You’ll always know what’s on the disks if you use HP’s new LightScribe technology, included with the laptop. LightScribe laser-etches silkscreen quality images on CDs and DVDs, although not in color, yet. You just have to purchase the right disks and make sure the disk is turned so the side to be etched is facing down, the same direction you need to burn CDs. We burnt the new Panic! At The Disco CD, A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out, with the included Sonic software and then turned the disc around to etch the image to the other side. The image came from Amazon.com (an excellent free resource for album art).
And when it’s time to listen or watch your recordings, you’ll have plenty of time to do it, even if you don’t have the power adapter. HP includes two removable batteries so you can have a charged one ready to go when the power runs out. We watched The Wedding Crashers, using the DVD player and the first battery conked out just at the tail end of the film.
It’s one of those features that you never think about until you need it: an onboard numeric keyboard. Most laptops have barely the room for a regular sized QWERTY keyboard. However, HP’s dv8000 is so huge it does have the room, and even includes the quick launch button so someone can use the calculator without starting up the rest of the OS. The DVD player and music library work in this fashion as well. You can start up the DVD player, or listen to music at the touch of a button, without starting up the entire PC. And your movies and music will sound pretty good, even without speakers attached, since HP includes onboard Altec Lansing speakers.
Also included with HP’s newest laptop is a 6-in-1 digital media card reader, four USB ports, an expansion slot to hook the notebook up to an expansion base, as well as an integrated 802.11g WLAN card. yy
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