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Compaq Compaq nx6125 Notebook
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- Included Devices
Storage
| Total HD Size | 80 GB |
| Optical Drive Type | DVD±RW |
| Optical Drive Speed | 4 |
| Removable Optical Drive | No |
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| Number of Media Slots | 4 |
Battery
| Number of Included Batteries | 1 |
| Standard Number of Batteries | 1 |
| Type of Batteries | Lithium ion |
| Vendor Rated Battery life | 325 |
Networking
| Bluetooth | Yes |
| Included network card | Gigabit ethernet |
| Modem Type | V.90 |
| Wireless LAN Type | 802.11a/g |
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Pros
Well-equipped, offers good performance
Cons
Dull screen
Bottom Line
Business unit has a slightly dull screen but does everything else right. A six-in-one card reader sits up front.
HP Compaq nx6125
Compaq nx6125 Notebook Review, by Carla Thornton October 29, 2005
The no-nonsense, AMD-powered HP Compaq nx6125 should be particularly interest small businesses. It has an all-black case, weighs under 6 pounds, and costs just $1245, including two layers of security beyond Windows passwords. The first layer is a biometric fingerprint reader, embedded in the lower right palm rest; the second is a Smart Card reader option. The latter works in combination with an optional ExpressCard/54 slot ($69 extra), which you can order in place of the PC Card slot.
In addition to its fixed DVD burner and full set of connections (including FireWire and TV-out ports), the nx6125 has a six-in-one media card reader. The reader's location front and center makes popping cards in and out easy. Another handy extra: it conveniently labels the card types it accepts (namely, everything but CompactFlash) on top of the case and next to the slots.
The nx6125's audio sounds surprisingly good for such an inexpensive laptop, and the notebook's dedicated volume buttons are easy to adjust. The sensibly laid-out keyboard features highly legible blue-and-white lettering, a touchpad with scroll zone, and ridged mouse buttons. A handful of shortcut buttons above the keyboard add creature comforts: One launches your favorite application with a customized power setting; another provides a collection of shortcuts to various HP utilities. A wireless communications button combines control for Bluetooth and Wi-Fi--both are either on or off. Separate buttons would have been nice, but one is better than none.
The nx6125's 3.4-hour battery life is about average. HP says that you can more than double your battery life by snapping its optional $129 eight-cell travel battery onto the bottom of the notebook.
We haven't tested any other notebook equipped with a 2.2-GHz Turion 64 ML-40 CPU and 1GB of RAM. The closest configurations we've seen--a Compaq Presario M2000 and an Acer Ferrari that were equipped with the 1.8-GHz Turion 64 ML-34 chip--earned scores of 73 and 85, respectively. The nx6125 posted a score of 81, indicating that it is plenty fast for most applications.
To upgrade the notebook's memory to its 2GB maximum, you'd simply unscrew the bottom panel to reach the two slots. A bottom connector accepts either HP's $179 basic docking station, which adds a few additional ports (DVI, serial, and parallel), or the $279 advanced docking station, which compensates for the nx6125's lack of a modular bay by providing an enclosure for a second optical drive or second hard drive.
My only beefs are minor. The nx6125's 15-inch screen seemed a tad dull, and I missed having a USB port on the right side of the case. That said, I was pleasantly impressed with the nx6125's Getting Started printed booklet; a thorough electronic manual complements the booklet.
Upshot: This basic black business laptop offers extra security for a reasonable price.
Carla Thornton
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PCWorld Lab Results
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Performance Comparison with Similar Laptops
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Performance
| ACD Systems ACDSee | 674 |
| Adobe Photoshop | 370 |
| Adobe Premiere | 500 |
| Ahead Nero | 1153 |
| Battery Life (Office Applications) | 3:25 |
| Discreet 3ds Max DirectX | 376 |
| Discreet 3ds Max OpenGL | 664 |
| Microsoft Office XP | 571 |
| Mozilla | 452 |
| Musicmatch Jukebox | 502 |
| Number of Included Batteries | 1 |
| Return to Castle Wolfenstein, 1024 by 768, 16-Bit | 38.33 |
| Return to Castle Wolfenstein, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit | 25.43 |
| Return to Castle Wolfenstein, 1280 by 1024, 32-Bit | 16 |
| Roxio VideoWave | 359 |
| Unreal Tournament, 1024 by 768, 16-Bit | 83.67 |
| Unreal Tournament, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit | 45.37 |
| Unreal Tournament, 1280 by 1024, 32-Bit | 25.99 |
| Windows Media Encoder | 425 |
| WinZip | 477 |
| World Bench 5 Score | 81 |
| World Bench 5 Word Score | Fair |
WorldBench Tests
| Multitasking | 775 |
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