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I Farking spent $1,300 on one. And now it should be expiring in three months.

Research before buying my friend.

Blurred wrote:Research before buying my friend.

Well I bought mine in Feb 08 w/o research. I think mine gets the one year extensive warranty so Ima give them a call and try to get a free replacement.

You really shouldn't buy Hp in the first place man, they're pretty shitty.
But yeah, I hope you're able to get a replacement, if not, buy a toshiba, best computer company imo.

HP are some of the best. I have a warranty on my laptop so even if mine where to start acting up i could get a replacement. Im still more than happy with my purchase. sucks that you laptop sucks though.

i got ASUS, taiwan's number 1

Haha, i researched for around 30 mins maybe before buying a laptop. Absolutely everywhere says to stay away from HP. And everyone recommends Dell or Toshiba - i got a Toshiba, no problems so far.

Rainigul wrote:You really shouldn't buy Hp in the first place man, they're pretty shitty.
But yeah, I hope you're able to get a replacement, if not, buy a toshiba, best computer company imo.

or just buy the damn parts and make your own

Toasty wrote:Haha, i researched for around 30 mins maybe before buying a laptop. Absolutely everywhere says to stay away from HP. And everyone recommends Dell or Toshiba - i got a Toshiba, no problems so far.

don't know where you searched cause everywhere i looked says stay away from Dell and go with HP, the internet's a big place....

This topic is full of BS, HP worst computers? Your smoking something.

I have a dv6000, best laptop i've ever used(Been through about 2 dells, 1 ASUS, 1 Acer) and its bloody brilliant, graphics card is'nt the best, but i've upgraded it.

XemnasXD wrote:

Toasty wrote:Haha, i researched for around 30 mins maybe before buying a laptop. Absolutely everywhere says to stay away from HP. And everyone recommends Dell or Toshiba - i got a Toshiba, no problems so far.

don't know where you searched cause everywhere i looked says stay away from Dell and go with HP, the internet's a big place....

+1

don't believe the hype.. dell isn't perfect

I have a dv6000 series with NVIDIA 7150M. I bought it on Feb 2008. Right now it's working well except that I keep having to deal with these annoying issues such as the screen turning into black sometimes (like 3/5 of the time--after 1-15 minutes) when I use the full-screen mode on megavideo, youtube, veoh or other video-hosting sites. That problem began about 3 months ago. Another popular one was the quickplay buttons would often cause the system to just freeze when I'm playing a full-screen game. Seriously..wtf? So I ended up deleting that program and these pretty little blue buttons are now as useless as nutless dude. Right now I'm thinking of reselling this computer and just add a couple hundred bucks to get a cheap and lighter $450-$550 gateway laptop similar to the one I chose for my cousin since his is working smoothly (partly because I maintain the damn thing since he doesn't know how to) or just invest more money in purchasing a better machine.

I don't know about DELL but I know Toshiba's a great choice since my girlfriend bought one around the time I got my HP.

To Entangle: just give it a few more months. And how the **** do you upgrade an HP dv6000 laptop's graphics card?

Edit:
If you have an HP Pav laptop, make sure you have one of those laptop fans. I'm using a Belkin one since it has a bent shape that's suitable for this thing but the flat Targus with 4 fans isn't a bad choice either.

LaloHao wrote:

Rainigul wrote:You really shouldn't buy Hp in the first place man, they're pretty shitty.
But yeah, I hope you're able to get a replacement, if not, buy a toshiba, best computer company imo.

or just buy the damn parts and make your own

If you're smart enough, that's the best option by far.
I don't know how to make one with a working BIOS system though lol, so that's out of the question for me.

I own two HP laptops. I love them.

sony and compaq laptops are the worst.

IBM Lenovo OMG is the best one out of 6 diff brand of notebooks that i own

I went the other way and bought something different , gigabyte w566n

works well has 2 years warranty , the only *problem* is 8400m gs gfx card which works on 60*c idle :p but its pretty good at least i can play some games on it .

Entangle wrote:This topic is full of BS, HP worst computers? Your smoking something.

I have a dv6000, best laptop i've ever used(Been through about 2 dells, 1 ASUS, 1 Acer) and its bloody brilliant, graphics card is'nt the best, but i've upgraded it.

dom wrote:I own two HP laptops. I love them.

I mean I can't complain, the laptop is great and all that, except out of the box it took like 10 mins to load into the desktop... had to get some HP update crap thing to fix that. But they make good laptops, but HP is not willing to help out customers who fell into this circle of defected GPUs that they put in their laptops.

so wat kind of laptop should i buy... i havent shopped for any computer for 4 years now....

