1) Intro: Features, etc.

2) Benchmarking: Sandra 2k1, Memtach, etc.

3) Functionality, General Impressions

4) Conclusion

The HP Pavilion N5495 is the first notebook based on Intel's new i830 mobile chipset which supports the Pentium III-M processors, otherwise known as the Tualatin core.  The new chipset enables, in addition to support for the Tualatin processors, support for upto 1024 MB of PC133, not PC100, SDRAM.  This increase to the bus speed between the memory and the processor also includes a bump in the bus speed to the south bridge, thus increasing the usefulness of things such as IEEE 1394 and other high speed devices which could easily saturate the bus if running at full capacity, while, say, encoding a video stream from a digital camcorder.

Features:

The Pavilion N5495 comes equipped with a Pentium III-M (Tualatin) 1.06 GHz processor with Intel's Speedstep technology, a 15" 1400x1050 Active Matrix TFT LCD, 512 MB PC133 RAM, a 30 GB HDD, an 8x4x24 DVD/CD-RW, 2 USB Ports (sorry, not USB 2.0 though), 1 IEEE-1394 "Firewire" port, 1 S-Video out port, a parallel port, and a 1.44 MB 3.5" floppy drive housed internally.  The Pavilion N5495 is also known as the Omnibook XE3.  This is truly a wonderful notebook, and as you can tell by all of the features, is intended to be a desktop replacement.

Size:

Well, with all of these features, one could easily conclude that this notebook has some heft to it.  It weighs in at 7.4 lbs and has dimensions of 11.4x10.>x8.?.  So, if you formerly had a very small notebook, like I did, then your case might not be quite big enough.  In fact, even if you old notebook was moderately sized, you might need a new case.  I am using a Lowe Pro MS1400 and also have a Targus Notepack I use occassionally.  The notebook just barely fits into either of them.  So, I did not have anything new to but as far as accessories, but other might.

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