#1: HP Pavilion DV7-3080US 17.3-Inch Espresso Laptop - Up to 4.5 Hours of Battery Life (Windows 7 Home Premium) Reviews!
I have owened this laptop for over a month now. Its extremely quick and never lags no matter what I have open. I can burn a dvd, download a large file, and play a game all at the same time. It will run crysis well at full resolution as well as modern warfare 2. I have read bad revews about the display and honestly its not bad. I think it may be slightly different from the dells because of the type of glossy film they use. Remember this is susposed to be an entertainment pc and for that it is AWSOME. I can watch movies via hdmi in full 1080, just simply plug it in and your ready to go. Battery life is decent for a computer with a quad core. Intel uses turbo boost and I think this helps to keep power down a bit. The touch controls at the top of the keyboard work great and I like them alot. Remember this is a quad core 1.6ghz but with turbo boost it will go up to 2.8ghz. Shows up as 8 cores total. Very efficient processor. Hp's bloatware is really not that bad either. Audio is quite good. The speakers on this laptop sound great and get decent volume as well. Wireless n works great and is very fast. Fan is fairly quiet and it runs very cool.... if its on ur lap it will run hotter but still much cooler then many dual core laptops i have used. Keyboard has a great feel and is quiet. Mouse pad buttons feel great and people seem to complain about the glossy finish on the pad but i think it feels good and works well. The scroll bar on the right of the mousepad also works awsome. Also big plus this has a second drive bay so you could add a solid state boot drive or a standard drive for storage if you like. I think you have to buy a hard drive cradle or something but its a great added bonus. Also this fits well in the Wenger, SwissGear 17 inch back pack.
A few things i dont like is that the power brick is really large, wish it had a lit keybord although this is really not a problem and the screen is really bright so its easy to see the keys plus it uses slightly less power without it. Glossy finish attracts finger prints like crazy but its still pretty. Hp's media smart software could use some work , it takes a long time to open and too much bling just for browsing photos. I made windows picture viewer my default viewer to solve this. I do wish it was full 1080 but its close and i dont think its a big enough difference to notice... blue ray movies still look great!. ... all in all great computer ... makes a great desktop replacement. All the negatives i stated are minor. I very much recommend this laptop. The prices are dropping as well and its just becoming more affordable.
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HP Pavilion DV7-3080US 17.3-Inch Espresso Laptop - Up to 4.5 Hours of Battery Life (Windows 7 Home Premium) Features
- 1.6GHz Intel Core i7-720QM Processor (6 MB L2 Cache, 1333 MHz FSB)
- 6GB DDR3 RAM (2 Dimm), Max supported 8GB; Nvidia GeForce GT 230M discrete 1 GB up to2.8 GB total graphics memory
- 500GB (7200RPM) SATA Hard Drive, LightScribe Blu-Ray ROM with SuperMulti DVD±R/RW Double Layer
- 17.3" Diagonal HD+ High-Definition HP LED BrightView Widescreen Display (1600 x 900)
- Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit, *Up to 4.5 Hours of Battery Life
Customer Reviews
Fast, but too many stupid design flaws - D. D. Martinez -
First and foremost, the large remote control pictured in the Amazon product listing is incorrect. This large remote might actually be comfortable (as it looks ergonomically designed to fit in your hand). Instead, this one ships with the ultra-thin (and therefore really difficult to use) remote that also slides into the expansion PCMCIA bay. Convenient to carry the remote around, but useless to use because the buttons are all just mere tiny bubbles on the flat remote - fine if you use it twice a year to start and stop a presentation, but don't expect this to be your primary media center remote.
Now, to the PC itself: After removing the typical bloatware the thing is actually very fast. DVD authoring and other processes fly by. Wireless network seems strong and it will happily connect to my N-router from the far end of the house without ever dropping down to my G-repeater that is farther down the line. The bad parts about the design (and I consider most to be unforgivable): 1) the HP logo on the outside of the cover is always lit up when the device is awake. EVEN if the screen turns off, the logo stays on. You can forget about leaving your laptop on in a dark room. Another lighting problem, the status lights for charge, wifi, and disk usage are on the FRONT of the unit and shine right at you and they are BRIGHT. Like 1W LED bright. Seriously, you cannot watch a movie with these three lights shinging at you (and of course, they stay on even when the screen goes dark). Lastly, I can hear a bit of noise on the headphone jack even after a song stops. This sounds like either wifi or drive interference because it is fast patterns and intermittent.
Update - Aug 2010: Having now lived with this for 8 months I can say that I hate this laptop. In addition to the design flaws mentioned earlier I can only say that over time the weight and heat of this laptop have really started to bug me. If anyone reading this is (like I was) thinking that bigger is better from a screen perspective, and "how often do I really travel anyway" then think again. This is really, absolutely and truly, just a desktop replacement. Think of it as a desktop machine that is easy to move from your home office to kitchen or living room. It is such a beast that the AC adapter shorts out the in-flight power supply on all Airbus (including A380) and Boeing planes that I have flow on (and there is no way it gets more than 2.5 hours of battery life.
Even if this laptop was half the price I would not buy it again.
