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HP Pavilion dv6t Series Notebook PC
February 23rd, 2009 / 14 Comments » / by AF8AB
Brought to You by B@D: Some day of February, 2:13 Am
The Laptop
Its 2Am and a cold night of January and this hot guy brought me the Dv6t, Just like this.
WHAT IS IT?
The HP Pavilion dv6t is the middle earth between the dv5t and dv7t series notebooks. It is a full redesign that includes many new features. The dv6t is based on the latest Intel "Montevina" Centrino 2 mobile technology and is available with powerful dedicated graphics.
My HP Pavilion dv6t-1045ee notebook has the following specifications:
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- Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 processor (2.4GHz/ 1066MHz FSB/ 3MB L2)
- 16.0" Diagonal High Definition HP Brightview Infinity Display
- 3GB DDR2-800 RAM (1x 2GB + 1x 1GB)
- 320GB 5400RPM hard drive
- Nvidia GeForce 9200M-GS w/ 512MB DDR2 dedicated video card
- Lightscribe Super Multi DVD Writer (+/-R +/-RW) with Double Layer support
- Altec Lansing® speakers
- HP Pavilion WebCam with Integrated Microphone
- HP Mobile Remote Control
- Broadcom 802.11b/g wireless + Bluetooth
- Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium with Service Pack 1 (32-bit)
- High-capacity 6-cell Li-ion battery
Design
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- The design of the HP Pavilion dv6t is simply beautiful. It is sleek and ultramodern, with tasteful accents. The entire notebook is streamlined, and no matter what angle you look at it, it looks great. This notebook has a "soft" design with all corners rounded off. Looking at the side of the notebook, the backside is a semicircle, and the front curves up like the bow of a boat. When the display is shut, the back of the notebook has a raked look to it, which is appealing. The display only has one large hinge, which adds to the sleek look.
Two general colors are used – silver and black. All of the viewable surfaces are glossy and reflective, though not to the extent of the Toshiba notebooks with the Fusion finish. The dull silver palmrest areas are reflective in a sense that you can see a foggy outline of yourself in them. You can see yourself clearly in the metallic finished areas, and also in the black glossy areas. HP calls its glossy finish "liquid metallic".
The entire display portion of the notebook is glossy black, including the hinge. The palmrest and base of the notebook is silver and metallic. I like how HP clearly separated the colors on this machine, as it looks well-matched.
The base of the notebook has two variations of silver – dull silver and silver metallic. The metallic finish is basically like a mirror. The surrounding edge, sides, touchpad, and media controls strip are all metallic finished while the rest is dull silver. I think the design combo is attractive and classy.
Imprinted in the palm rests and the back of the display is a subtle mesh pattern, which is much more reserved than the imprint designs on previous HP notebooks. The new finish gives the dv6t a detailed appearance. The mesh pattern only comes out when the notebook is in a lighted area, and will not be seen unless inspected from a few feet away.
The status lights for power, battery charge, and hard disk activity are located in the front edge of the notebook, below the left palm rest. It is easy to see them when the display is closed, and the indicator labels above each light are even imprinted on the top of the display. That is a nice touch.
One more area of the notebook with a light is actually on the back of the display – the Illuminated HP logo lights up, which looks great and is another nice touch.
Build Quality
The notebook itself is made of high-strength plastic and feels solid. There is absolutely no flex in the palm rests or surrounding areas, and the base of the notebook resists flexing like a two-by-four. No part of this notebook is flimsy or of questionable material quality. The plastic is quite thick, especially around the palm rests, which is welcome.
The glossy finish of the notebook is quite durable; I have accidentally swiped a rough object against the palmrest several times, and it has not even shown minor scratches. The back of the display is the same way. The glossy coating looks and feels thick. This notebook is more durable than it looks.
The Infinity display is basically a large piece of clear plastic over the entire display. It makes the display look like it has no borders. I have the Infinity finish on my notebook. While it makes the notebook look sleeker and more modern, it does increase the amount of reflections over a standard glossy finish.
Speakers
the dv6 series features two Altec Lansing stereo speakers. These speakers are a definite step up from standard generic notebook speakers in terms of sound quality. The mid-range (vocals) is quite good for a notebook, as are the highs. Voices come through clear. The sound is more enveloping than typical notebook sound.
There is more than one way to get sound out of the dv6t. Below the front edge of the notebook are two headphone jacks, which are static free. Audio can also come through the built-in HDMI port – it is useful for connecting to external HDTVs.
Media Remote & Webcam
HP includes a small remote with the dv6t, which fits in the ExpressCard/54 slot. There are many multimedia controls on the remote. This remote is designed to be used in media center. Overall, a handy and useful component.
The built-in webcam is of average quality, but then again not much can be expected from a built-in webcam. It shows a decent amount of detail – the person on the other end of the line will easily be able to see you.
