Five years ago you’d walk into a tech store with three thousand dollars, and emerge bow legged, carrying a bulky, expensive computer the size of a sewing machine – about as cutting edge as a Josh Groban Christmas album. Today you can pick up a Compaq equipped with a biometric fingerprint sensors, and dual core processor for less than a grand.
A few yearsago you’d walk into a computer hardware store with two thousanddollars, and emerge bow legged, carrying a heavy laptop the sizeof a sewing machine, with a 2GB hard drive – about as cuttingedge as a Josh Groban Christmas album.
Those primeval days still haunt Laptopical’s sensitive editor,occasionally manifesting themselves in a series of nightmarishflashbacks, but thankfully as more and more quality notebooks arereleased onto the market, these worrying episodes are becomingless frequent. Today $999 will buy you a durable, business class PC, boastingsolid performance, airtight security features, and an array oftech bells and whistles.
The new Compaq NX6125 from Hewlett Packard is a great example ofthe bargains available on the current market. The NX6125is equipped with a 60GB hard drive, integrated biometric fingerprint sensor, wireless connectivity, bluetooth, a firewireport, 3 USB ports, and a 6-in-1 card reader.
Weighing around 6 pounds, this Compaqlaptop isn’t what you would call ultralight, or ultraportable,but it is durable, with it’s scratch resistant lamination, HPspill-resistant keyboard, and panel protection system. Thesefeatures all help to protect the notebook’s dark chassis from theinevitable nicks, and scratches picked up on the road.
We like that the NX6125 comes with a biometric Fingerprint reader, which provides users with a powerful level oflaptop security. The notebook is also powered by an AMD Turionprocessor, a chip that is rapidly gaining popularity withlaptop manufacturers the world over.
To summarise, the Compaq NX6125 isn’t the most attractivelooking on the shelf, but it should provide durability,security, value and performance, for small business roadwarriors.


