Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: hp, adds, amd | Themes: Business Notebooks
- 1. HP's Compaq Nx6125
- 2. HP's Compaq Nx6125, Continued
- 3. Case And Connectivity
- 4. Long Battery Life, Continued
- 5. Very Clear Labeling Of The Ports And Connectors
- 6. Very Clear Labeling Of The Ports And Connectors, Continued
- 7. Even More Ports? - A Docking Station!
- 8. A Bright, High Contrast Display, But Imprecise Fixed Backlight And Uneven Illumination
- 9. An Integrated X300 Graphics Core Is Perfectly Adequate For Office Applications
- 10. Keyboard And Displays
- 11. Onboard WLAN And PAN Module (Bluetooth)
- 12. Audio: Improved Microphone Position And Good Sound
- 13. There Is Whisper-soft Operation Most Of The Time
- 14. The Integrated Fingerprint Sensor And Security Suite
- 15. The Integrated Fingerprint Sensor And Security Suite, Continued
- 16. The Integrated Fingerprint Sensor And Security Suite, Continued
- 17. Benchmarks And Settings
- 18. The Compaq Nx6125 And The Competition
- 19. Battery Tests
- 20. Charging Times
- 21. Games
- 22. Games Direct X9
- 23. 3DMark05 (Synthetic DirectX 9 Benchmark)
- 24. PCMark04 (Synthetic Benchmark For CPU And RAM)
- 25. DivX Encoding With Auto Gordian Knot (mpeg 4 Encoding)
- 26. Lame MP3 Encoding
- 27. Sysmark 2004 SE (Office System Benchmark)
- 28. Summary
- 29. More on this topic
5. Very Clear Labeling Of The Ports And Connectors
HP has garnered well-earned praise again for their labeling of ports and connectors with the nx6125. The high-contrast symbols on the top side of the housing shows clearly where each connector is located.
Clear labeling of the ports on the top side of the housing
In the majority of notebooks, the labeling is only shown on the side of the housing. If you are looking for a particular port, then you have to tip or turn the machine. The user can't clearly see where the port is situated from above.
On the right hand side you have a DVD burner from LG and the connection for the internal 56K modem.
Where optical drives are concerned, HP has attached a dual-layer burner from LG. Now DVDs can be burned at up to 8x, and DVD RWs up to 4x. Unlike the Compaq nc8230, the burner of the nx6125 is fixed in place. That means it can't be replaced by another hard drive like the nc8230 can.
The monitor socket, one Firewire and two USB 2.0 ports and the audio socket are placed outside on the left.
As a special feature, the nx6125 comes with an Express Card 54 slot and a PC card slot. Express-Card is the new I/O card standard for notebooks and desktop PCs and should overtake the card bus standard in the medium term. Express cards will be available in two different sizes.
From left to right: Card bus PC card, Express Card|54 and Express Card|34
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