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Design is really nice, processor spedd are excellent and graphics are amazing. This product here have a better price than you can get. I was looking other options in stores but my choose with buy it in amazon. Just one detail.. web cam is not perfect resolution.. but for me is good! Buy it!.
Don’t buy this product if you are looking for any sort of support. HP has the worst technical support in the business and that is a well known fact. Any internet search on the topic will reveal that fact. Please buy your product from another manufacturer or you will regret it like I have and millions of others.
I love this laptop, quick, neat. Only drawback is when you turn on the power, the fan sounds pretty loud, but after a few seconds it is quiet. It runs quietly when you use it. Another thing I don’t like much is that it shows fingerprints easily so you have to clean it often to look clean.
I was in a hurry to get a laptop and chose this one, without doing further research. Turned out this was quite a nice deal. The price I purchased was $699 (before a $50 mail-in rebate, which I have got it within a month); however, a very nice sales representative allowed to price adjust it to $664 within in a week of the purchase. So basically a very happy experience. Although later the price has been lowered to $[...], I have nothing to complain about.
The laptop has a very nice CPU and a huge 4Gb memory, a fast 7200rpm hard drive. However, the integrated graphic is limited which makes it a weak point. Although at the price the system setting is good; it would be great if the graphic card can be upgraded at an price increase of maybe $50-$100.
Have not carefully tested aspects such as battery life but seems it can last 2-3 hours after fully charged. The laptop is not noisy in comparison with my other laptops.
Overall, would be a nice laptop for daily uses if you get it at around $600. The current price $[...] without any rebate is a bit too high for me.
This is a nice little laptop. The size fits the perfect form factor of just enough screen size and easy portability. The screen is very vivid and sharp. The included remote is nice, especially when used with the HDMI port for watching streaming video or DVDs on a HD TV. It’s nice to have the capability to hook it up to a TV set and catch missed shows online. I haven’t yet figured out if there is a little secret compartment to store the remote. Something tells me there isn’t and I’m too nervous to try and pry open the little door on the left side, where I think it might go. The included software bundle is a mixed bag. Although there is the usual list of space hogging trial ware (Office 07 trial, Norton 360 60-day trial, etc), there is also very useful software, most notably Cyberlink DVD suite. These are fully functional programs, including Cyberlink PowerDirector. It felt good to have actual useful software remaining after uninstalling all the trial ware. I hoped for a little speedier performance from the T6500 CPU, but it seems adequate. Although it won’t break any benchmark records, it’s snappy enough to keep up with Vista Home Premium. I hope for even better performance gains when I receive and upgrade to my free Windows 7 CD’s. That’s one of the reasons why I opted for a Vista PC just before the Windows 7 release. PC makers (especially HP), are shipping without restoration disks these days. As I suspected, Amazon had a sweet deal on this laptop just before the Win 7 release. So I got a Win 7 capable laptop and a free upgrade to order actual Win 7 media instead of simply relying on a hidden restore partition or the task of burning my own restore disks. The integrated Intel video is by far the weakest link. Don’t get this if you’re into intense PC gaming or hard-core video editing. You will definitely be disappointed. However, for normal users like myself (web browsing, office apps, casual photo/video editing, and occasional light-resource intensive games), you will be more than happy with this laptop. And the design isn’t bad either. I love the high-gloss finish, although it’s a major fingerprint magnet. Although the touch-sensitive buttons are a cool touch (no pun intended), they can be a bit of a nuisance when you’re trying to wipe smudges and inadvertently launch or adjust something. The six-cell battery has average life. Overall, not a bad laptop for the cash. Has more features than some laptops costing $100 or so more.
***11/15/09 Update***
Okay, I am really perturbed about the bundled “software”. I have a really big problem with the concept of giving the false impression that there is usable software until someone actually attempts to use it and discovers it is little more than severely crippled trialware. The program that invoked my ire is Cyberlink PowerDirector. I do a lot of video editing and the fact that a fully functional version of PowerDirector was supposedly bundled with the laptop played a large part of my decision. Well, I just tried to edit some footage. In addition to a lot of content being disabled in “my version” (as they call it when constantly bugging me to upgrade), the program will not edit HD (AVCHD in particular) footage. So basically, unless you have the most basic of video editing needs (which can probably be solved by Windows Movie Maker anyhow), this is all but useless. If you’re looking at an HP laptop for PowerDirector, just be advised that the version they bundle is little more than a non-expiring but severely crippled trial version.
#1 by Ji on November 15, 2009 - 1:07 pm
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Design is really nice, processor spedd are excellent and graphics are amazing. This product here have a better price than you can get. I was looking other options in stores but my choose with buy it in amazon. Just one detail.. web cam is not perfect resolution.. but for me is good! Buy it!.
