Apple. Each company is offering quite a lot of families of notebooks, each family with its own series and each series with its own models. So if you have decided to buy a new laptop, you will definitely have where to choose from. That’s why it is always best to make a lot of research before buying something and be sure that you make the best deal. There are probably more than 100 different new models of notebooks, but for today we’ll choose just 2 of them and make a notebook computer comparison. We’ll first discuss some general stuff about each model, and then present the technical details for each one and see which one offers the best features and the best price.

And for today we’ll compare some of the best 17 inch laptops, one made by Toshiba and the other made by Acer. Let’s begin with Acer, and from this producer we’ll choose the Aspire 7740 laptop which has a price of 700 dollars. It comes with a 17.3 inch display that has a 16:9 aspect ratio that will allow you to watch movies in High Definition, or do any other computer activity with a good video quality. The features offered by this model are:
-         operating system – Genuine Windows ^® 7 Home Premium ; 64 bit version;
-         processor – Intel ® Core ™ i3-330 M (3 MB L 2 cache, 2.13 GHz);
-         memory – 4 GB (2 / 2) DDR 3 1066 SD RAM;
-         hard drive – 500 GB;
-         integrated Super Multi drive;



-         5 in 1 card reader;
-         Acer ® CineCrystal 17.3 ” (1600 x 900) TFT display;
-         Intel ® HD Graphics;
-         802.11 b / g / n WLAN, gigabit LAN,
-         V.92 modem,
-         webcam;
-          fingerprint reader
And now let’s take a model of notebook from Toshiba that also has a 17 inch display screen and a pretty close price. And we’ll choose the Toshiba Satellite Pro L 550 notebook. The display screen for this one also has 17.3 inch in diagonal and it offers a High Definition vision so that you can enjoy good quality at movies, video games or perform multitasking activities. This one also has a HDMI port, so in case you are not pleased with the display from the laptop, you can connect it to a High Definition TV and enjoy movies at even better quality. It also features a built in webcam with microphone.
And now here are the technical details for the Toshiba L 550 – EZ 1703 model:
-         processor – Intel ® Core ™ 2 Duo Processor T 6570
-         operating system – Genuine Windows ® 7 Professional (64 bit) with Windows XP Professional (SP 3) Recovery Media or Genuine Windows ® 7 Professional (32 bit) with Windows XP Professional (SP 3) Recovery Media
-         memory – 4 GB DDR 3
-         graphics engine – Intel ® Graphics Media Accelerator 4500 MHD

-         hard drive -  400 GB HDD (5400 rpm)
-         optical drive – DVD Super Multi drive (+ / -R double layer)
-         other features – LED backlit display, numeric 10 key pad, Bluetooth, Dual core Processor, webcam and microphone, Energy Star compliant, face recognition, HDMI port
-         price – 900 dollars

At this comparison, the best 17 inch laptop from these 2 models is definitely the Acer Aspire 7740. Most of the features of the two models are the same, but there are still some big and important differences. The first major one is at the processor, and the processor from the Acer laptop is a newer and better one. The second difference would be at the hard drive, and the Acer laptop has a disc capacity of 500 GB, while the Toshiba model has just 400 GB. And besides this the model from Acer is 200 dollars cheaper so it can be considered better than the Toshiba Satellite Pro L 550. In case you own any of these 2 laptops, we invite you to tell us more details about them, and if you are happy with them or not. Have a great day!

Dell is a very well-known laptop brand. They produce laptops that are considered to be among the best in the field, so people buy them. The biggest Dell laptop computers are the ones with the most impressive features, because they act like desktop replacements, offering you the mobility of a laptop. In what follows you’ll see some of the biggest Dell laptop computers along with their features and performance, just as to get an idea about how they work and decide if people are buying only the name or the quality also.

The first laptop we’ll deal with is the Dell Inspiron 17 that has a starting price of $499. The laptop features a 2.2 GHz Intel Pentium Dual Core T4400 running on 2GB of RAM, which means that there’s enough power so as to run all your applications and even to let you multitask. The hard drive has a storage capacity of 160GB, meaning that you have space for all your personal stuff, starting from photos, to videos, movies and games. The laptops has the 17.3″ HD+ WLED display on which you movies and games will look great and a 8X CD/DVD Burner (Dual Layer DVD+/-R Drive) to allow you to store all the additional information on your own disks.

Another big Dell laptop is the $1.799 Alienware M17x that has a large 17-inch WideXGA+ display. The laptop features a powerful 2.4GHz Intel Core i5 520M processor running on 4GB of RAM, which means that, considering the fact that this is a gaming laptop, it will be able to run all your applications and recent games. Your games will also be supported by the 1GB ATI Radeon Mobility HD 5870 graphics card which will make them look awesome, without frames, and in high quality details. The laptop is a very efficient one and it has the power you need for your applications and games. The only bad thing about it and about the rest too, is the fact that they are really heavy and can’t be carried around without getting your back broken under the pressure.



The Studio 17 comes with a price of $1.099 and, of course, a huge 17.3-inch display. It also features a 1.6GHz Intel Core i7-720QM Quad Core Processor running on 4GB of RAM which will power you through all your applications and will also allow you to multitask, and a 500GB hard drive, on which you store all your personal stuff and more. This laptop, being a desktop replacement too, comes with very powerful features that are meant to make you forget about your old desktop PC and appreciate more efficiency and mobility in one single device. Being so massive, the laptop is part of the biggest Dell laptop computers too and it delivers the Hi-def audio experience that other laptops don’t have. All in all, if you are in need of a desktop replacement and Dell is among your favorite brands, you should check out these laptops, because they are the best in their category and they sure deliver nicely.