HP Pavilion DV7-1260US 17.0-Inch Laptop

5 comments

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   Bradford Oshiro on December 20, 2009 at 3:49 am

   you like to know about HP’s Notebooks. I got severla of them they are all dead fresh out of the box brand new.. I got Over heating with the motherboard died on it many times. The worst O.S. that gets the blue screen of death on every little thing I do with it. I suffered lots of money lost. DV7 any versiob. its a recall item. dead production. dead design flaws. service department. make beleave they fit it. Simply do nothing and send it back. make me waste my time and kill the warrenty.
   
   HP is simply the worst compnay I haved ever used. I for one are not supose to buy anything HP as log as I around. my cases are closed agsinst me. all service reports are deleated.. all case numbers deleated. so that they can kick me off due to not finding anything.if I do give them the case nubmers about a thousnds of them theyreport the case number is fraud.
   
   I want to see HP go out of business. HP makes dea computers to make a living is way too far in my book. I lost well over 3,000.00 on them some of it was X-mas bonus pay.
   
   DO NOT BUY HP! THIS IS A CONSUMER FRAUD

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   B. D. Jones on December 20, 2009 at 6:01 am

   I’m calling this “let’s be honest for once” due to the very fact that we as adults will not be for the purposes of our ego. Yes, this laptop has sleek lines, and the color is cool. The graphics are sharp and the screen is large enough that you can enjoy the DVD player. Add on a subwoofer and you have yourself a nice machine. If that is what you are looking for then this is the laptop for you. BUT, after a long day, you have brought home work that needs to be in the next day, you want to retreat to your corner and complete it….this is NOT the machine for that job and all of the above sleekness means nothing to you. Like magic the keyboard basically disappears. I am sorry that I never took typing seriously; I have a new profound high level of respect along with envy for the touch key typist. Still out of frustration, you do not want to put out the money for this only to have a keyboard you can’t see. I have even tried holding it at various angles to try and work with it. At a recent outing,my friends wanted to see the laptop with the disappearing key board, I was too ashame to even bring it out. In closing if “entertainment” is the name of the game, HP has clearly knocked the ball out of the park with this one. If you need to do work, because you need your job to help fund your entertainment, go to something else, HP missed the mark on that issue.

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   Susan Bujhawan on December 20, 2009 at 8:49 am

   I purchase this laptop recently actually a little over a month and i noticed a crack developed in the sreen, I do not know if this is a defect on the computer but the laptop was not used for any other purpose than to check mail it was never moved from my room. I am very disappointed, i will like to know a possible solution asap. I must say, the laptop seems like a great machine but i will like to rectify this problem.

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   Joseph J. Marzilli on December 20, 2009 at 11:17 am

   The keyboard is unreadable (black lettering against a bronze background)

   How could such an experienced firm make such a mistake!?

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   fw Bear on December 20, 2009 at 11:41 am

   I purchased this notebook here, after talking to Amazon assistance about what features it enjoyed.

   I was looking forward to a fast modern near-top-of-the-line computer.

   Starting with turning it on for the first time it is i-n-c-r-e-d-i-b-l-y s-l–o—w… Even with 8 GB of ram and a fast disc.

   It crawled through the initial setup and I finally had to shut it down late into the night before I could do the “Factory Restore”. (It did recognize Double Layer DVDs and so did this important backup on only one.)

   It loads many-many-many promotional “Try it, You’ll like it!” versions of all sorts of trash software and defaults to a lot of promoter’s “Foot-in-the-door” software and services.

   The anti-virus is particularly intrusive taking up the screen with a large banner that can only be removed if you have previously loaded Windows Task Manager to END TASK. And then before you know it, it is back again, blocking the screen and intercepting the keyboard.

   Another intolerable “Feature” occurred the first day I used the machine (day 3). While I was online downloading data and images that were updated every three minutes, it suddenly took over the screen and announce that it was now going to proceed with “part 3 of 5. DO NOT TURN OFF YOUR COMPUTER!” and my broadband connection was dropped and the screen continued with that message.

   I have no idea what it was doing, so of course, I turned off the computer.

   It has done that twice more now but I am ready for it and turn off the machine before “God-knows-what” it will do to the computer (notice I didn’t say “MY computer”. I feel like I am not the owner/operator, but a mere bystander who paid for this.

   I won’t go on with ALL of the harassment, but will leave with this: I CAN’T READ THE KEYBOARD UNLESS THERE IS A BRIGHT LIGHT SHINING ON IT.

   Their “stylish design” of bronze and tans looks very pretty but it gives us a tan keyboard with darker tan lettering. THE LETTERS ARE -COMPLETELY- INVISIBLE!

   I have ordered a set of stick-on keytops that may solve that but for the rest, I have a “modern” computer that is slower than my first Apple ][.

   Be -VERY- sure that you want this one.

   I am very – very DISAPPOINTED.