Aluminum Starter Brick.
The currently smallest aluminum MacBook with 2.0 GHz Core 2 Duo, 160 GB HDD and without keyboard lighting in review. Does the economical configuration suffice or should you dig considerably deeper in your pocket for the 2.4 GHz version?
A good, cheap alternative, or maybe just cheap?
Eee PC & Co have proved many critics wrong with their current netbook boom. Apparently, these mini laptops, with their long battery life and modest performance, are not only selling well, they are also stealing potential buyers from other notebook sections. The low-end models of laptop producers have not remained immune to this drastic change. The producers are trying not to lose their hold in the market by aggressively reducing the price of their above-mentioned models. The HP Compaq 6735s belongs to this group, as it is not only cheap, but also has a good combination of ports.
Our test model is available with many different AMD processors, such as: Sempron, Athlon 64 X2, Turion X2, and Turion X2 Ultra. The system of our test model is based on AMD’s Puma-platform, which uses the integrated ATI HD3200 graphics chip. Unfortunately for the HP 6735s, the competition is high. It must fight against the netbook faction and the Intel dominance of the market for control over sales, and, as if that were not enough, it has to compete against it’s own sister model, the Intel based HP 6730s. Continue reading »
