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Just one week after I buy this notebook from Amazon, the price falls by $27 and Amazon refuses to match the price drop. Quite disappointing in that regard. I ordered this on a Wed, Amazon shipped on Sunday and it arrived on Tuesday with free shipping. So that was good.
On to the notebook. First the pros:
Build quality is good and it feels expensive compared to most sub $500 note/netbooks.
Large keys on the keyboard while not as spacious as a regular keyboard works better than than those from Acer that use the chicklet size keys. One of the reasons why I chose this over the Acer Timeline series.
Screen is bright and sharp.
Small compact and lightweight since it doesn’t have a built-in DVD drive (uses an external drive). Design looks clean and modern with none of that clunky look from the low end Lenovos or Toshibas.
Uses Vista 64 bit edition
Has HDMI port to plug into HDTVs
Dedicated graphics processor and memory.
Now the cons:
Battery life is average 2-3 hours
Uses single core AMD Athlon Neo processor which is underpowered for Vista. There’re occasional lags when running basic things like browsers, Word, etc. The CPU is maxed out at 100% most times.
The initial applications and drivers installed seem to make the notebook run really slow. I tried to watch videos on Hulu.com and they were jerky and slow. After installing updated video drivers and IE8 and Firefox, it worked better. Strange for a notebook professing to be an “Entertainment” notebook to be that bad at video until the drivers were updated. Despite the dedicated graphics processor and memory, video performance is just average and can a bit slow at times.
Bloatware. There are several but not too bad.
HP MediaSmart: this is pretty useless since the notebook already has Windows Media Center. The software itself is nothing great and eats up additional memory and CPU cycles.
Bottom line: This notebook is just barely able to run Vista 64 since the CPU is underpowered. It’s a compromise between a full blown notebook and netbook since it has a decent size hard drive and screen. To make it perform better, you’ll have to remove all the bloatware and unnecessary applications, and download the latest software updates and drivers. I’ll be upgrading to Win 7 when it arrives so hopefully, that’ll improve the performance further. Also probably look into upgrading the 2gb ram to 4gb.
It is a good little computer for the price!!!!.i have used it just one day yet but the speed is pretty ok. i am not a gamer. i use it for my home office stuff so it works well for me
This laptop works well. At times it seems to be a little slugish but generally it allows you to do get things done. The camera quality is very poor; it reminds me of those webcameras 8 years ago. The footage is always a step behind the actual time and the picture is’nt very clear. This is my only dissappointment thus far. Other than that i’m a content customer!HP Pavilion DV2-1110US 12.1-Inch Entertainment Laptop
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