HP Pavilion DV9620US 17-inch Entertainment Laptop (AMD Turion 64 Processor TL-58, 2 GB RAM, 240 GB Hard Drive, Vista Premium) | List Price: $1,312.00
Discount Price: $899.99
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Brand: Hewlett-Packard
Binding: Personal Computers
Release Date: 2007-09-30
Features: - Entertainment-centric notebook PC with widescreen 17-inch LCD and stylish high-gloss finish with wave imprint, integrated webcam
- 64-bit 1.9 GHz AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-58 processor, dual 120 GB hard drives, 2 GB RAM (4 GB max), LightScribe dual-layer DVD drive
- 54g Wi-Fi (802.11b/g); 10/100 Ethernet; Nvidia GeForce Go 7150 graphics (up to 559 MB of available memory)
- Connectivity: 4 USB, 1 FireWire, 1 VGA, 1 S-Video, expansion port 3 connector, ExpressCard 54/34, 5-in-1 memory card reader
- Pre-installed with Windows Vista Home Premium (with Media Center capabilities)
Terrible, stay away! [Posted on 2008-04-16]
I own this laptop and have been completely disappointed with it. It randomly crashes and resets (this may be a Vista thing), often the touch pad cuts out, and worst of all, it is SLOW! I develop games and require good 3D support. I figured getting a laptop with an NVidia card would give me good performance. I was completely wrong. This has the worst graphical performance of any laptop I've owned in the past 3 years, including laptops with on-board cards.
I've been disappointed with HP in the past and I should have listened to myself when I doubted buying another HP. Do yourself a favor and avoid this laptop. Even a laptop with an integrated gfx chip will run faster for any graphical application.
HP Pavilion DV9623CL refurbished laptop [Posted on 2008-05-08]
I bought this refurbished laptop at a really good price, $700 USD. It had a lot of features at this price, including two 120gb hard drives, 17" widescreen, bluetooth, media center remote, a decent dual core processor and 2gb of ram.
I had never previously bought a refurbished product before, but it was in pretty much brand new condition and functioned like new. For the price, you would be hard pressed to find something with these sort of specs.
The laptop itself runs smoothly for office applications, and web browsing. Although the graphics card has no dedicated memory, Solidworks runs fine with larger 3D models. There was also no problems running Adobe Creative suite.
Although I would imagine the laptop would not be perfect for high end gaming due to the graphics card being fairly standard, but then again I would just buy a console or a desktop for the price difference anyway.
So in summary:
pro's:
-Excellent laptop for the price
-Excellent for everyday office use and good enough for 3D applications and ram intensive programs such as photoshop.
-Widescreen has heaps of screen real estate
-Media center capabilities and remote
-Decent battery life
-Looks damn good
con's:
-Have not tested with high end games, but most probably not suitable with no dedicated graphics memory
-Vista is a little slow on start up, but once you delete a few programs and clean it up, the laptop is a dream
Overall I would highly recommend this laptop for everyone, except maybe the hardcore gamer. But then again the hardcore gamer would not be looking at a laptop at this price, rather one that is a lot more expensive. I am a transport designer so have used a range of programs at home and at the office and the laptop has been reliable and a real pleasure to have.
Disappointed with the video card [Posted on 2008-05-18]
I recently purchased a similar (but slightly different model) HP Pavilion laptop which performs great for games, and I wanted another one for multiplayer gaming. Unfortunately I couldn't get that model, so I purchased this one instead.
It turns out that the video card in this particular model sucks. Windows Vista reports gaming performance 2.5, as compared to more than 4 in the other machine. Consequentially, gaming graphics aren't nearly as nice on this machine as the one I purchased earlier.
The laptop works fine otherwise, but the graphics really suck for playing games. To avoid such unpleasant surprises, it would be very nice if Amazon included Windows Vista performance metrics in laptop descriptions in the future.
Defective Motherboard [Posted on 2008-08-03]
The HP PC's are TRASH in my opinion. I bought the DV6226US in March 2007, and my System Board fried just 7-1/2 months later. They replaced it, and 8 months later if fried again - and HP wouldn't cover it. With the excessive heat no wonder! A system board crashing is rare but 2 boards in 16 months is nothing but defective product - pure and simple. DONT BUY THIS PRODUCT
Hang on to your old XP notebook [Posted on 2008-10-04]
I can't begin to say how disappointed I am with this product having had it for about a year. I bought it to replace an 8 year-old Compaq Presario that had finally gone to the great junk yard in the sky. I spent a long time researching options on this and other makes before finally going for this one.
The big problem is of course Vista. My 8-year old notebook took less than 10 seconds to boot up when new and was still getting there in under 30 8 years later. This one? Well over a minute just to get going, and if you need to restart you had go put a pot of coffee to brew because you'll be enjoying a cup before the computer has finished. This extends to every operation you do, what used to take a blink of an eye takes a long yawn. And that makes it impossible to enjoy.
The screen is excellent, the speakers are good, the keyboard is a keyboard. I optimistically tried to return it after a month but 'its not very good' was not sufficient grounds for a refund.
Honestly if your old XP computer is still working - hang on to it or buy a mac, just don't bother with one of these. The problem is not with the HP product which seems robust - its the operating system. Would you trade in your 2000 BMW because its old and be happy to have a brand new 1985 Buick LeSabre given to you? Thats what this feels like
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