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For such a thin, light laptop, HP’s ProBook 5310m packs quite the impressive bit of hardware. Unlike similar notebooks and netbooks, this laptop has no need to give up processing power in favor of portability or design. They also very truthfully boast the title “the world’s thinnest full-performance notebook”. Quite impressive and very fun.

The notebook’s base model comes equipped with a cool 2 megapixel webcam, 160 GB of hard drive, and 1 GB of RAM (DDr3). It also comes with a Vista OS, but it can easily be downgraded to the XP OS, and can be upgraded for the 7 OS. Amazingly, it starts at only 700 bucks. Really a bargain when you consider what a hot little machine it is.

It uses an Intel Celeron 3, SU2300 as its processor, but you can upgrade it to a much more energy efficient and quicker Intel Core 2 Duo SP9300 for only an additional 200 dollars. It’s packed with a super-fast, 7200 rpm model, 160 GB hard drive, but you’re given the option to choose up to a 320 GB hard drive. (You can also go as low as 80 GB, but why would you)? While it comes with 1 GB of memory, you can add up to 4 GB of additional memory.

It’s got itself a 13.3’’ LED screen, backlit, with a clear resolution of 1366 x 768. It also has a very nifty feature by the name of QuickWeb. QuickWeb allows you to go online without your OS booting up. How wonderful, all the joys of the internet in only about 20 seconds! No more waiting for Windows to load when you only want to go online!