Input and Output Ports
Left Side: VGA, docking station connector, Ethernet, HDMI, eSATA/USB combo, USB, IEEE 1394 mini-Firewire, ExpressCard/54 slot (top), media card reader (bottom) (reads SD, MS/Pro, MMC, XD)
Right Side: Optical drive, 2x USB, 56k modem,fillers for TV tuner, Kensington lock slot, power jack.
Front: IR receiver, microphone, 2x headphone jack.
Back: Nothing to see here!, Backs aren’t worth seeing everywhere 
It is important to note that the dv6t includes not only USB ports, but also an eSATA port. An eSATA support is basically an external Serial ATA port for an ultra-fast connection to external hard drives. HP was thoughtful enough to make the eSATA port double as a USB port, bringing the total number of USB ports on the dv6t to four.
The dv6t’s HDMI port is great for connecting to external HDTVs, as it can transmit both digital video and surround sound audio.
Operating System & Software
HP offers 32- and 64-bit versions of Vista on the dv6t. Home Premium is standard, while Ultimate is available as an upgrade. I have Home Premium 32-bit SP1 on my machine.
HP unfortunately pre-loads a good deal of bloatware into the factory hard drive image.
Performance:
The HP dv6t meets my needs perfectly. It is an extremely well-rounded 16-inch multimedia notebook at a great price point. A beautiful design, superb input devices, a great screen, and good gaming performance are the major highlights of this machine. I have no second thoughts about giving the dv6t my full recommendation.
Some Eye Candy 
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Thanks to proXima / Ch|LL / Saad Arif & Fahad Arif / The Pindi Guys / The Guy from Islamabad / The friend in Dubai & to the very special person. My Dad
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Nokia 5800 XpressMusic a.k.a TUBE – Review
January 26th, 2009 / 3 Comments » / by AF8AB
Tested by B@D & proXima. Reviewed by AFI , January 16th 2009.
Thanks: VEENI & CH|LL for their help.
Today we got our Hands On! The new Nokia 5800 XpressMusic a.k.a TUBE.
Here are a few highlighted features:
- 3.2″ 16M-color TFT LCD 16:9 touchscreen display (360 x 640 pixels)
- Symbian S60 5th edition
- ARM 11 369 MHz CPU, 128 MB of SDRAM memory
- 3.2 megapixel autofocus camera with dual-LED flash
- VGA video recording at 30fps
- Dual-band 3G with HSDPA support
- Quad-band GSM support
- Wi-Fi
- Capable GPS receiver and Nokia Maps 2.0 Touch
- microSD card memory expansion, ships with an 8GB card
- TV out
- FM radio with RDS
- Bluetooth and USB v2.0
- 3.5mm standard audio jack
- Excellent audio quality
- Landscape on-screen virtual QWERTY keyboard
- Proximity sensor for screen auto turn-off
- Accelerometer sensor for automatic UI rotation and motion-based gaming
- Rich retail package
- Affordable price
- Office document viewer
- OVI and MySpace integration (direct image and video uploads)
First seen In The Dark Knight, It was a highly anticipated music phone because it’s the first touch screen S60 5th Edition Based Phone. What that means is that, You can use your body parts (e.g A Finger) or the stylus or the plectrum ( Guitar Pick Thing ) included inside the box, to play with the TUBE. The Tube’s variety of input options, including the handwriting mode, mean it will appeal to a lot of people: the two QWERTY modes are rather nice, and the full screen version is nice and accurate. The keypad input method is large and comfortable too, so newbie’s to the touch screen world will feel right at home thanks to the hepatics.
The sound is amazing as its loaded with the best stereo speakers offered In any Cell Phone. It has a 3.5mm generic stereo jack to use it with any headphones, speaker system or car deck with an AUX option. Bundled headphones are very decent and have a crisp sound quality but if you are going to gym with those ones plugged, you’re not going to like them very much. Instead you can get any iPod ear buds available under Rs. 1000.
Screen Resolution is a 640 x 480 Pixel 16 Million Color screen, Now what that offers is the High Definition for Pocket entertainment. There is a deck also to hold up the phone if you want to watch something during load shedding ( that’s the case if you are in Pakistan ). A TV Cable is also included so you can hook your 5800 to your TV as well.
The camera is a 3.2 MP Carl-Zeiss Optics based Lens with a secondary camera on front used for 3G. As there isn’t 3G network yet in our country we use our secondary camera as a dirty mirror. The Tube’s 3.2MP Carl Zeiss-ed lens is a great little snapper… the phone takes great pictures, and is a cinch to use as well. Indoor performance isn’t that good.
Nokia has included some spare parts in the box, Such as a extra stylus pen. A Pouch with little holes in it. Some no good manual guides. Also included in the package is a Free 40 Track Comes With Music voucher that you can use to download 40 Free songs from Nokia Music Store.
