Feature Rich Notebooks

This notebook is consistently good in performance and that's over the Quadro NVS graphics powered Tecra M5, with an ATI Radeon X1300. The scores are at 3300 in 3D Mark and 49.3 in MCCW that are actually below the Tecra M5 slightly. But its battery life of 4 hours and 17 minutes places it above the M5, although by a small

margin.

Like all well configured (specs) notebooks in this price range, this notebook comes with a fingerprint reader, a TPM chip, motion sensor protected hard drive and a smart card reader. The form factor is small and it is nearly an ultra portable, one with a 2 Kg weight. It also has bluetooth, wireless and gigabit ethernet for connectivity. All this together makes it a good

traveling companion.

The HP NC6400 has a built in microphone and this makes it unnecessary to have head phones or microphone cables dangling while you're on the

move.

One feature we missed? A webcam. That would have nicely rounded off the specs for this one. If this notebook came with a Gig of RAM instead of the 512 MB we found in this model, this notebook could do a lot better in

performance.

BOTTOM LINE: A notebook with the second highest price in the category, but with sufficient features and power to back up that price. If you can afford this budget, this is definitely a buy!

This notebook is aimed at

the absolute top strata of the corporate ladder, at VPs and Directors for

example. It comes with a titanium silver finish that lends it an aura

lucid styling. Like the ThinkPad, it boasts a Toshiba Assist button that

brings up a similar array of applications for security, protection and

connectivity management.

It has a fingerprint

reader and a TPM chip to help you biometrically encrypt sensitive data on

your notebook. The odd thing about it (its keyboard actually) is the

position of the Windows keys-usually found near the spacebar, this one

has it way on top, alongside the function keys. One of the few winners,

this one that does not have a single port along the front edge, though it

does have a rather well hidden and small WiFi switch there. The front

panel also hosts the notebook's LED panel, which makes it a little

difficult to see if you're not using the M5 on a table-top.

The notebook scorches

through the charts for this category with a 3330 3D Marks (second to the

ASUS V6J's 4379) and 52.2 in MCCW. Its battery lasts 3 hours and 8

minutes, the second lowest for this category after the V6J.

BOTTOM LINE: Tons

of features but draws the highest price in the category. A good buy for

your directors and executives.

This is a standard tablet

PC as far as its features go. But, its performance is not that great. It

managed only a 115 3D Marks and a score of 34.9 in MCCW. Battery life is

good standing at just over 3 hours. It is quite heavy weighing 2 Kgs when

most other tablets out there are in the 1 to 1.5 Kg range.

Remember that a tablet is

designed to be held in the arm and used on the move or in difficult

places. This tablet is more suited to working sitting at a desk! The low

performance is attributable to its Pentium M processor (rather than a dual

core-ts performance is actually quite good for a Pentium M) and a rather

old Intel 855GM graphics card with just 64 MB RAM.

BOTTOM LINE: If you're

looking for a tablet PC to buy, this may not be the best in the market.

But it is definitely one of the cheapest.

Features: 57.8 Performance: 49.3  



Price: 88.4   


Overall: 360 


Rs.1,14,699

Features: 83.2



Performance: 88.3  


Price: 100


Overall: 526


Rs.1,01,429

Features: 88.4 



Performance: 80.3 


Price: 92.2 


Overall: 518


Rs.1,09,990