Alone significantly HD5430 Core i5 HP CQ42 evaluation
The new hardware configuration of the mold HP CQ42
HP CQ series has always been the HP Pavilion DV4 to the range of consumer products backbone, its high price and the appearance of a good mold design, sought by many consumers. Among them, first presented in 2009 CQ40 market account entry level for much of the rest of the CQ41 also with the new Core i series processors and affordable prices to win some users.
We get is the last of the series CQ42, CQ41 and the product of the previous generation is significantly different, CQ42 not just upgrade the hardware internally, using the latest Core i processor architecture, but also to make the general appearance of the mold a complete change to include more modern design elements for the various needs of consumers.
Then the Compaq Presario CQ42, we will conduct a comprehensive assessment, a look at how its performance.
Surface of the fuselage is still the style black
Compared to the previous two generations of products, mold design CQ42 was the emergence of more attention from HP. Although the positioning of the product is still the main entry-level market, but the A side in the body can still see many elements of fashion. Engraved decorative cover covering the whole body, not only can play a very good decoration effect, while avoiding the same material as the piano easily contaminated by dust for fingerprints.
Design of the etched surface
We cover the central location is very familiar with "CQ" logo, to create a chrome material. To test the robustness of this laptop, we try to push the region close to the HP Pavilion DV5000 Battery roof logo, without significant sagging. This indicates that coverage is strong enough for good, the backpack to use public transport without fear of external damage to the laptop itself.
14-inch laptop dies
HP CQ42 body weight
Compaq Presario CQ42 is a 14-inch notebook dies, weighing able to see the weight of 2.22 kg with power adapter battery, with a weight of 2.68 kg trips. Compared with similar products, CQ42 weight is not good, and the thickness of the fuselage sides slightly thicker, but it is still an acceptable range.
14-inch widescreen LED-backlit LCD screen
14-inch HP CQ42 mold is equipped with a 14-inch widescreen LED-backlit LCD display panel, the screen ratio of 16:9, maximum support 1366 x 768. In actual use, we can see this screen displays more than satisfactory, relatively accurate color reproduction, viewing angle of 120 degrees up and down, left and right 140 degrees.
· HP Pavilion DV6000 and a keyboard and other details see
With the growing demand for entertainment applications increase, especially multimedia consumer notebook with camera device has become indispensable, Compaq Presario CQ42 is no exception. We can see the border on the top of the screen, this notebook is designed with a 1.3 megapixel device. Especially on both sides of the camera, HP was also placed two rubber feet, and the edge of the screen around the ball with the other six, used to protect the lid is closed the screen and camera will not cause injury.
Top of the camera screen
Symmetrical sink
Part of a tree, always use the HP CQ42 consumer notebooks more common symmetrical sink. This design can be a good body to save space, conducive to mold design and could help reduce the HP Pavilion DV8000 thickness of the body. However, the focus can provide smaller, the structure of the shaft relative to the control of damping force in general. Therefore, CQ42 can not open the screen lid for one hand.
Metal surface tree drawing process son
But compared to the same level of products, the advantage of the tree CQ42 force is quite obvious. Open the lid and the body to maintain 90 degrees behind the screen does not appear significant displacement. In addition, the surface hinge screen through a process of drawing metal processing, and the body even more beautiful.
Panel above the keyboard area is not any shortcut keys
A simple design in the body HP CQ42 everywhere. Being able to see the HP Pavilion DV9000 panel above the laptop keyboard area did not help hot keys, just a simple rectangular design has a power switch. And most of the region cover an area covered by the cellular network, the bottom is a set of Altec Lansing speakers.
Scale design keycap
Compaq Presario CQ42 is not looking for the popular chocolate floating keyboard, choosing instead intensified keycap design. This user keycap structure also prevent women when typing long nails get stuck in the situation between the two buttons, but also look more beautiful.
HP CQ42 body interface to view details
· Interface HP CQ42 body for details
And covering the same, Compaq Presario CQ42 basic body of the keyboard is also decorated by the etched pattern, covering areas such as the C-face touch touchpad most of the area. It should be noted that this process of hollow carving style first appeared in the high-end HP 2009 series that feels like, now applied in CQ42, HP can also see the importance of this product a high degree.
Built-in touchpad
In addition, the design of HP CQ42 touchpad is also very characteristic, and the body-in-one makes more sense to the surface C together, it seems more elegant. Similarly, the left and right buttons, and no clear line of distinction. However, in actual use, we found that this process key laptop touchpad is shorter, more rigid sense of keys, requires the user to adjust a little.
C the surface covered with the same effect decorative engraving
Simple design Palm rest
Adhering to the overall simplicity of style, HP CQ42 palm rest without much decoration, in addition to the Intel Core i5 and two labeling ATI, the whole area is very clean and tidy. It also reminds us of the design of Apple MacBook body.
The right side of the layout of the interface
The left side of the interface layout of the fuselage
Interface body as a 14-inch laptop consumer consumer Compaq Presario CQ42 provides a comprehensive interface resource rich. Can see both sides of the fuselage, including VGA, HDMI, RJ-45, 3 x USB 2.0, audio input and output interfaces and multi-card reader. Able to meet most users use daily.
Back vent
Finally, we also noted in the left rear of the fuselage, HP CQ42 design a cooling air outlet. Heat pipe with an internal processor and fan, the machine to provide good thermal environment. And design of the cooling air outlet on the left rear, it would not cause too much impact on the user to use the mouse.
