With this kind of screen real estate there’s room to place two word documents side by side, so word processing, spreadsheets and browsing are easy. It shares the same resolution as the Dell, too, with a nearly-full-HD 1,680 by 1,050 pixels providing ample space for any application. Much of this bulk is down to the huge 20.1in TFT, which impressively gives this notebook a display as large as our A-listed lifestyle desktop PC, the Dell XPS One. Aside from the sheer weight, no bag we’ve seen is large enough to house it, and it’s unlikely that anyone bar Geoff Capes could tolerate the weight. Unlike some of the other unusually large notebooks we’ve reviewed, such as the Dell XPS M1730 and the Acer Aspire 8920, which are merely inconvenient or uncomfortable to carry, this is impossible to lug for any distance.
Strange, then, that HP’s latest ‘portable’ is the largest and heaviest laptop we have ever seen.Īt 7kg in weight, even without the beefy 1.2kg charger, it’s a struggle to lift this behemoth. Fastest, lightest, smallest, these are all superlatives that laptop manufacturers are keen to see associated with their products.
