How is HP's tablet Notebooks??

A friend of mine is looking for a tablet notebook with good configuration. I see that HP's tx2500 only comes with AMD processor topping out at 2.4GHz. In comparison Lenovo's X series tablet notebook offers upto C2D 1.86GHz. Can you comment which one might be better??
The use is going to be business as well as personal. Feature's wise it should be reliabe and offer support as well as features. Is there any other manufacturer that might offer a better tablet notebook??

Thanks for help.

 

I am speaking from overall knowledge of computers, not the experience of owning both computers. People keep claiming that AMDs are bad - they claim fallacies like they exert a lot more heat, they run slower, etc. I, in fact, was one of the AMD skeptics, but now owning a AMD, I find little difference to the Intel machines. Therefore, I'd go with pure speed which would be the HP tx2500.

If you would like to see more tablets, you might want to check out Fujitsu (ask about it in the Fujitsu subforum). The other choices are the "business-class" tablets which range from the upper $1000s and beyond. Those are primarily for business apps., operations, etc.

 

Actaully brmuchim, I have seen several complaints of the TX2000Z having mediocre battery life and especially heat problems. I really would like it to have an Intel option at least.

The HP Section of the TabletPCReview.com forums have a great TX1000/TX2000 community.

http://forum.tabletpcreview.com/forumdisplay.php?f=8

 

I wouldn't buy an hp tablet. Those things get hot enough in a 14inch package lol.

 

The tx2500 was quite nice for a tablet when i tried it out. For a Puma platform with a powerful IGP, it performs well

There has been abit of heating problems from what ive read. I didnt notice much chassis heat when i tried it out. Would be nice if they had an Intel counter-part.

My only complaint is the usual grainy tablet screen.

 

The tx2000 and earlier use NVIDIA chipsets that aren't nearly as good as the tx2500's AMD/ATI chipset. A tx2500 with Turion Ultra (better power management than earlier Turions) would be far superior.

 

Yeah, I've been very happy with my TX2500. Runs great, will blow out some warm air and get a bit warm near the CPU output in high performance mode when pushed, but never had any issues related to heat... and I play Crysis Warhead on mine for the better part of random afternoons at times.

Good tablet, has both active and passive touch screen, bluetooth, wifi N, removable DVD burner, and as mentioned the great little ATI 3200HD IGP.

Hard to beat for the money, can get a great system for under a grand.

 

If your on a budget i would go with the good old hp tc1100 lots of them on ebay for next to nothing

I just got one from ebay intel centeno 1.1ghz 80 gb hard drive wifi bluetooth clip on keyboard and leather case gforce 4 32mb dedicated video 10" screen so very portable all for £130 now thats a good deal

It works excellent screen is easy to use cant fault the little thing

 

Being a long time HP tablet user, I'm going to say that I really don't like HP's consumer tablet lineup (tx series). Their business tablets are very well built however. You should look into the 2710p or 2730p.

 

I have the 2710p it's awesome.

I always only recomment business hardware, not consumer hardware. they get more polish, more testing. they're better from all the companies (dell, hp, ...)

 

Hi Dave,

Using a 2710p with 4 gb of ram for work and Vista. I find it sluggish, more so then my old Dell C640 that I used as a backup at home (512k ram, XP, old 1.8g single intel processor).

What have you done to make it so fast? Did you remove a lot of the preloaded HP ware?

Tx

 

Bump ........

 

I have a tx1000z and a tx2500z for my kid. There's also a new model a tx2600 with more touch screen feature. The tx series are for budget minded individuals. The tablets does emit very warm exhaust when running on high performance mode. The regular battery lasts for 2 hours and the extended one for 3 hours.. depending on the setting... balanced mode, internet, occasional video online. The more expensive models are more robusts but are heavier. The tx series are the most inexpensive tablets on the market today. Using the AMD chip is fine. No real significant speed difference from the Intel counterpart. On a side note.. my kid plays WOW on his.

 

I've only played around with the TX notebooks in stores, but I've used both an HP Compaq tc4400 (old) and an EliteBook 2730p at school.

The 2730p is incredibly well-built and solid. The screen is very nice, and the wacom tablet works very well. The keyboard and pointstick are great, but the touchpad is too small and too easy to brush accidentally (you can disable it, thankfully). The fan seems very quiet. I have no clue what the battery life is like, and I can't really test the performance on them (the tablets aren't mine; they're kept in certain classrooms).

BTW, the 2730p is almost identical to the previous 2710p, except the 2730p adds a touchpad (and has an updated platform, of course)

The older tc4400 tablets didn't hold a candle to the 2730p tablets in terms of build quality. The keyboard and touchpad was slightly better, but the pointstick was worse and the case warped and flexed very easily compared to the 2730p. The fan was louder, too.

I would definitely look into HP tablets, especially the EliteBook 2730p.