14 DAY TRIAL // In case it wasn't already clear, HP is not, in fact, the only company to refresh its product line today, although it does have the largest collection of new or updated devices to talk about.
For those who missed it, HP released thirty devices for the business market alone, which means that the Pavilion notebooks covered here don't even count towards that total.
At any rate, we are not here to talk about some other HP device, but a pair of computers from NEC.
One of them is the LaVie L, a notebook, while the other is the ValueStar L, a more or less common desktop.
We may as well take them in order, so we'll provide whatever information we have on the laptop first.
The LaVie L Series laptop utilized an LCD (liquid crystal display) whose diagonal is 15.6 inches. The native resolution is 1,366 x 768 pixels, HD as it is otherwise known.
The task of displaying images on that panel falls to the Intel HD graphics built into the central processing unit.
Speaking of which, the hardware revolves around the Core i7-3610QM quad-core Ivy Bridge central processing unit, with a base clock of 2.3 GHz and a Turbo Boost speed of 3.30 GHz.
Other specs include a 1 TB HDD, up to 8 GB RAM, a Blu-ray XL disk writer, a digital TV tuner and, of course, connectivity and I/O (LAN, Wi-Fi, USB 3.0, card reader, etc.). Prices vary according to selected components.
The ValueStar L has an Intel Core i7-3770S quad-core CPU inside of that box, clocked at 3.10 GHz and backed by 8 GB dual-channel DDR3 memory.
An NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 graphics card is present, not exactly mighty but, then again, this isn't supposed to be a gaming beast.
A 2 TB HDD provides the storage and, since no PC is complete without a screen, NEC sells the ValueStar L with a 23-inch full-HD (1920x1080) monitor. The price was left out.
