just purchased a hp/compaq nx7000, any reviews? - Page 4

The WXGA is fine, the wide screen aspect will make up for the large font compare to WUxGA. I tested the battery last night after fully drained and recharged. It ran from the dvdrom the full Crouching tiger hidden dragon dvd for 2 hours and still had 50% left over. My returned 600M lasted 1 hour 40min on one battery, couldn't even finish the dvd. I expect battery life to be about 4hour plugged into ethernet and mp3playing in the background, normal webbrowsing and stuff. The thing I really like is due to the 512mb of ram, the processor does not clock to full speed all the time, for example, my 600M almost all of the time at 1.3gig, but this machine mostly stay at 700 and was still more responsive and not sluggish at all. It only clocked to 1.4 when playing dvd or gaming full screen. The only thing I noticed is that there is no powerplay tab inside the advanced video config. So I wouldn't know if powerplay is running. the 600M had the powerplay tab and still the battery didn't last very long. So if I can get powerplay the nx7000 will probably last longer. Oh and I haven't got time to do benchmark because I've been so busy working, will do some later. And the screen is magnificent, it's just my digital camera, it's really old so don't expect kodiak quality! I do notice one really annoying dead pixel smack dab in the middle top of the screen, but I can't do anything about it since it's just one. darn it!

the dvd/rw is fixed bay i believe. this is what pissed me off as with all the excitement i forgot to check my order and it was shipped to me only with dvd no rw. But oh well, I'll just go out and buy an external one or something. Everything is p2p and internet nowaday anyway, I haven't burn a cd in like half a year lol. I don't do that much gaming. the only thing i play is starcraft and diablo2. in d2 at 800x600 wide screen is excellent. I get on average 60fps AA. and the graphic is so niceeeeeee. i ran sisoft sandra and notice that the laptop/portable power profile got low score compare to other centrino system tested by tomshardware and I figured out why. This system clock to 600mhz when running laptop/portable while testing with sisoft sandra. I don't know why it didn't clock to full speed as sisoft could be considered a high performance required software. When I put it to always one the score was comparable to 1.4 centrino system outthere if not higher. I don't have time to post score of pictures as today is friday and i'm going out of town for the weekend. Gonna test out my wifi at starbucks or something. Will be back with more!
DId anyone find out about the powerplay thing for this system? because it's not anywhere in the advanced display property, I don't think it's enabled.

where do i go to get ut2k3 demo? and yes I have the default driver d/led from hp driver section 7.57 i believe. and no powerplay tab.

i d/lded the demo and played around and I must say the graphic is impressive, I don't know how to run script or show the fps but it's very fast I think in the 60fps zone. If anyone can show me how to run a test with fps thing on then I will report the score.