HP CQ42 overall test hardware configuration and performance
· HP CQ42 hardware and comprehensive performance tests
We are at the beginning of the article also mentioned, Compaq Presario CQ42 not only improve the appearance of certain aspects of mold, but also a complete hardware upgrade. This makes the laptop while in performance will be significantly improved, so the next pages of the article, we will proceed with an overall yield of HP CQ42 test.
EVEREST software system throughout the summary information can be seen, the new Core Duo notebook with all the same, HP CQ42 is also equipped with a standard Intel chipset HM55, using the Core i5-430M, built in Southbridge , supports DDR3 memory with Intel integrated graphics.
EVEREST system information summary
In addition, this notebook comes standard with 2 GB system memory DDR3-1333 MHz, 320 GB hard drive, and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5430 graphics card. To learn more about the main parameters of the material. In the nucleus newly released i-Series processor family, the main products i5 traditional middle market, currently contains i5 i5-430M and 520M-two, slightly higher than the former to the latter performance.
Information processor CPUID display
Compaq Presario CQ60 using Intel Core i5-430M processor. The processor clocked at 2.4 GHz, 3 MB cache three. Integrated with x86, x86-64, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1 and SSE4.2 instruction date.
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5430 graphics card
Graphics, HP CQ42 using an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5430 graphics card, GPU-Z can be learned by the base frequency of 500MHz graphics, a 128-bit memory interface, the use of GDDR3 memory. From the data, it is still a paper entry level products to meet user demand for 3D entertainment in general.
PCMark Vantage score of 4738 points
Compaq Presario CQ42 does not pre-installed Windows operating system, so we need to install Windows 7 32-bit operating system last, and the environment to run on points in the PCMark Vantage test, the results presented here above. You can see the final score of 4738 points, indicating that the performance of consumer products on the CQ42 mid-market level, to deal with the vast majority of the daily office and entertainment do not have problems.
· HP CQ42 tests and summary of key material
On this page, we'll Compaq Presario CQ42 all materials important for detailed tests, including the processor, graphics card, hard drive and battery life. The first is the computational power of the processor for testing.
We will use CineBench computing power of CPU and graphics rendering capabilities for testing. CineBench software provides a set of very scientific test method, the computing power of the processor and the ability to conduct a full assessment.
CINEBENCH processor performance test
In the Cinebench test, HP CQ42 equipped with dual-core Intel Core i scores only dual-core processor and 2758 were the points and 6481 points. Not hard to find, although the scores in the same level i5-530M also with a slight difference, but over the i3 advantage is pretty obvious. But also noted other, because of its HT technology, dual-core CPU score is not a simple single-core to 200%, but beyond 230% or more. Hyper-Threading visible role in the performance is still quite evident.
E5113 3DMark Vantage score points
3D entertainers, we use 3DMark Vantage Entry mode, the HP CQ42 tested score 5113 points. Level compared to the previous generation of HD4330 graphics cards, this card close to the Compaq Presario X6000 performance improvement of 50%, a level of response to World of Warcraft on most effects are no problem.
HD Tune hard disk reading speed and stability test
Mechanical structure of the hard drive was short board in the computer hardware, operating system is directly related to the stability and speed of system startup. Therefore, using HD Tune hard disk on the stability of portable reading speed test is particularly necessary. Is it different from other portable player is equipped with a 320GB 7200rpm Hitachi HP CQ42, after tests found an average reading rate was significantly higher than normal hard drives, reached 73.6MB / s, data read in a very significant advantages.
Life of the battery for 3 hours and 11 minutes
Finally, tests HP CQ42 battery life, the energy use in software system BatteryMark. You can see, the battery life, this laptop is 3 hours and 11 minutes for a 14-inch is equipped with discrete graphics products, such a result is quite satisfactory.
Compaq Presario CQ42 · Test, test concluded:
In comparison, Compaq Presario CQ60-100 advantage in performance is quite obvious, especially the Intel Core i5 and 7200rpm hard drive, the entire computing power and data to help strengthen the role of reading ability significantly. Another ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5430 graphics card for this notebook offers good performance for 3D entertainment, 3D games in general and 1080p HD movies without any problems.
Mold, the CQ42 series follows the high-end consumer notebook HP ENVY etching process designed to make the machine look more elegant. Although the overall recognition is still black, but the details may change or improve product quality.
Sorry we have tested this CQ42-153TX does not pre-installed Windows operating system, consumers may need to install their own, to run for the entry-level users can be said that not a small threshold .
Chong, senior Commentary money ZOL editor: Start feeling better portable design subtraction
In the overall style minimalist practice to send the tide in the laptop if the use of an arms race in the overall competition also seems a little late. From this spring on a variety of laptop can clearly feel the new design simple subtraction and appearance of new people more emotional. HP CQ42, for example, the whole body is more compact and smooth lines, the outer irregular grid pattern to improve a number of three-dimensional effect. Especially in the keyboard is based on Palm control panel, the abolition of the past rarely used shortcut keys, and touchpad with integrated palm rest, the control part of the overall feel stronger, more concise. In the configuration and close functionality to meet the practical needs of users, the higher the price for the people. HP CQ42 represented entry-level notebook designed to look more logical subtraction.
Compaq Presario CQ42 advantages:
HDD 7200rpm · Speed reading and
· Intel Core i5 Processor and Performance
· Level of products with greater autonomy
Compaq Presario CQ42 below:
* Body weight is too large
• There is no system pre-installed Windows
