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(More customer reviews)This system is probably the best value on the market. You get all the features you want at a price you can afford without being worried if it's going to be completely obsolete within a couple of years. The 15" SXGA display is beautiful, the hard drive has more than enough room, the dvd will keep you entertained, and the CD-RW will let you rip your music and take it with you. Copious amount of memory and fast PIII processor keeps you speeding along. Also, you get three USB ports (two in back, one front-left-side), firewire port (back-right-side), integrated LAN and modem (both jacks near the firewire), TV out, monitor out, parallel port, audio out, microphone in (all in the back). Headphones (front-left). Also one Type II or III card slot (left side). Easy access one-touch buttons, reset button (missing on most laptops). Also the pointer touch pad has a scroll bar which makes it incredibly easy to scroll through documents (without having to try to make sure you stay on the right side of the pad)
Downsides (things that made it a 4 instead of 5):
There is no dedicated video memory. It is shared with the main memory at either 8, 16 or 32 megs. This doesn't really cause many problems with the system, but you may notice some slow down on really graphic intensive 3d games.
The DVD drive won't play @ 32 bit color. You have to down the display colors to 16-bit to watch movies (I actually had this trouble when I first got the computer, then it worked at 32-bit for a day, then it stopped).
When the fan comes on, it can be a little noisy, not too bad, but noticeable.
I expected more from the polk audio speakers. They sound like typical laptop speakers, a bit tinny, little crackle-pops every so often, and no bass whatsoever. You'll definitely want headphones when you're on the road and listening to cds, radio, etc;, invest in some inexpensivedesktop speakers for you house (something with a little bass and richness, but nothing fancy).
Things that weren't a show stopper for me:
No diskette drive. But you can get one for about 50, and the laptop comes with a 49.99 rebate on the drive if you buy one.
No mouse/keyboard input. Use a USB mouse if you're going to get one. I plan to buy a Numeric keypad, so it'll have to be USB. If you think you'll need a keyboard, you'll probably want to get a docking station anyway.
Would have liked to have had 2 PC Card inputs. there's room for it where the one slot is, so I don't know why they didn't put in in.
It's a great notebook. Consider the things I said, you can't beat this price with all these features.
happy shopping!
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HP has combined both work and play into one package with this ZT1180 laptop. Get your work done with a 1.2Ghz Intel Pentium III processor, 512MB SDRAM memory, and 40GB hard drive and then make the most of your play time with the DVD+CD-RW combo drive, spacious 15M-^T SXGA+ TFT display and Polk Audio speakers. Staying connected is also simple with an integrated 10/100 Ethernet to network with other PCs and a 56K V.90 modem to breeze around the Internet.
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