HP Pavilion tx2500z 12.1" High, Vista Home Premium

#1: HP Pavilion tx2500z 12.1" High, Vista Home Premium Reviews!

>>>>See More Details & Check Price Now!<<<<<

I wanted a tablet to draw on and this is a good one. Does not support pressure sensitivity (which is fine for my uses) and I could not successfully use a WACOM tablet plugged into it for some reason, probably driver compatibility issues. Is lightweight and sturdy, and has occasional slowdown but it acceptable. The built in wi-fi saved my bacon a couple of times! I wish I could figure out a way to disable some of the buttons on the screen though.. where I normally grab it usually activates the dvd theatre thing. I am too lazy to investigate further.

Battery life is fine.

HP Pavilion tx2500z 12.1" High, Vista Home Premium Features

• AMD Turion(TM) X2 Ultra Dual-Core Mobile Processor RM-70 2.0 GHz, 2GB DDR2 SDRAM
• 160 GB SATA,12.1" WXGA BrightView w/Integrated Touch-screen
• Super Multi 8X DVD+/-RW w/Double Layer, 6 Cell Lithium Ion Battery
• ATI Radeon(TM) HD 3200 Graphics, w/ Webcam, Microsoft(R) Works 9.0
• 5-in-1 media card reader, 802.11b/g WLAN, Vista Home Premium

Customer Reviews

Great Design; shame about HP's lack of support - R. J. Battersby - E'bourne, SSX, UK
I think most everything's been said here about this seductively designed tablet PC. Its style, features and pricing lure you into buying it but when you get it home, you find that its beauty is skin deep.

- It runs slowly
- It runs HOT - Ouch!
- The battery (that doesn't suffer memory problems) most certainly does
- The SD card reader latching mechanism has broken - see below
- The Digital Persona fingerprint security software is poor - see below

SD CARD READER - I could be sarcastic here and praise HP for inventing such an innovative device. Wow! An SD card reader? How DID they do that? But I won't because we all know they're incorporated in their squillions on everything from cameras and phones to digital recorders and - er - PCs where they serve reliably - often outdoors in harsh conditions - for years. Pity HP didn't choose a reliable SD Card reader. The latching mechanism on mine (and that of many others according to research) failed on probably the 5th time I'd used it. The card just pops back out. You can hold the card in against a spring strong enough to stop a Shuttle launch but after a few seconds, your finger-end goes dead (apart from having to operate the keyboard with only one hand). And HP just doesn't want to know...

DIGITAL PERSONA - The fingerprint reader is pretty slow and usually takes three or four attempts on cold boot but usually only one attempt thereafter. Strange.

But after about 4 weeks from new, a CRITICAL UPDATE Warning came up saying that I MUST update the Digital Persona software to maintain security. So I followed their hand-led instructions and guess what? The new software was a chargeable upgrade. So much for CRITICAL; it wasn't CRITICAL to me. Maybe it was CRITICAL to Digital Persona's bottom line?

Even then, I was suckered into buying it. And guess what? The installation stopped mid-way with a message that it was incompatible with my version of Windows. Now I haven't changed Windows. My HP TX is strictly OE. Don't Digital Persona know who they're marketing their CRITICAL updates to? Seems not.

But unlike HP, after I had sent them a CRITICAL email, a Digital Persona director not only issued me with compatible software, they refunded the cost of my original upgrade purchase. They come out of this smelling of roses.

OVERALL? I wouldn't buy another HP product. If HP cuts corners on quality, they should be prepared to stand by their product in the afterservice. They don't.