The inflated RAM and Nvidia GeForce Go 7600 with 512 MB video memory saw the ASUS F3JM score a mind blowing 8783 3D Marks and scorch the charts with 60.8 MCC Winstones-both absolutely on the top as far as performance in this shootout across the categories is concerned. It also gave 3 hours and 4 minutes of battery time in that benchmark, proving that it would be a really cool block of electronics to own. The price tag of just under Rs. 86K, even with the vendor provided 1 GB extra RAM price added in, is a great deal overall.

BOTTOM LINE: Buy if you can afford the price tag!

This is really a large notebook and is not designed to be portable at all it seems. It has a 17” wide screen and a full keyboard with a proper number pad like on a desktop's keyboard. But somehow, for its bulkiness, it weighs only 0.5 Kg more than normal notebooks, at 2.5 Kgs. The NW9420 comes with all the bells and whistles, including a fingerprint reader, a TPM chip, smart card slot, and motion sensing hard drive protection. Like all the HP notebooks we received this time, this also features a one-touch projection system – this is a button near the top edge of the keyboard that when pressed activates video streaming through the notebook's VGA port. There is a similar button that launches the calculator (we haven't seen a separate button for a calculator on any notebook so far).

Performance wise, we recorded it scoring a 3992 3D Marks and 50.1 MCC Winstones. Battery time 2 hours long, that we wished could have been longer.

BOTTOM LINE: Lots of features in this notebook, but it has a very high price tag. Compared to the F3JM, this has more features, but is lower on performance.