HP Pavilion Ze4805us

Pros: Legacy ports! Good keyboard. Solid design. Reasonable battery life. Great school machine.

Cons: USB 1.1 only. 1024x768 LCD only. Not recommended for lap use.

The Bottom Line: Competent laptop; not a current model but perfectly capable of meeting the needs of a student, teacher or writer in 2006. Excellent value for money.

Review: Others have covered the basic specs very well, so I won't re-summarize them here. I bought this machine for heavy-duty writing (I write technical books) and embedded systems development. For me, the legacy ports were a BIG PLUS in the latter endeavor. I ...

Pros: Speed, reliability, quality

Cons: Battery life (not bad though), warm on your lap

Review: Bought an HP laptop with a Celeron processor and was not at all impressed with its performance. Returned that one & got the ze4805us with an AMD XP 2800 processor. It blows the Celeron away and was less expensive! The 4805 only came with 256 Meg of ...

Pros: Great price, decent horsepower, 54b/g WiFi

Cons: Out of date ports, heat, hard drive speed

The Bottom Line: Definitely recommended for the buyer on a budget. Especially good for students.

Review: I was in the market for a decent laptop to be able to use for my side business, event videography. I didn't want to spend a ton of money, because I do the bulk of my work on a high powered desktop in my home office. I just needed something to do some ...

Pros: pretty good speed

Cons: virus lover; heat

Review: This laptop gave me trouble from the start. It may be because I had a defective machine, but when I suggested that to HP and asked for my laptop to be replaced, my request was denied. It was a dumb move from the company. Had HP provided me with a more ...