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Most of that additional heft goes toward performance. On our WorldBench 6 suite, the P151HM achieved a solid score of 132,

but its gaming performance was truly impressive. The P151HM carries an Nvidia GTX 460M with 1.5GB of video memory and full

support HP 6710b Battery for DirectX 11. On 3DMark 2011 its score was 1800--one of the better marks I've seen from a laptop

in this class. On the Far Cry 2 benchmark the system delivered a rate of 56.8 frames per second (without antialiasing), which

is pretty darned good.Even better, it ran the highly demanding Metro 2033 at 30 fps, albeit at medium settings.

Given the solid discrete GPU, as well as the machine's Intel Core i7 2630QM quad-core VGP-BPS9A/B CPU and Blu-ray burner, the

P151HM could make for a pretty decent media-authoring workstation on the go. The asking price of $1416 (as of March 9, 2011)

is a bit on the high side, but you get what you pay for.

Sometimes, performance can take a back seat if other features are lacking; for instance, one thing that VGP-BPS9 can drag

down a laptop's utility is a poor display. Fortunately, the P151HM's matte, full-1080p LCD panel delivered seemingly accurate

color. Blu-ray movies played on the included Blu-ray drive looked sharp, with good color fidelity. Black levels were

adequate, though still mostly Compaq Presario CQ60 Battery dark gray. The one area where the display fell short was in off-

axis viewing angles, but that's a problem with most laptop LCDs.

That may be due in part to the additional THX TruStudio Pro tuning from Creative Labs that's included with the system. I

tend to avoid stage-widening effects and fake surround, but the stereo imaging and overall audio fidelity on this
HP Pavilion dv1000 Battery sounded surprisingly good to my ears. Music was generally balanced, though lacking in deep bass. Movies

sounded crisp, with vocals--often heavy on the center channel--coming through very clearly. You may still prefer to use

headphones if you want more punch in your gaming or movie audio, but the built-in speakers, coupled with the THX software,

definitely impress.

The keyboard is another area in which laptops often disappoint. The Clevo P151HM's HP Pavilion dv2000 Battery keyboard

offers

excellent tactile feedback. One cute touch is the set of red arrows silkscreened onto the W-A-S-D key cluster, which many

first- and third-person action games use for movement. Overall, the keyboard is quite good, but it lacks dedicated Page Down,

Page Up, Home, and End keys; you need to double-press the Fn key or deactivate the nearly full numeric keypad to use those

keys. Transport controls for HP media players also require Fn-key use, as they're layered on top of the function keys.

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all the way through, but not quite enough to last through a transcontinental flight. The laptop does get fairly loud and warm

under a full gaming load, so be wary of using this PC on your lap

The Clevo P151HM provides five USB ports; two are USB 3.0 ports and one is a combo A1057 Akku USB/eSATA port. You'll also

find an actual DVI dual-link connector, plus an HDMI output. Networking includes 802.11n and gigabit ethernet, but no

Bluetooth support. Storage is robust, consisting of the aforementioned Blu-ray burner and Seagate's spiffy 7200-rpm A1045

Akku Momentus 9500 hybrid drive.