HP Pavilion DV8380US 17" Entertainment Laptop (Intel Core Duo Processor T2400, 2048 MB RAM, 240 GB Hard Drive, LightScribe Super Multi DVD+/-R/RW Dbl Layer Drive) | List Price: $2,598.00
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Brand: Hewlett-Packard
Binding: Personal Computers
Features: - Multimedia-focused laptop with 17-inch Brightview screen and 1.83 GHz Intel Core Duo T2400 with 2 MB L2 cache/533 MHz bus
- Dual 120 GB hard drives for 240 GB capacity, 2 GB of RAM (max capacity), multi-format LightScribe DVD/CD burner with dual-layer support
- Four USB 2.0, one FireWire, one VGA, one S-Video, one PCMCIA, one ExpressCard/54, microphone, headphone, IR receiver
- GeForce Go 7400 graphics card with 128 MB of dedicated/128 MB shared video RAM; tri-mode 802.11a/b/g wireless connectivity; Bluetooth
- Windows XP Media Center edition; HP Photosmart Premier digital photo software--ready for Windows Vista
Works, but quirky [Posted on 2006-08-16]
I've owned this laptop for about 5 weeks; bought directly from Amazon. About 4 weeks into owning it with regular use, a few of the keyboard keys stop responding, intermittently: the "Enter" key and a couple of others. Then a few days later, the problem went away... for now.
It comes with Win XP Media Center edition, which has caused some problems. Oddly enough, if you want to view DVDs in widescreen format, Windows Media Player doesn't do the trick. You have to use either the pre-installed "HP Quickplay" or "Media Center" software; neither of which is as user-friendly as Windows Media Player.
Also a note to those who don't own a TV, and think that buying this laptop will do the trick: it doesn't. It comes with a TV -tuner-, but unless you have a TV or TV antenna, it is of no use.
Personally, I wish I had looked at the Toshiba P105-S6084, which has the same specs (sans the "Lightscribe" feature, which isn't 'all that'), and is much cheaper. However, I'm sold on HP's durability and tech support, and don't have experience with Toshiba brands.
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