My Birthday/Christmas Treat to Me!!..

There's only three out of those I've gotten rid of!!..

Productivity & finance
Microsoft® Office Home and Student 2007 60-Day Trial Version - Put my Licence Number in (my Free copy I got in my Deal).. so not a 60-Day Trial anymore!!..

Software included
Recovery partition (including possibility to recover system, applications and drivers separately); Optional re-allocation of recovery partition; Recovery CD/DVD creation tool - I made my Recovery DVD's (3 in total.. but you can order them from HP if you want) and re-allocated the 11Gb partition back into the main Vista one!!..

Symantec™ Norton Internet Security™ 2009 (60 days live update) - Un-Installed immediatly I turned on the Laptop and installed Avast Pro instead!!..

Everything else is as it came from the factory!!.. apart from the addition of my installs (AutoCAD 2009, Corel, Photoshop CS3 etc...)
 
My local 'Red Shirt' shop had both the 16" and 18.4" versions in over the weekend!!... and the 18.4" looks HOOOOOGE!!... next to the 16"... but I'm still happy I got the one I did!!.. if for nowt else its a lighter unit to lug around.. and my Laptop Ruck-Sac (made for 15.4" Laptops) wouldn't fit the HDX18, where my HDX16 fits quite snugly!!..

I'm not a gamer... so I've not run any games on it yet.. I think I've only got a copy of (the original) AvP and Lemmings 3D ( :D ) I might see if either of em run tonight!!... I do (sometimes) have a play in Second Life with the Graphics on High/Extreme and sitting on the 'Beach' watching the 'Sea' I get no Lag at all!!!..

It does however, run AutoCAD 2009 (a notorious Graphics and Memory Hog) seamlessly!... Photoshop etc... are a breeze!!... and of course 1080p material (be it on Bluray or Hard Drive) run without a single hic-up!!...

I've so far not heard the fan running.. unless I stick my head right ontop of the keyboard!!... and it gets no where as hot as my old Athlon4 (1Ghz old skool) laptop!!...

I'll post a few Core-Temp etc... screenies later!!..

Sim :)
 
Which version of AutoCAD??.. every version up to 2008 could run easily on a standard P4 (2.4Ghz) with about 1Gb RAM... 2009 however will struggle on a P4 2.4 (I know this as I've got one at work and its a Dog!!) and anything less than 2Gb RAM (DDR2 preferably) will struggle!!...

2009 runs like a dream on the HDX16.. but then with a Dual Core 2.26 CPU and 4Gb DDR2-RAM... I'd expect it to!!... :D

Plus the 64bit version of AutoCAD is sooooo much faster than any other version I've used... Apart from the 'Old Skool' DOS versions (I've been using AutoCAD since R4 in DOS)...
 
Yay... Another one!... Which model did you get??... Mines the HDX16-1005EA... but theres the 1010EA... and now the 1101EA just to confuse things (I think thats got a 2.4Ghz CPU!!)..

I don't mind Vista!... wish it was 7 though!!.. I'm loving the Beta on my Old Clunker!!..
 
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