I Got a HP NoteBook.
Elegant.

But is kinda Old lol Hp Pavilion zv6000
it cost me around 800$ bougth two years ago

i might buy another hp xD
A quad one

ThatBluePerson wrote:

Entangle wrote:This topic is full of BS, HP worst computers? Your smoking something.

I have a dv6000, best laptop i've ever used(Been through about 2 dells, 1 ASUS, 1 Acer) and its bloody brilliant, graphics card is'nt the best, but i've upgraded it.

dom wrote:I own two HP laptops. I love them.

I mean I can't complain, the laptop is great and all that, except out of the box it took like 10 mins to load into the desktop... had to get some HP update crap thing to fix that. But they make good laptops, but HP is not willing to help out customers who fell into this circle of defected GPUs that they put in their laptops.

and you think Dell or any other computer company would. LOL Dell doesn't even want a call unless you have a warranty, guy basically told me over the phone that he knew exactly how to fix my computer but if I wanted to hear it i'd have to pay far out the ass....

HP doesn't make those GPU's they just put them in their laptops. NVIDIA is a brand thats very trusted in the community. If you expect HP to pick up for NVIDIAs mistake that doesn't make sense and im sure HP would gladly refund if NVIDIA were to cover the losses. Theres alot of ppl at fault here and i hate to sound like a company rep but this is hardly the fault of HP. I'd hope they'd give discount or something but whats to stop ppl from making up BS and getting in on the deal by saying that the reason there laptop is broke is cause of GPUs...think about it

For those that care about this sort of thing, HP is by far one of the greenest companies (let alone industry wide) in existence. They are way ahead of competitors when it comes to life cycle assessment and corporate social responsibility. Properly disposing of computers is really expensive - they let our faculty gather up old computers once a year and they personally dispose of them. For a while now they've been making product choices where harmful materials are not used. One example that comes to mind is that they phased out a standard toxic flame retardant - at their expense.

That with many other things makes buying from HP an ethically good decision, let alone for the quality of their products. Not only do we look at their environmental policy, but their corporate structure and function is a great model that we often use as a base for comparison.

I'm happy with Sony - Vaio Blu-Ray Notebook. Had no problems so far, made it around the world without a scratch, even on some planes in the hold, where things are often broken.

the family has had 3 HP laptops...all still working perfectly in great shape...the first was a Toshiba...its motherboard fried after a few months <.<

My HP/Compag Presario V6221EU has the first listed symptom, i shall be contacting them.

Not that I ever use it.

I have a song viao SR its nice, gonna get a Z series soon for bigger firepower.

You guys could just expand this to read "Don't buy HP home products". Only good HP is a server.

dude? hp sucks? Ive had my HP media center pc m380n for nearly 7 years now, and this comp still rocks! cost me $2000 back when i bought it, and it was the beast. 3.0 ghz CPU speed for a computer 7 years old not bad?

besides computers are supposed to die after about 5 years or so...

Hp =

Compaq + HP = Same company.

Had a Compaq desktop. It was faulty. Sent it in about 4 times to get fixed, and it was never fixed, the 3rd time, I even wrote them a note saying I think it's the Bios battery or the PSU, so they changed both lol.
Took it to Best Buy (had the 3 year warranty), they fixed it first time, it was a Mobo problem.

Bought a Compaq laptop, bought it was Circuit City this time, my Mum paid for the laptop and my dad insisted on getting the 3 year warranty again.
Couple months down the line, I dropped the laptop right on the hinge so it cracked it. I took it to Circuit city, they said they wouldn't fix it as it was physical damage. Compaq took it right away, had in back 2 days later (they actually send you a box, and the mail man picks it up from your door.

May 08, I bought a HP laptop. No problems with it so far. Called them up asking for recovery discs and they sent them for free the next day.

I'm very impressed with their customer service. Not so much with their ability to fix things though. I'd definitely buy a HP again though.

Btw my laptop has the 'defective' 8400m GS, but my product isn't listed.

Cack I thought It was my Fault the Gfx card was farking up all the time, Mind you Im royally facked cause I bought it in Thailand and didnt bother paying the extra 50$ for the Warranty outside Thailand ....

Mind you it works ok most of the time it just hates HOTAN usually freeze and black screen >_< which is a pain seen as im level 43 now.


I dont run vista tho maybe that will save me for a while