If you're considering a wide-screen laptop for travel, the Compaq Presario V2000z belongs at the top of your list. At just 6.1 pounds, this compact unit is easier to carry than many competing wide-screen notebooks. With this notebook, you get power and quality in one package! Truly made with the end user in mind, this notebook has all the bells and whistles that most people ask for! You get hot styling, and the latest technology that you need. AMD's latest mobile processor technology delivers 32-bit performance today and can run tomorrow's 64-bit applications, in addition to offering enhanced virus protection.



Like most Compaq notebooks, the V2000Z's case colors are the ubiquitous black and silver, but its unusual grooved base looks cool and gives it extra traction. Well equipped for its price, the V2000Z features an 60GB Harddrive, a conveniently placed fixed DvD+CD-Writer Combo Drive, a six-in-one card reader, and two of its three USB ports on the right side of the case. Front audio jacks make plugging in headphones a snap. Three buttons atop the keyboard next to the Wi-Fi switch do a nice job of controlling volume, which pours from speaker outlets that wrap around the front corners.



The V2000z's bright WXGA screen is top-of-the-line and places 25 percent more pixels onscreen than a typical 15-inch XGA display, yet measures only 7.2-inches high, the same as a 12.1-inch display. The 1280 x 768 resolution will run two applications, like Word and Outlook, side by side. You'll still have to do some adjusting and scrolling in order to view two detailed windows side-by-side, but you'll see considerably more of your spreadsheets or graphics applications and their palettes on this relatively small laptop. Plus, HP’s BrightView technology provides high image clarity and vivid colors.



The combination of BrightView and the display’s 16:10 widescreen aspect ratio makes watching DVD’s a pleasure. Sound added to the movie experience, as the front-mounted Altec Lansing speakers sound noticeably fuller than the typical notebook



The feature liked most about this laptop is the AMD Turion64 processor and the ATI Radeon Express 200M using main memory. The basis of Turion 64 mobile technology is the new Turion 64 mobile processor, which AMD derived from its popular Athlon 64 CPU by lowering the chip's power consumption. Turion 64 chips fall into one of two categories: ML, which consumes less power (for longer battery life), and MT, which favors performance over power savings. Just as Intel calls Centrino a platform, AMD refers to Turion as a technology, and not merely a processor. Like Centrino, Turion includes a wireless transmitter (802.11a/g) as part of the package. Its 1800Mhz Hypertransport bus leaves the Centrino platform in the dust, and it's 64-bit ready, for forward-looking shoppers.



The ATI Radeon® Xpress 200M is the industry’s first PCI Express chipset for notebooks with AMD Turion™ 64 Mobile Technology. Radeon® Xpress 200M is built on a .13-micron process with 350MHz graphics core speed, and 128-bit system memory interface ensuring best-in-class graphics performance with mobile applications. The built-in graphics deliver double the bandwidth of AGP 8X. Without the shared-bus limitations of PCI, Radeon® Xpress 200M better controls bandwidth usage and data priority while multitasking real-time applications and video playback for an enhanced cinematic experience. Enhanced plug-and-play support frees on-the-go mobile users to hot-plug the latest external devices with greater reliability, making Radeon® Xpress 200M-based notebooks the dependable mobile platform for productivity and multimedia entertainment.<click here>



The freedom of mobile computing when and where you wants it thanks to a thin, light design, great battery life. This mobile powerhouse boasts a 1.8GHz AMD Mobile Turion Processor, 512MB DDR memory and a large 60Gb hard drive. Throw in the convenience of 802.11b/g wireless LAN plus a 6-in-1 Digital Media Reader and you’ve got a pretty impressive little laptop. And with all its fantastic components you can accomplish a myriad of play and work tasks. You can web surf, watch movies, burn and edit DVDs, listen to tunes, send email... and get lots of work done. Simply Sensational...