Catchy Title Huh? Well I just wanted to share that I have purchased a new lap top. Its a HP Pavilion dv7. I was a little iffy about buying anything with HP on it. As I've always had friends with issues. So we'll see how this laptop treats me.
It's very nice, and loaded I suppose for a lap top. I have to say that I'm surprised by the amount of thinking it does for a new laptop. I guess I'm just used to getting beefy desktops and they never have thinking when you first put them to use. I haven't had the chance to really test the system.
It does have a blu-ray player which would be nicer if I didn't already have a Playstation 3. I have though used it once so far watching Talladega Nights in bed. The quality of the video was what it should have been. The sounds quality was pretty nice for a laptop. It does have much better video, and sound quality compared to the Dell Inspiron that my mother owns.
The 500 gigbyte hard drive is only 5,600 rpm which I'm sure will be an issue for running Everquest or other hard drive intensive games. Out of the box your hard drive is 451gigs, and a recover partition of 12gigs. What oh what happened to those other 37gigs. Maybe I'm showing how little I know about computers there! I know you always loose memory but I never expected that much.
I am impress with the quality of wireless. It seems like I can take it a lot further than the Dell laptop and it will have a stronger connection. I haven't had any trouble connecting it to my, or the neighbor wireless.
I do however wish that I had a choice of colors on the outer shell. It looks nice in the grey/silver. But the silver keys do make it hard to sometimes see what I'm looking for. Luckily I can type without that but the additional key (home, end, page up, page down, insert, delete as examples) are in much different than on a normal keyboard. I do like still having the number pad on the laptop. Which is nice for gaming. I also don't like seeing my finger prints all over the keys, and mouse pad. Also this laptop does come with a flash light built into the back side of the monitor. It lights up with a HP symbol. Can I sell that space for advertising?
It has enough ports to keep me busy filling them up for a while. A few usb, hdmi, and various others that I will probably not ever use. Also it came with a snazzy little remote. It didn't seem very good the other night when I was using it from 5 feet away. Maybe I just was aiming in the wrong spot, but if that is so it would be picky which is a downer.
Maybe one day I will find the need for a webcam. And when I do I will already have it with my laptop! I did however play with it the other day, and it has a lot of different options that can be changed. Filters, popping balloons, and various other stuff that will distract you from what I'm doing.
So my first gaming experience on my new Pavilion dv7 was a struggle. What game you might ask? Well I felt like playing some old school robot world domination, Total Annihilation. After trying to find the game for an hour I got back to my desktop to turn off the music, and move to murder of the Arm forces. It didn't take long to install Total Annihilation at all. But when I tried to install the expansion, The Core Contingency the ever so loving Windows Vista told me that it couldn't install this. I searched the web for a little looking for answers and found out that many other people have the same issue. Hello Micro$oft, I never had problem loading this software on XP. You might want to think about people playing old games, as I'm sure a very large portion of people using Windows is playing games. Don't always think ahead, and never look back.
So far I'm pretty happy with my HP Pavilion dv7. The battery life seems to be pretty good for the size of screen, and HP logo I'm powering. Ha. It is about what I would expect as it's weight is concerned. I feel that I got a good deal for the money I have spent on it.
Cheers,
Eric N Cincy
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