A long-term review of an HP Pavillion ZE4214 Laptop.

In March of 2003, I purchased a HP Pavaillion ZE4214s laptop, the first laptop I have ever owned. This is my review of the model over the time I have had it. It should help anyone who is interested in the ZE4200 series, perhaps buying a used one.

Let me start by providing the specifications.

System Specifications

Processor AMD Athlon XP1800 mobile RAM 256 Mbytes of PC2100 DDR RAM Graphics ATI Radeon IGP320M (upto 128 Mbyte of shared memory) Hard drive 20 Gig (18.2 Gbyte formatted size) Sound Connexant Audio with Altec Lansing speakers Input device Touch pad and optional PS/2 or USB mouse Number of USB ports 2, USB 1.1 compliant Optical drive DVD Reader, CD Re-writer Weight 3.3 Kg I/O ports 9 pins RS232 serial, 25 pin Printer port, 1 32 bit cardbus port. Floppy drive Standard 1.44MB 3.5" drive built in. Screen size/type 14.1" TFT, 1024 x 768 resolution Networking capabilities Built in 10/100 Ethernet and a V92 Fax/Modem Other features Mic in, Headphone out, PS/2 mouse/keyboard socket, S-VHS video output Fast access features Volume up/down buttons, 5 hotkeys for accessing applications.

Since purchasing the machine, I have expanded the memory to 512 Mbytes and added a Wireless network card.

3D mark score

3DMark Score	1398 3D marks
Game 1 Car Chase - Low Detail	22.6 FPS
Game 1 Car Chase - High Detail	9.5 FPS
Game 2 Dragothic - Low Detail	21.8 FPS
Game 2 Dragothic - High Detail	14.2 FPS
Game 3 Lobby - Low Detail	23.3 FPS
Game 3 Lobby - High Detail	12.4 FPS
Game 4 Nature	No hardware support
Fill Rate (Single-Texturing)	88.4 MTexels/s
Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing)	237.7 MTexels/s
High Polygon Count (1 light)	3.5 MTriangels/s
High Polygon Count (8 lights)	2.3 MTriangels/s
Environment Bump Mapping	27.0 FPS
DOT3 Bump Mapping	14.4 FPS
Vertex Shader	17.9 FPS
Pixel Shader	No hardware support
Advanced Pixel Shader	No hardware support
Point Sprite	1.2 MSprites/