HP 530 Madness: Hewlett Packard’s Very Cheap Budget Laptop
Category: Acer, Apple, HP, Laptop Brands | May 16th, 2007
Seems like HP have gone totally mad and we mean mad, they have just rolled out a very low budget laptop that most people will afford with ease, obviously you have some money saved aside because you are looking for a notebook, well you can save most of that money now and only pull a little of it from your funds to purchase one of these HP 530 laptops. These laptops from HP are only from $549 that is a little amount for a lot of laptop.
Ok then for that amount of money the laptop must be crap? Nope not at all read on for the laptop spec bit –
Operating system - Genuine Windows Vista™ Business 32 or Home Basic 32
Processor type - Intel® Core™ Duo or Intel® Celeron® M
Processors available - Intel® Core™ Duo processor T2050 1.60 GHz 2 MB L2 cache 533 MHz front side bus or Intel® Celeron® M processor 410 1.46 GHz 1 MB L2 cache 533 MHz front side bus
Chipset - Mobile Intel® 940GML Express or Mobile Intel® 945GM Express
Processor cache - 2 MB L2 cache or 1 MB L2 cache
Memory - 512 MB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM - 533-MHz with 667-MHz memory
Memory upgrade - Upgradeable to 2 GB maximum
Hard drives - 80 GB 5400 rpm SATA
Optical Drives - DVD/CD-RW combo - DVD+/-RW SuperMulti with Double Layer
Display size - 15.4-inch WXGA Brightview
Graphics cards - Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 with up to 224 MB shared system
Network - Intel 82562GT 10/100 Network Connection
Wireless - Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG; Broadcom 802.11 b/g
Source – Laptoping
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i recently bought my hp 530 last year in October at chaos computers in clemont ( cape town, South Africa) and I’m not satisfied with it,I bought it for R7000 and today i have to replace its battery it just went dead on me, so now i have to replace it with another one.i have to admit I dont know that much about laptop. So where can I find a new battery and I need one that will lasts longer
Comment by zovuyo — February 14, 2008 @ 9:44 am
this does not ell u price wast of my time
Comment by dylan — February 27, 2008 @ 5:19 pm
Oh please. I could build a decent gaming system for that much. Next time come up with something truly budgeted, HP. Use AMD’s mobile processors or something. If you can’t, then I’m afraid you fail. That doesn’t give everyone else an excuse, though. I mean fer chrissakes, the options are RIGHT THERE.
Comment by Ceceil Felias — May 28, 2008 @ 12:23 am
A decent gaming platform for the same price as that? Think you’re on crack. In the uk its currently £269 with 2Gig ram (for the Celly version). Cheapest average gaming system here is £500, decent one is about £700+. No point though comparing a laptop to a gaming system, apples and oranges.
There’s very few laptops here < £300, this is one of them, with reasonable specs (never seen a 2G one under that price).
If you’re on a tight budget you can’t complain.
Comment by Ian — June 10, 2008 @ 9:59 am
The worst product from a worst company. Got complaint from the 2nd day of purchase, Display panel, battery, keyboard….it goes on….
Comment by Moby — June 20, 2008 @ 6:58 am
payed laptop cca. 950$ (cheapest/best processor in area) have it for 4 months,and haven’t any complaints so far.it is awesome business platform.
Comment by dr.zook — June 29, 2008 @ 3:11 pm
ALERT!
If your battery eject mechanism is a single notch slider/pop out system, then the most chances are that you carrying a battery that has a very bad history of getting damaged within a very short period of time.
Mostly found in hp DV series and Hp compaq series lappies.
Please update me about the type of battery the Madmax hp 530 comes with.
Comment by Digi_P$ycho — September 29, 2008 @ 1:17 pm
Well i have to say i wasnt too happy with this lappy at all… it had only a led that says “Hey i’m on” and the charger led… so i was pissed that i coulnt see when it had lots of hd activity… after a while… i got used to it… so far 6 months with the Intel 1.66 model it came with 1GB ram… i upgradded to 2GB, and 120GB of HD… i must say it kicks ass (Specially when you dont use windows
)… and till now… i would buy another one if i had to… the only thing i miss is just two more usb ports… the rest it runs great!
Comment by santiago-ve — December 26, 2008 @ 1:01 pm