They come with an attractive and stylish design, loaded with a LightScribe dual-layer optical drive, also with a PCI Express slot, and a media-card reader with a multiformat function. But its 15. 4 inch screen show seems not bright, and the speakers also provide low sound. This is no doubt the affordable laptop which provides a solid performance and inclusive with a set of excellent characteristics for its low price.

The Presario V5000Z is made with a 2GHz Turion 64 ML-37 processor, DDR SDRAM of 1GB (1×1,024MB), also with an ATI Mobility Radeon Xpress graphics card of 128MB of VRAM, a hard drive of 100GB spinning at 4,200rpm, and using Microsoft Windows XP Professional as its operating system. It has a 15. 4-inch Bright View show screen, a DVD burner, an inbuilt 54g 802. 11a/b/g networking card with Bluetooth, and then a standard 6-cell battery.

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The 6-cell battery was tested and it turns out to have a 2. 4 hours performance.

Although the V5000Z laptop is a small heavy for carrying around, we still advise you to get a 12-cell battery which will have an extended battery life than that of 6-cell.

For a student or someone who is budget conscious, the HP Compaq Presario V5000Z is ideal, packed with numerous features and a excellent performance for its cost.

If you want to buy a cheap notebook with multimedia-packed features, then we advise you to go for the Hp Compaq Presario V5000Z.