Simple, plain and no flashy, as business line machine would be, still apply to the beginning of the new Latitude series, XT. At first sight, it looks like Thinkpad series of Dell indeed--solid construct, beautiful design (at least to me.)

This probably was the most innovative tablet PC so far since it was the first time capacitive touch was included. However, Dell's decision that chose ULV CPU instead of more powerful CPU like LV one might be a deal breaker for many people that looked over this machine.

This is named as HP Pavillion Entertainment PC. I can tell you that it really is what HP wants it to be. Even though it is quite a lot like Tablet PC, it just deserves to call Entertainment PC better. Getting to know this series a bit. It started at HP tx1000 which is based on AMD Turion X2 platform with a swivel screen & touch, passive digitizer, as a plus.

By the fact that I have 2 different configurations--highest and lowest possible. No only performance if tx2500z you will see, but you also see what is a difference between 2.0GHz, 250GB, 4-cell battery and 2.4GHz, 320GB, 6-cell battery. This is both synthetic & practical benchmarks to get all the idea how they perform and which suit you and your budget best.

Well start with build and design of tx2500z. Since it has HP logo on the lid, you know what you can expect. Some kind of imprint finish with glossy all over the machine that's HP design. I don't prefer glossy finish much, but that's not bad. We'll see later how it goes.