It’s been in the market for a lil over a week. The specs are fantastic. They’ve crammed in as much as possible and more… and the best part… extremely affordable as a business laptop / tablet.
It features a Finger print reader, Lightscribe DVD Writer, Bluetooth, 2 x IR Ports, Built-in Mic and 1.3MP Cam, 1GB DDR2 RAM, 120GB HDD, Nvidia Go 6150 and Vista Home Premium… and that’s just the base model!!! The best part is it comes with a swivel 12.1" Touch Sensitive Wide Screen and looks great… All this for 61k including taxes.
Dunno about you guys, but I think it’s really worth it.
1003au is 60k without tax. around 2.5 k tax would bring it upto 62.5k. My dealer agreed to give it to me at 61k.
Hope that sets the record straight
Regarding the performance… at the end of the day it all depends on usage. This would primarily be a business laptop and as such I don’t really see the need for extreme graphics and powerful processing. I still use my laptop for work… which is mainly presentations, documents, internet and movies while travelling. It’s perfect for that and even for some basic gaming. I like my hardware beautiful and this definitely fits the bill which is more than I can say for the Dells.
your dealer is taking you for a ride…Any self respecting dealer in Ritchie St. Chennai would give you a discount over the 59990/- and not 59990 + Tax - discount
Actually, if you like your hardware beautiful, you could also look at the Vaio C series which comes for ~60 K with a 13.3" screen and a T5500 proccy with GMA950
On a side note, th XPS 1210 is also quite elegant looking unlike the rather boxy looking Insprions which give Dell styling a bad name
haha… yes that is true. well yeah he just said my final landing price would be 61k. I was just putting it in perspective for everbody here without having to rack my brains with math
I’m aware of the sony’s, but somehow I like these new imprint finish HPs. Just a matter of taste and choice I guess.
Yeah, I was quite surprised as well. I thought I’d get somebody from the states to bring it down thinking that they might actually have Core 2 options. When I tried configuring the same 60k model, turns out it’s more expensive there than it is here if you go by conversion of a $ @ Rs. 45.
I think for the first time I’ve actually seen something tech related cheaper here than it would be in the states.
I’m getting the 1003AU in 2 days. I’m curious though; as mentioned above, my usage is limited to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Internet, Movies and occasional basic gaming. Would the 1GB ram that comes with it be enough for all that given, VIita’s rather high memory usage? I intend to use Aero Glass. So is this ok or is it going to be horribly slow?
Yeah that’s true. Apparetly at best using the 4 cell battery it can do about 2.5 hours. I’m gonna be getting the 6 cell with it as well so shouldn’t be too big a problem.
The battery issue has been fixed long ago and the performance of the Turion is only about 10% worse than the Core 2 Duo in most cases at the same clocks. I would still love to see this HP laptop in the 50-55k.
^^Considering the fact that the older core duo was ~5% faster than X2 clock to clock and that c2d is around 15-20% faster than core duo at same clocks, the performance difference between c2d and x2 is a lot more than 10% at identical clocks.
