- Oct 25, 2004
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This review is for the HP L2000 Special Edition Notebook. Yes, this is the LIVESTRONG notebook! With the notebook, you get a cool bag that has Livestrong, AMD, ect on it, a pair of headphones, Livestrong wristband, CDs, manuals, ect...
Specs
[*]HP Special Edition L2000 Notebook PC
[*]Microsoft(R) Windows(R) XP Home Edition with SP2
[*]AMD Turion(TM) 64 ML-28 (1.6GHz/512KB L2 Cache)
[*]14.0 WXGA BrightView Widescreen (1280x768)
[*]ATI RADEON(R) XPRESS 200M w/productivity ports
[*]512MB DDR SDRAM (1x512MB)
[*]60 GB 5400 RPM Hard Drive
[*]DVD/CD-RW Combo Drive
[*]54g(TM) 802.11b/g WLAN w/ 125HSM/SpeedBooster(TM)
[*]12 Cell Lithium Ion Battery
[*]Microsoft(R) Works/Money
Appearance & Construction
This laptop is very nice looking. I'll take pictures later (gotta get my batteries to charge up). I'm a little dissapointed that HP didn't go with all blue lights on this notebook. Instead, only the WLAN button is blue, while everything else is orange. (Power, mute, touchpad on/off, num & caps lock, CD drive light, and power/activity/charging light). The bottom of this laptop is grooved, something that I've never seen. There are no ports on the back of the laptop except for power. One things that I'm sad to see is the fan on the BOTTOM of the laptop. This makes it hard to actually use it in your lap. The 12 cell battery (the 6 cell may), is actually raised up, like a stand. It turns into a nice thing if your using it on a hard surface, but it makes no difference if it's being used in your lap. The laptop feels very sturdy.
Battery Life
I haven't actually had a chance to test this, but when I do, I'll post it.
Performance
This laptop performs very well. Mine only has 1x512mb of RAM, but that will soon be upgraded, as it's cheaper to buy a stick rather than pay HP to do it. I'm not going to benchmark until then. The future-proofness with the 64-bit computing capabilty of the Turion is very pleasing, and Windows XP x64 will be a very nice upgrade when HP officially makes the drivers for it.
If I've left anything out, please let me know. I've been building PCs for 4 years, but this is my first REAL laptop. My first one was an Inspiron 8100 with a bad HDD. Dell REFUSED to replace it, and I vowed that I would never buy from them again. All in all, this is a very nice laptop. The yellow and orange fits with the Livestrong logo and the Turion logo. It is all very nice.
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Specs
[*]HP Special Edition L2000 Notebook PC
[*]Microsoft(R) Windows(R) XP Home Edition with SP2
[*]AMD Turion(TM) 64 ML-28 (1.6GHz/512KB L2 Cache)
[*]14.0 WXGA BrightView Widescreen (1280x768)
[*]ATI RADEON(R) XPRESS 200M w/productivity ports
[*]512MB DDR SDRAM (1x512MB)
[*]60 GB 5400 RPM Hard Drive
[*]DVD/CD-RW Combo Drive
[*]54g(TM) 802.11b/g WLAN w/ 125HSM/SpeedBooster(TM)
[*]12 Cell Lithium Ion Battery
[*]Microsoft(R) Works/Money
Appearance & Construction
This laptop is very nice looking. I'll take pictures later (gotta get my batteries to charge up). I'm a little dissapointed that HP didn't go with all blue lights on this notebook. Instead, only the WLAN button is blue, while everything else is orange. (Power, mute, touchpad on/off, num & caps lock, CD drive light, and power/activity/charging light). The bottom of this laptop is grooved, something that I've never seen. There are no ports on the back of the laptop except for power. One things that I'm sad to see is the fan on the BOTTOM of the laptop. This makes it hard to actually use it in your lap. The 12 cell battery (the 6 cell may), is actually raised up, like a stand. It turns into a nice thing if your using it on a hard surface, but it makes no difference if it's being used in your lap. The laptop feels very sturdy.
Battery Life
I haven't actually had a chance to test this, but when I do, I'll post it.
Performance
This laptop performs very well. Mine only has 1x512mb of RAM, but that will soon be upgraded, as it's cheaper to buy a stick rather than pay HP to do it. I'm not going to benchmark until then. The future-proofness with the 64-bit computing capabilty of the Turion is very pleasing, and Windows XP x64 will be a very nice upgrade when HP officially makes the drivers for it.
If I've left anything out, please let me know. I've been building PCs for 4 years, but this is my first REAL laptop. My first one was an Inspiron 8100 with a bad HDD. Dell REFUSED to replace it, and I vowed that I would never buy from them again. All in all, this is a very nice laptop. The yellow and orange fits with the Livestrong logo and the Turion logo. It is all very nice.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v303/..._golf19/HP%20L2000%20Pics/IMG_0184.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v303/..._golf19/HP%20L2000%20Pics/IMG_0178.jpg
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