#2 by Ackroyd on November 15, 2009 - 1:07 pm
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Don’t buy this product if you are looking for any sort of support. HP has the worst technical support in the business and that is a well known fact. Any internet search on the topic will reveal that fact. Please buy your product from another manufacturer or you will regret it like I have and millions of others.
#3 by Qiang on November 15, 2009 - 1:07 pm
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I love this laptop, quick, neat. Only drawback is when you turn on the power, the fan sounds pretty loud, but after a few seconds it is quiet. It runs quietly when you use it. Another thing I don’t like much is that it shows fingerprints easily so you have to clean it often to look clean.
#4 by Bent on November 15, 2009 - 1:07 pm
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I was in a hurry to get a laptop and chose this one, without doing further research. Turned out this was quite a nice deal. The price I purchased was $699 (before a $50 mail-in rebate, which I have got it within a month); however, a very nice sales representative allowed to price adjust it to $664 within in a week of the purchase. So basically a very happy experience. Although later the price has been lowered to $[...], I have nothing to complain about.
The laptop has a very nice CPU and a huge 4Gb memory, a fast 7200rpm hard drive. However, the integrated graphic is limited which makes it a weak point. Although at the price the system setting is good; it would be great if the graphic card can be upgraded at an price increase of maybe $50-$100.
Have not carefully tested aspects such as battery life but seems it can last 2-3 hours after fully charged. The laptop is not noisy in comparison with my other laptops.
Overall, would be a nice laptop for daily uses if you get it at around $600. The current price $[...] without any rebate is a bit too high for me.
#5 by Finkelstein on November 15, 2009 - 1:07 pm
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This is a nice little laptop. The size fits the perfect form factor of just enough screen size and easy portability. The screen is very vivid and sharp. The included remote is nice, especially when used with the HDMI port for watching streaming video or DVDs on a HD TV. It’s nice to have the capability to hook it up to a TV set and catch missed shows online. I haven’t yet figured out if there is a little secret compartment to store the remote. Something tells me there isn’t and I’m too nervous to try and pry open the little door on the left side, where I think it might go. The included software bundle is a mixed bag. Although there is the usual list of space hogging trial ware (Office 07 trial, Norton 360 60-day trial, etc), there is also very useful software, most notably Cyberlink DVD suite. These are fully functional programs, including Cyberlink PowerDirector. It felt good to have actual useful software remaining after uninstalling all the trial ware. I hoped for a little speedier performance from the T6500 CPU, but it seems adequate. Although it won’t break any benchmark records, it’s snappy enough to keep up with Vista Home Premium. I hope for even better performance gains when I receive and upgrade to my free Windows 7 CD’s. That’s one of the reasons why I opted for a Vista PC just before the Windows 7 release. PC makers (especially HP), are shipping without restoration disks these days. As I suspected, Amazon had a sweet deal on this laptop just before the Win 7 release. So I got a Win 7 capable laptop and a free upgrade to order actual Win 7 media instead of simply relying on a hidden restore partition or the task of burning my own restore disks. The integrated Intel video is by far the weakest link. Don’t get this if you’re into intense PC gaming or hard-core video editing. You will definitely be disappointed. However, for normal users like myself (web browsing, office apps, casual photo/video editing, and occasional light-resource intensive games), you will be more than happy with this laptop. And the design isn’t bad either. I love the high-gloss finish, although it’s a major fingerprint magnet. Although the touch-sensitive buttons are a cool touch (no pun intended), they can be a bit of a nuisance when you’re trying to wipe smudges and inadvertently launch or adjust something. The six-cell battery has average life. Overall, not a bad laptop for the cash. Has more features than some laptops costing $100 or so more.
***11/15/09 Update***
Okay, I am really perturbed about the bundled “software”. I have a really big problem with the concept of giving the false impression that there is usable software until someone actually attempts to use it and discovers it is little more than severely crippled trialware. The program that invoked my ire is Cyberlink PowerDirector. I do a lot of video editing and the fact that a fully functional version of PowerDirector was supposedly bundled with the laptop played a large part of my decision. Well, I just tried to edit some footage. In addition to a lot of content being disabled in “my version” (as they call it when constantly bugging me to upgrade), the program will not edit HD (AVCHD in particular) footage. So basically, unless you have the most basic of video editing needs (which can probably be solved by Windows Movie Maker anyhow), this is all but useless. If you’re looking at an HP laptop for PowerDirector, just be advised that the version they bundle is little more than a non-expiring but severely crippled trial version.