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A few kinks here and there. Everything is shiny and beautiful. I wouldn't pay $1000 for this though. The volume control is a problem maybe 20% of the time anyway.
Not bad.Pros: It looks AWESOME. I have this laptop for about a month now, and paid $700 from JR with a mail-in rebate. Very stylish. I called tech support and troubleshooting did not take care of it.
I'm talking about the cool-looking touchpad control. Aside from the sleek chrome look of the keyboard, there's a litup touch pad control for the volume and DVD playing functions. The computer functions pretty well. I haven't had problems yet, although I plan to uninstall the 3-month trial of Norton and get AVG. I would give this 3.5 stars, but that's not an option.
I think I've gotten somewhat used to it though. 2- The volume control really is SCHIZOPHRENIC. You can easily adjust volume through external speaker control, the mini icon in the bottom right corner of the screen or through the remote (nifty, yet cheap plastic) they give you. I'm going to try troubleshooting that by re-installing the touchpad software. It drives me CRAZY sometimes. The picture displayed above doesn't really do justice. Really not a huge deal.Overall I like this computer a lot.
Cons: There are only 2 major downsides I have encountered so far: 1- there's this incessant, light yet high-pitched humming that comes out of the computer. It's very faint.so I dunno if my ears are just extra keen or something. Serves its purpose and looks great. Wait until it's listed for $750.
The computer shop said that he this model in "all the time' for repairs.I called Hewlitt Packard and they wanted even more than that to 'fix.' Not only did I lose my data, but I am out a $1,000 laptop. I had this computer for 14 months when suddenly went dead. I took it in to have it checked out and they said 'the system board is broken' and wanted $500 to be repaired. I would not recommend any one buy a Hewlitt Packard.
To be completely honest with you, this Notebook looks awesome, from the liquid metal finish to the white lighted buttons and HP logo on the top monitor cover, the only bad thing about the look of this notebook is that it gets really dusty real quick and the fingerprint marks will fill every inch.Some other reviewer mention that the quickplay buttons are buggy and don't work, all I can say about mine is that after I press it takes a second or two to execute the action require.The battery gets very hot when charging even when the notebook is barely warm. But beware "this model does not come with the fingerprint reader" the product description never say it does but amazon put a picture of this notebook with the fingerprint reader. I also notice that the battery life is very short, I only get a couple hours running on the power saver option.The screen is really bright, with great picture quality, and high definition. the integrated web cam is the best I have seen so far and it came with a software that allow you to use some simple but fun effects in your videos.Keyboard and touch pad and very good. I think this is an omission and is not in bad faith but you can easily be misled by it.As the performance of this notebook I'm not very impress because it took me a couple hours of fine tuning to get similar performance as my 1 year old HP Pavilion DV6660SE AMD Turion 64X2 TL 58 1.9GHZ, 2GB Ram. HP as usual sell this PC's loaded with useless software that takes tons of space and resources form you machine, my advice is to google by name every software install in you PC and then uninstall the ones you don't need or use.
That would be the only complaint I had which to me is not much of a complaint. The one day shipping rate thru Amazon was very reasonable at $18.00 or so. I honestly feel like selling my Dell and purchasing another DV5-1000US. I love this laptop so much I almost want to keep it(which I know I can't because she truly needs it for school)or purchase another one.
The laptop itself is simply beautiful. Before receiving this laptop, I told my fiance not to expect much from the built-in webcam. I will support another reviewer who stated there were many updates to download and install for Windows. Purchased this laptop for my fiance's daughter. There is an HDMI out on the left side of the pc. I would highly recommend this laptop to anyone. I would have purchased it even without the rebate.
Not only that but I called her computer and spoke with her just as well as if I was on the telephone. You have to create your own recovery discs and I highly advise using dvd and not cds. Another issue for some people will be the fact this little sucker does not come with any supporting software. I had to eat my words as I used it that same night while we chatted on instant messenger. I currently own a Dell Inspiron. When you go into creating your recovery discs it tells you how many discs you will need. I used dvd-r and only needed three discs. I tested the volume control on this one and it worked flawlessly.even the mute button worked at the touch of my finger.
I believe there were about 25 or 26 updates which took some time to download and install. Another reviewer mentioned experiencing trouble with his volume control. Amazon had a list price of $1375.not sure how accurate that is but with all the features on this pc.it would easily list over $1000.00 most places you look. I will be taking it back to Puerto Rico with me on 10/10 so here is my problem. $899.99 minus a $50.00 rebate.what a steal.
Obviously if one uses cd-r you will be needing many more discs due to the lack of storage available in comparison to dvd. I know my future step-daughter is going to love this laptop. Selected one day shipping on a weekend purchase and it was shipped that Monday and delivered Tuesday. That is a huge plus in my book. From the dual-core processor the list goes on.4gb memory, 3mb cache, 250gb hard drive and to boot.a built-in webcam/microphone.
I hate to part with it and I have only played around with it for a couple of days. I look at my Dell now in disgust. Another kudos I will give to HP.the memory card reader on the left side of the pc not only excepts SD cards but also Memory Stick cards. She is excited and cannot wait to see it. Anyone purchasing this laptop will not regret it.
Unfortunately, the confirmation had delivery estimated in 5 days (over a weekend). Windows update installed a bunch of updates, and HP had updates for the BIOS and most of the drivers. The updates fixed the problem with it not working after sleep, but it's still choppy and slow. It's very choppy and slow to respond. Nice.The notebook is beautiful. I said the item was in stock when I ordered it, and they offered to refund my shipping.
That was nice, but I wanted it the next day. Well, imagine my surprise when it arrived the next day. I needed this notebook next day, and Amazon's reasonable charge for next day delivery (under $20 on a $900 item) allowed me to order it this way. I suppose most of the drivers could be located via the internet (not sure about that video camera, though), but how inconvenient. Easy enough to fix, though. All these updates for a brand new computer.But even after all those updates, the very cool looking volume slider doesn't work well. So much so that I'll stick with Vista unless it gets too annoying.But these problems are few, and none of it distracts from the enjoyment of the notebook.
Really nice. I called to complain, and was told they were having supply problems. HP support couldn't help either.And Vista. It's supposed to come with a P7350 2.0 Ghz processor, but instead, it came with a P8400 2.26Ghz processor. It does everything you'd want, and it's as fast as Vista allows it to.Problems:Of course, the notebook is loaded with trials, and the IE home page set to eBay (of all places). XP is far faster (try copying some files across the network with Vista) and far less annoying (it almost forces you to turn off UAC).HP does us a disservice by not providing XP drivers for this notebook. It's a great notebook, and a really good value.
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