HP laptops good, bad, or indifferent

macpaddy

Just think about getting a new Laptop and If I buy a HP I can get a 20% discount on the price,
I’ve never used a Hp before, they look good and have all the extra bits and bobs but are they any good.
If anyone has one can they tell me what they think of It
Cheers

Johnny Bitte

I ve bought one which should be here Monday.
Done some research and they appear to be among the top brands.

macpaddy

The pavilion rage look really good ,I have a dell at the moment but it's on it's way out and I don't like any of the new dell range,
If you can keep me posted when you get it I'd like to know what you think of it

Tom Dunne

Personally, I have nothing good to say about them.

My Pavillion gave me nothing but trouble. Having said that, I appear to be in the minority around here.

Johnny Bitte

macpaddy wrote:

The pavilion rage look really good ,I have a dell at the moment but it's on it's way out and I don't like any of the new dell range,
If you can keep me posted when you get it I'd like to know what you think of it

Here s the one I m getting from Dabs. Was waiting one a Dell but when I compared this to the one I was getting this had far more for my money.
HP dv9565ea

I can only describe it as a beast!!!

AlmightyCushion

Two of my friends have hps and have caused them nothing but trouble. One is currently getting a motherboard replacement. The other was returned to pc world for fixes about three times. After it fúcked up when he got it back the third time he brought it back and got a different make.

AlmightyCushion

The_Goose135 wrote:

Here s the one I m getting from Dabs. Was waiting one a Dell but when I compared this to the one I was getting this had far more for my money.
HP dv9565ea

I can only describe it as a beast!!!

What graphics card does it have. Can't seem to see it there.

Johnny Bitte

tom dunne wrote:

Personally, I have nothing good to say about them.

My Pavillion gave me nothing but trouble. Having said that, I appear to be in the minority around here.

Hey Tom,
Could you give me some examples?

macpaddy

The_Goose135 wrote:

Here s the one I m getting from Dabs. Was waiting one a Dell but when I compared this to the one I was getting this had far more for my money.
HP dv9565ea

I can only describe it as a beast!!!






Hey Tom,
Could you give me some examples?

I think thats made my mind up for me, I think I'll stick with Dell,Go with what you know,Thanks for the advice

Johnny Bitte

AlmightyCushion wrote:

Two of my friends have hps and have caused them nothing but trouble. One is currently getting a motherboard replacement. The other was returned to pc world for fixes about three times. After it fúcked up when he got it back the third time he brought it back and got a different make.

Not good. Ah well I ll see Monday

Johnny Bitte

AlmightyCushion wrote:

What graphics card does it have. Can't seem to see it there.

Yeah, Dabs doesnt list it but the HP says NVIDIA® GeForce™ 8400M
Whether it comes as standard we ll have to wait and see
HP DV9665ea

AlmightyCushion

The_Goose135 wrote:

Not good. Ah well I ll see Monday

Well, the guy who had to have the motherboard replaced is by far the most unluckiest person I've ever met so it could just be his luck. He has had so many problems with it though. The battery life went to shíte in no time, the sound stopped working on it 10 minutes after he turned it on and sometimes it used to make a loud beebing noise when it was turned off. The only way to get it to stop was to oul out the battery. He couldn't return it for ages either because he needed it for college. In fairness to them though he left it in to get fixed about two weeks ago and he's getting it back this weekend. Hopefully you donn't run in to half the problems he did.

Johnny Bitte

AlmightyCushion wrote:

Well, the guy who had to have the motherboard replaced is by far the most unluckiest person I've ever met so it could just be his luck. He has had so many problems with it though. The battery life went to shíte in no time, the sound stopped working on it 10 minutes after he turned it on and sometimes it used to make a loud beebing noise when it was turned off. The only way to get it to stop was to oul out the battery. He couldn't return it for ages either because he needed it for college. In fairness to them though he left it in to get fixed about two weeks ago and he's getting it back this weekend. Hopefully you donn't run in to half the problems he did.

Frickin Hebe Jebe's now ha ha ha
Hopefully I ll be luckier

DO you know where he got it from and what model?

AlmightyCushion

The_Goose135 wrote:

Frickin Hebe Jebe's now ha ha ha
Hopefully I ll be luckier

DO you know where he got it from and what model?

He got it in a computer shop ini Athlone. I haven't a notion what the name of the shop is. Don't know the model either but I'll be chatting to him Sunday evening so I'll post it up Monday morning if you like.

Johnny Bitte

AlmightyCushion wrote:

He got it in a computer shop ini Athlone. I haven't a notion what the name of the shop is. Don't know the model either but I'll be chatting to him Sunday evening so I'll post it up Monday morning if you like.

Cool that would be great

conzy

Dell Vostro is where its at

AlmightyCushion

The_Goose135 wrote:

Cool that would be great

I'll do that so. I'll probably forget to post it up so if it's not here by lunchtime on Monday drop me a pm.

Johnny Bitte

conzymaher wrote:

Dell Vostro is where its at

Not really impressed with the Vostro. Cant see the big deal about it.
You can get a Inspiron which is the same or am I wrong?

SpitfireIV

I got a HP Pavilion DV6331eu a couple of months back or so, I had a Toshiba previous to that and I can say, so far, that I am very pleased with my HP.

It did actually work out of the box , it hasnt self destructed and neither has it fallen apart due to shoddy construction :rolleyes:

If I could say one bad thing about this range of HP's, its the finish.....the area around the keyboard is a glossy silver finish with little swirly lines, it gets very grubby and shows up finger marks, dust and dirt very easy! As well as the top casing, its a really glossy black, again with lots of swirly lines, this to shows up smudges, fingerprint and dust very easily, so you'd need to carry a lint free cloth about with you if you want it looking clean all the time.

All I can tell you mate is, if you like it, it has what you want and you're happy with it, then buy it!! No point asking opinions, EVERY manufacturer will have good AND bad points

Johnny Bitte

Thanks Croppy.

I could see from the pic s that it would be glossy and figured as much about the dust and that but the features it has will keep me happy for a long time.