HP 18 inch blue laptop HDX-18 detailed evaluation

Evaluation comment
HP HDX18 is HP a high-end home audio and video entertainment application flagship new book, the top of T9600 4GB processor, memory, hard disk 320GB 7200 rpm, the 512MB memory 9600MGT was alone, in addition, a Blu-ray drive, 802.11a/g/n wireless, Bluetooth, and with all the. In addition to configuration on the tough performance outside, most attract sb.'s attention is the 18 inch mirror widescreen design, resolution of 1920x1080, to perfect HD Audio experience.
HP HDX18 multimedia entertainment notebook, which is different from the previous HDX series. It has a built-in 16:9 widescreen LCD panel, integrated high-quality auxiliary bass speaker and innovative multimedia touch control plate, HP HDX18 showed stable performance, and a series of configuration is also in line with the price tag. If you choose a desktop replacement notebook computer, it should configure large screen, high performance processors and supports 1080p playback and have a strong game performance alone significantly, then the HP HDX18 is a compelling choice.

HP appearance on HDX18
At first glance, HP HDX18 body appearance can be found with the Pavilion style, the biggest difference is the different size, shell portion HDX with HP 's latest design, irregular curve design, piano paint process bring out the texture pattern of the true to life likeness.
HP HDX18 work very strong stability, add local mellow miter corner design, has a good impact resistance capacity. Top cover hardness is very good, although the 18 inch widescreen LCD display, but press the top and no obvious sinking phenomenon, at the same time the LCD screen is also no obvious water ripple, liquid crystal panel is in place to protect. Open the upper cover can be seen within the HP HDX18 paint on the inner surface, also using the paint material pattern. Screen keyboard mapping out completely, so the design is very beautiful.


HP HDX18 interface layout
HP HDX-18 open the upper cover can be seen after the great momentum, 18 inch wide screen liquid crystal gives extremely broad visual effects, to support the resolution of 1920x1080. The screen frame is relatively narrow, like narrow side friend should like HP HDX-18 the details of the design style, full screen 16:9 the golden ratio, high-definition 1920x1080 Full HD resolution easily play HD video.
The 18 HP HDX left interface : from left to right, lock computer, VGA interface, RJ45 interface Ethernet interface port replicator, HDMI HD output interface, E-SATA interface, USB2.0 interface, the 1394 interface, and Express Card.
The 18 HP HDX right interface : from left to right, MIC input, audio output, linear input, USB2.0 interface, DVD Blu-ray recordable CD-ROM, 1 USB2.0 interface.
The 18 HP HDX front-end interface, the right side is an infrared receiving device, the left is an all-in-one card reader.
HP HDX 18 built-in 1300000 megapixel camera and lights indicate, is convenient for users to use, or the actual video call, the effect of good. The camera and the display screen plane at a certain angle, thus to ensure the best visual angle at the same time, framing camera can capture the complete portrait, double MIC design improves the sound collection sensitivity, allowing users in the chat room won't like that look right and left Dan Maike.


HP HDX18 operation experience
In the 18 room temperature environment running around 2 small conventional tests, HP HDX-18 keyboard surface of the regional temperature as shown in the figure, the highest temperature peak is located in the middle area of the keyboard, the highest temperature of the hard disk area maintained at 41 degrees. Can see, HP HDX-18 in cooling temperature is high.
Keyboard with touchpad, metal paint, all silver one color, touch panel on both sides there are greens totem design, looks very good. HP Pavilion DV4 keyboard is very reasonable, not only the standard keyboard, keyboard right still acquired small keyboard area, and fully consistent desktop keyboard. For the HP HDX larger size, suitable for home instead of desktop computer use, so design of keyboard for desktop users.
HP HDX-18 standard keyboard, keyboard style extension of the DV series of consistent style, adhering to the " HP consistent good work, button adopts the grinding process, it will be very good, and the adoption of the arc design, in the use of the keyboard when more comfortable, smooth. Key broad, key-way moderate, and not because the bond distance of unreasonable misoperation, unique keyboard design makes a whole lot of luxury fashion, but the keyboard feel compared to the previous hp products slightly hard.
HP Pavilion DV4 shortcut keys are mainly distributed in the three part, above the keyboard shortcuts for Quickplay and volume control; Fn keyboard shortcut key combinations; and the touch panel above the touch plate close buttons, can say the number and function are very complete. At the same time in the visual effect above the keyboard shortcut keys, touch lamp effect is very cool, very impressive, for example the mute button and other buttons, more two lights to display different state, very user-friendly.
HP HDX touch panel design with previous models is similar, is used and a wrist rest panel similar bright coating, just lost a smooth and textured effect. At the same time the touchpad design about up and down area, convenient browsing webpage and document. Prior to this we have been criticized for touch panel key distance too deep, HP HDX have been well improved, touch panel key process is significantly shortened, but the key handle is like the keyboard, a little hard.


HP HDX18 audio experience
HP HDX-18 positioning in the audio and video entertainment natural sound effect not to be careless, HP HDX-18 uses the following years auto LAN-STAR sound, its performance is satisfactory, resonant voice open, the volume is very large, and treble pure sound clear, alto and bass under saturated, potential of a foot, generally comparable to those of the market two hundred or three hundred yuan notebook external speaker.
In the HD broadcast in high-definition playback test, test, we chose 2 mainstream top format HD video, do not use the MPlayer software for playback, and observe the screen smooth degree and CPU occupancy rate. The results were quite good, during playback start large programs will not cause play pause.


HP HDX18 weight and configuration
HP HDX-18 Duo T9400 by Core 2 CPU, chip set for Intel GM45+ICH9M, GeForce 9600M GT memory card with 512MB GDDR2, memory maximum support 4GB memory, hard disk 320G the maximum load of 2 block 320GB, Windows Vista Ultimate pre-installed operating system. Interface substantially identical, equipped with USB 2 ×3, ExpressCard/54 slots, HDMI output, fingerprint identification, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR, Gigabit Ethernet, network cameras, modems, /MMC/ /xD Card SD card memory stick slot, voice input and output, battery uses 8 core 7300 milli ampere hour lithium ion battery.


HP HDX-18 basic hardware configuration
Processor: Intel Core2 DuoT9400 ( Penryn ) ( 2.4G )
Cache: 6M L2
Front side bus: 1066MHz FSB
The main chip group: Intel GM45+ICH9M
Memory: 3G DDR2 667
Graphics: nVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT
VRAM: independent memory 512MB
Display: 18 " inch mirror LCD widescreen, 16:9 ratio, resolution: 1920 x 1080
Sound card: IDT 92HD71B7
Hard disk: disk 640GB ( 5400 to SATA-II interface 8MB cache)
Optical drive: DVD-RAM
Wireless network: Intel Wireless WiFi Link 5100
Network: Realtek RTL8168C
Communication: Motorola SM56 Data Fax Modem
Battery: 8 core lithium battery 7300 milliamperes
Weight: the weight of 1.161Kg, weight 1.576kg 317g travel, battery weight
File system: Windows Vista