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Well the Acer packed in and with the warranty the store gave us credit (apparently the Acer that we had had become obselete and there was none in stock). So with the £400 or so store credit my mother wisely (and under her own guidance as far as I know) picked the HP Pavilion DV6000 (as far as I'm aware theirs no difference between this and the T model though if there is, I'm sorry). Quite why My mother (darling mother of mine) decided to ever get the pile of fecial matter that Acer claimed was a laptop I was never quite to sure, as everything in it came to peices, the keys flew off, the screen was...well dead, the AV charge wire was..erm..well dead too. Why couldn't she have gone after a real solid, well worked peice of kit like this first time round Im not sure.
So HP's...what do I think of them? Well I'd basically take a bricky out house over an Acer now a days, and I'd take a HP over just about any sort of a laptop barring whatever Alan (my ex's dad had) and the Sony Viao (sp anyone?) series. HP's if you've read my previous work on them rank up there as basically one of my favourite hardware companies.
HP desktops on the whole are built with good, relliable, well manufactured parts *coughunlikedellscough* and most of all they are built to last until you need an upgrade due to technological advances, rather than malfunction.
Now onto the laptop, which I admit I've only had a few weeks of time with (but yet already lust for one of my own, maybe I should hide it in my bag when I go back to Scotland...) and haven't quite figured out every nook and cranny. What I have understood so far is that it feels solid, and not like you'd type out the keys in 4 months if you were to use it frequently.
The laptop colour scheme is 2 fold, dark one the outer casing, keys, monitor "frame" and touch pad buttons. The rest (sp inside of the case) is silver. The blue lights you see on it are the one off button, the volume, the DVD player button, the touchpad button (you can turn it off :-S) and then you have your power lights. All very pretty and easy to use (touch sound contol for example). Seems very sci-fi to me.
Like I admitted I haven't fully played around with it, like I did with the Acer but the cup holder on here really is a cup holder, and will take a failry heavy object, not the feather weight of the Acer.
The laptop has all the normal jacks (headphones, speakers, mouse, USB, Telephone cable, wireless adapter and expansion ports as you'd expect from all modern laptops. A built in wifi (again it seems pretty much standard now a days) a multi layer DVD R+ recorder and a very complete overall feel to it.
The techy bits- (copied from "My computer") 74.45 GB hard disk seperated into two partitions 5.2 in the D drive (recovery)and 69.25 into the C drive (Local drive) 958 MB Ram AMD Turion 2x mobile technology TL-50 1.60 Ghz
OS Windows Vista Home Premium
The 15.4 inch widescreen LCD display in brilliantly clear and again makes you think of shouting at Acer telling them hor things should be done.
The whole thing works brilliantly together apart from the "silence" touch button, which I occasionally seem to clip when typing which wakes me up a lil bit if theres a background audio program running. Otherwise this is how you make budget laptops.
Overall..laptops can be better than this, of course they can, but you'll be hard pushed to find many better at the price range. Warning if your stuck between an Acer and a HP take the HP, drop it on the Acer and walk away with your Heavy weight world champion rather than the lightweight chump. This is the Lennox Lewis to the Acer being Herbie Hide, this is a Maclaren F1 car to the Honda's. This is so far ahead of many of it's rivals it's unbeliavable for the price. Invest in it now, and remember the HP brand basically garuntees fantastic customer services and wonderous information on the product both in manuals and online.
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(+) the quality of his material which casing was not with the reduction affected (-) battery endurance is not too good and will be a bit inconvenient if you have to frequently work ou
Jun 21st, 2007
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