Pre-installed with Windows Vista Home Premium (Service Pack 1); includes remote control
Rating: - Good laptop but video card no good.
Good laptop, excellent TL-60 microprocessor, great memory 3Gb. Bad VGA card...just 64 Mb dedicated video memory. Fast 160 Gb HD.
Rating: - Sweet Deal.
This is a pretty sweet laptop. The screen is big, bright and great. The 3GB of RAM keep this puppy running smoothly and the 320 GB HDD gives you more than enough space to store what ever you need on this computer. The nVidia graphics card with 512 MB of separate memory makes the picture quality astounding. The touch buttons up top are perfect, not too sensitive, and not to the point where you have to stab them with your finger to work. An interesting feature I wasn't even aware because it wasn't mentioned in the review was the fingerprint scan log-on system. Although at first I wasn't to fond of it (for the love of God it wouldn't record my index finger print signature)eventually you get used to it and I haven't logged on through the password option since like the fourth day I got the laptop. The webcam is pretty good and although it may not seem like it would, those two little holes next to the webcam are a really powerful microphone. The speakers are pretty powerful for a laptop speaker, but then again Altec Lansing is a good speaker brand.
Now I only have pretty much one con about this computer. The battery life. Its not horrible, but its not the greatest either. It won't hinder your experience with the laptop that much, but its there in the back of your head. Why not just include a more cell-containing battery from the start is a pretty crappy move from HP, but seeing as how the upgrade battery will set you back $100 and most people will flock like stupid cattle to get it, HP isn't gonna give an easy hundred up just like that.
Either way, I pretty much give this laptop a 5/5. Truly amazing.
Rating: - Good product BAD SERVICE from Amazon
I INITIALLY ORDERED THIS PRODUCT IN MAY 08 BEACAUSE OF THE FETURES ADVERTISED BY AMAZON WHICH INCLUDED A BUILT IN CAMERA. WHEN MY ORDER ARRIVED IN TRINIDAD & TOBAGO IT DID NOT HAVE A CAMERA. I CONATACTED AMAZON WHO PROMISED TO SHIP THE CORRECT LAPTOP TO ME. GUESS WAHAT THE SECOND LAPTOP DID NOT HAVE A CAMERA AS ADVERTISED. I HAVE BEEN CHARGED FOR TWO LAPTOPS I DID NOT ORDER. I'M VERY DIS-SATISFIED!!!
DO NOT EVER PURCHASE LAPTOPS FROM AMAZON.
Rating: - Great usability, but has some issues
The machine has an excellent display, great built in capabilities, an easy to use and high quality keypad, the right amount/placement of ports and a very sleek visual design. It can run most programs but it has a few issues that has given me some trouble:
* Poor cooling system. If you run grpahic intensive programs, the built-in graphics card can't handle it. It overheats and randomly freezes up.
* Wireless card burns out if the system overheats. I've had to replace it once and the new one has since burned out. Now that it is no longer under warranty, I essentially have no wireless capabilities with this laptop.
HP Pavilion DV6830US 15.4-inch Laptop (1.83 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T5550 Processor, 3 GB RAM, 250 GB Hard Drive, DVD Drive, Vista Premium) Reviews
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