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Once you take off their price tags, you can not say that the HP G60-530us from the G60-533cl without a screwdriver, or at least not without resorting to the Start menu, right-click My Computer and click Properties. (The 530us has 3GB memory while the 533cl run 4GB.) That did not affect the choice of HP operating both laptops, the 64-bit version of Windows 7 Home Premium. It had no effect on performance, as we thought it might, the pair finished in a virtual band in most of our benchmark tests.

Design

The G60 is a no-frills notebook with a little smudge-and scratch-prone piano-black lid and black keyboard with a silver palm rest down and silver speaker grille above. The keyboard has a very good, medium-sized enterprises entering feel, with the Ctrl and Delete keys in their proper positions in the lower left corner and above the backspace key, respectively. The Beginning, End, Page Up and Page Down keys and arrow keys are small, but you can use their duplicates on the supplied numeric keypad.

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Electricity and Wi-Fi on off are centered above the keyboard, and a button switches the touchpad below the space bar for those who want to use a mouse (not included). Function-key combinations do not dedicated controls handle multimedia functions like volume, play pause and next previous track.

Features

The display is a 15.6-inch BrightView LCD with a glossy finish and excellent viewing angle. The screen is bright and colorful, but his solution is a tepid 1366 x 768 pixels has an aspect ratio of 16:9 is sufficient for 720p video, but behind the high-res screens on more expensive notebooks.

At 6.2 pounds, the G60-530us more of an occasional mobile as a daily commuter, but the 10 – fits up to 15 – by 1.8-inch frame in most portfolios. Microphone and headphone jacks are on the front edge of the system installed. VGA, HDMI and Ethernet ports on the left side, along with a USB port and 5-in-1 card reader. Two more USB ports and a modem port in addition to the LightScribe-enabled DVD + -RW burner on the right side of the notebook. You do not find an eSATA port or ExpressCard or PC Card slots, but there is a webcam above the screen and WiFi 802.11b/g/n under the hood.

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Also under the hood, 2.1 GHz Intel Pentium T4300 dual-core processor, a baby step from the 2.0GHz T4200 CPU, the G60 (441us), we reviewed in July. The hard drive is a 320GB, 5400 RPM Hitachi unit. The Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500M integrated graphics banish any thought to play innovative games, the casual-gaming service, WildTangent is preinstalled, as well as 60-day trial versions of Norton Internet Security and Microsoft Office.

Performance

The faster CPU, the G60-530us supported last quarter 441us Model Extraction of PCMark Vantage score of 3325 compared to 2844, for example, outdated, and stick with the G60-533cl double, Cinebench R10 with a value of 4426, and Windows Media Encoder time of 1.15. (In “interesting, but within the margin of error” department, 530us, with 3GB RAM was three seconds faster than his counterpart 4GB to test 533cl, in our Photoshop CS4.) None of the G60S is a threat for expensive runabouts like the Dell Studio XPS 16th The 530us also fell slightly below the battery life 533cl a period to test a decent 3 hours 19 minutes in our MobileMark 2007.

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If your budget is in the six C-note range is the G60-530us a well put-together system with an above-average screen and keyboard. It’s not a fire-breathing performer, but it is quite capable of casual image and video editing and productivity applications, and provides a nice balance of features and portability.

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