( 11 reviews )
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Posted: 02-26-2009
I purchased this laptop used and was dissapointed because the video did not work after a couple of months. I called HP and was told that it was out of warranty but the Rep was knowledgeable enough to see notes that this particular model had system board issues and the warranty was extended for a year. HP sent me a call tag for free and had my laptop repaired with a week. Before you toss out this laptop call HP and see if it's under their replacement warranty due to defective system board. I'm extremely happy with laptop now and will be putting Windows 7 in the fall if it comes out. I won't be putting vista on it due to max of 2 gigs of ram.
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Posted: 02-15-2009
We bought this just over 1 year ago and its falling apart, we can't close it right as the screen is coming apart and the disk tray no longer opens properly. We use it a lot but just here at the house and it doesn't get moved around a lot so this is not well worn and I am very disappointed by this cheap quality. The featuers are nice and it performs ok otherwise but opening and closing the unit and the disk drive should not be an ordeal. My dell desktop is much older and gets much more use and is still going strong, I made a real mistake not going to Dell for the laptop and will not make that mistake again!
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Posted: 07-15-2008
The main flaw with this product is that it overheats if you try to make use of its fairly quick processor. (i.e. game playing or heavy multi-tasking) This isn't a major issue for anyone who doesn't intend to use this computer very heavily, but the frequent blue screens have become a regular occurrence and have become very annoying.. Also, as I've seen mentioned before, the webcam is of very poor quality and freezes when taking video. Finally, about 6 months into my owning this computer, the media touch strip completely stopped working. This is another problem that I have seen mentioned before. Overall, I highly recommend against this computer, you could get much better for the same price.
