RegHardware take a look at the HP Compaq nx6125 biometric laptop. The processor in the review model (which more precisely is the nx6125 EK159ET) is a Turion ML-40 clocked at no less than 2.2GHz, making it among the fastest mobile processors out. It has a full 1MB of L2 cache to further enhance its performance, although the 35W thermal rating means it's slightly more power hungry than a rival Intel Core Duo CPU.

At 2.75kg this isn't the heaviest of 15in laptops, but it's still rather weighty if you're doing a lot of travelling. The good news for the nomad, however, is the battery life, timed at nine minutes short of three hours in the standard MobileMark 2005 test. The DVD playback test yielded two hours 26 minutes, not breath-taking, but the nx6125 wasn't made for watching DVDs on. The performance numbers are pretty good as well, both in MobileMark 2005 and PCMark 2005, although it's by no means the fastest notebook I've tested. The integrated graphics drags down the score to a degree and this is also apparent in 3DMark 05 which scored a mere 505, even with the full 128MB allocated to graphics.