Over all, If you have it, your fellow workers, your siblings, even your mates can get jealous of it. Its easy to get along with. You just need sometime to get used to the key less experience that you are going to get in this model. If one says it’s a Rival to iPhone, I guess it Isn’t. There are many solid reasons for that. Now can S60 compare to iPhone OS X ? No! Another rival that you may think of could be the Android G1, we haven’t got our hands on a G1 device till now, but that’s better than Nokia’s S60 Platform as well. Anyways, We love new Nokia phones and we will continue this habit.
Camera Quality Benchmark
January 1st, 2009 / 1 Comment » / by Faizan
Today we’d some spare time to compare camera quality of all cams we’ve. Actually this was to test camera quality of my LG KF510 that i got 2 days back. We compared it against DC-W50 in 3.15Mp mode (There is not any comparison between these two but that’s all we’ve). We didn’t miss this opportunity to test cam of Aftab’s new Nokia 5320Xm with my old Nokia 6120c both of them comes with 2.0MP cmos cam.
Test Equipment 
- Cyber-shot® DSC-W50 Digi Cam 6MP .. ( used 3Mp mode for comparison with auto ISO and AF) (Aftab)
- LG KF510 3.15Megapixel Autofocus (Faizan)
- Nokia 5320 XpressMusic: 2.0 Megapixel (Aftab)
- Nokia 6120 Classic: 2.0 Megapixel (Faizan)
Location: Model Town Park 3:00PM
Test Equipment
Tree View from distant
Upgrading from 7600GS to 7900GT
August 30th, 2008 / No Comments » / by Faizan
I just Upgraded my PC’s GPU from Geforce 7600GS to Geforce 7900GT
7600 GS Specs:
12 pixel pipelines
5 vertex pipelines
128-bit wide memory bus
256MB of onboard GDDR II
Clock speed 400MHz
MSI 7600GS
7900GT-VT2D256E Specs:
24 pixel pipelines
8 vertex pipelines
278 million transistors
256-bit memory interface
256MB of onboard GDDR III
Clock speed 450MHz
MSI 7900GT/GTO
Test System Specs:
AMD Athlon 64 3200+
MSI K8n Neo 4 Platinum
1GB Corsair Value Ram DDR I
500GB WD SATA II 16MB buffer
Cooler Mast 460 Watts PSU
Head to Head
MSI 7600GS Benchmark 3D Mark 2005
MSI 7900GT/GTO enchmark 3D Mark 2005
WD500AAKS Benchmark
June 17th, 2008 / No Comments » / by Faizan
I just got my new Western Digital 500G HDD with 16MB cache. I’ve done a quick benchmark to compare it with my old WD2500KS.
WD500AAKS HD Tach Benchmark
WD2500KS HD Tach Benchmark
WD500AAKS HD Tune Benchmark
WD2500KS HD Tune Benchmark
32-Bit VS 64-Bit Performance Benchmark
August 19th, 2007 / No Comments » / by Faizan
Now a days most of Desktop computers have capability to do 64-Bit processing. As 64-Bit computers and operating systems are around for a while but most of home users still use 32-bit OS on their 64-bit machines. The reason for this can be less availability of 64-bit drivers for old hardware, and most of current 64-bit softwares does not give enough performance boost over their 32-bit versions.
Back in january 2006, I got got my first 64-bit system. In order to check how much current 64-bit application gives performance boost over 32 bit-applications I have done a lot of benchmarking on my system. As I’ve both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Matlab for both Windows and linux so I choosed it to benchmark my system for both 32-bit & 64-bit Windows & Linux.
- AMD Athlon64 3200+ (Winchester)
- MSI K8N NEO4 Platinum
- Nvidia Geforce 7600GS 256MB
- 1 GB Corsair Value Ram (2.5-3-3-8)
- WD 250GB SATA II 16MB Buffer
- Sony DRU-830A Dvd Burner
- LU LAPACK. Floating point, regular memory access.
- FFT Fast Fourier Transform. Floating point, irregular memory access.
- ODE Ordinary diff. eqn. Data structures and M-files.
- Sparse Solve sparse system. Mixed integer and floating point.
- 2-D plot(fft(eye)). 2-D line drawing graphics.
- 3-D MathWorks logo. 3-D animated OpenGL graphics.
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Comparison Table
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| Operating System | Mode | LU | FFT | ODE | Sparse | 2-D | 3-D |
| Win Xp 32-Bit | 32-Bit | 0.4323 | 0.3576 | 0.2029 | 0.5625 | 0.3697 | 0.5733 |
| Win Xp 64-Bit | 32-Bit | 0.4385 | 0.3987 | 0.2079 | 0.5890 | 0.3673 | 0.5688 |
| Win Xp 64-Bit | 64-Bit | 0.3314 | 0.2546 | 0.2637 | 0.6226 | 0.4429 | 0.5717 |
| Fedora 6 64-Bit | 64-Bit | 0.2847 | 0.2087 | 0.1913 | 0.5279 | 0.4132 | 0.6941 |
| Ubuntu 7.04 64-Bit | 64-Bit | 0.2802 | 0.2032 | 0.1944 | 0.5205 | 0.3974 | 0.7440 |
Conclusion:
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