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27 customer reviews
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- The HP Pavilion DV9650US Notebook PC delivers with dual headphone jacks and Altec Lansing audio to share your entertainment. Listen without disturbing others with included stereo earbud headphones. Control content from up to 10 feet away with the HP Mobile Remote Control that can be stored in the system ExpressCard slot for convenience. HP QuickPlay provides access to DVDs, videos, photos, music, karaoke, streamed or recorded TV at the touch of a button. Add music to your slide shows or videos with drag-and-drop functionality. This 7.7-pound light notebook delivers desktop-comparable performance with its 17.0" High-Definition BrightView widescreen display and separate numeric keypad. Intel mobile dual-core technology enables use of multiple demanding applications, such as photo editing and DVD burning while playing a game. Play high-definition DVD movies using the built-in HD DVD-ROM and watch them on TV with the HDMI port. HD DVD-ROM with SuperMulti DVD+-R/RW Double Layer 5-in-1 integrated Digital Media Reader for Secure Digital cards, MultiMedia cards, cards, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro or xD Picture cards 2GB DDR2 System Memory (2 Dimm), Max 4GB 320GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive Intel PRO Wireless 4965AGN Network Connection Integrated 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet LAN (RJ-45 connector) Network Card PC Card Slots - 1 ExpressCard/54 Slot (also supports ExpressCard/34) Security - Kensington MicroSaver lock slot, Power-on password & Accepts 3rd party security lock devices Power - 90W AC Adapter & 8-Cell Lithium-Ion battery Ports - 4x Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0, 2x Headphone out, microphone-in, VGA (15-pin), TV-Out (S-video), RJ-11 (modem), RJ -45 (LAN), notebook expansion port 3, IEEE 1394 Firewire (4-pin) & Consumer IR Operating System - Windows Vista Home Premium Dimensions - Length 15.16 x Width 11.65 x Height 1.57 Weight - 7.7 pounds
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- Excellent machine for the price
- The laptop is of excellent quality with the latest Wifi technology and a very powerfull processing chip. Works for the road as well as a stand-in for a desktop. I recommend the purchase of this beautiful and powerful machine!HP Pavilion DV9620US 17" Entertainment Laptop (AMD Turion 64 Processor TL-58, 2 GB RAM, 240 GB Hard Drive, Vista Premium)
- I bought this computer 2 weeks ago. You get more for the price you pay.
I read the reviews and people complained about the keyboard been hot. Is not annyoing you can get use to it.
Reminder: Uninstall and stop services from the bunch of trash applications that come with Vista and HP tools.
- HP Pavilion DV9623CL refurbished laptop
- 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.
- Some flaws, but a tremendous value nonetheless
- Let's get the negative out of the way.
CON:
- Yes, the right shift button is small. Is that annoying? Sure. Is it a deal breaker? Not in the least. You get used to it after a while.
- The battery life is some 2.5-3 hours. Not horrendous, but you will definitely want to invest in an extra, longer lasting battery.
- There are cooling vents on the bottom of the laptop. The "feet" on the laptop raise the case and allow for proper ventilation. If, like me, you are fond of working with the laptop directly on the bed, that can quickly lead to overheating since you cover the vents. Always use this laptop on a flat surface, even when in bed. A $20 cushioned laptop desk can make your experience more comfortable and pleasant all the way around.
- The TV Tuner heats up quickly.
- Vista. Oy! This not a problem with the laptop itself so much as its a problem in general. Vista is a memory hog. Even when you strip it down to basics and ditch the heavy GUI, Vista still consumes more system resources than XP. Sadly, at the time of this writing, HP doesn't provide a downgrade strategy for this model. Their support site does have _some_ XP drivers for the dv9650us, but none for the SCSI/RAID hard disk controllers. That makes manual downgrading nearly impossible.
Okay. Those are the major negatives to the dv9650us. You might be wondering how I came up to a 5/5 score then. Surely, I must be mistaken. Stay with me.
PRO:
- 17" 1440x900 Widescreen: First of all, the screen is crisp, clear, bright, and utterly gorgeous. Best of all, you can manually turn down the brightness
- 2GB RAM: Naturally, Vista is a bit of a hog, but 2GB is a great deal for this price. Many laptops in this price range still only offer 1GB; some less. Better yet you can upgrade to 4GB if you need the extra RAM. As someone who does a lot of graphics and video work, that's great.
- Core2Duo: Some of you may scream that it's only a T5250 1.5GHz and not a 2.0GHz. Believe me, that is REALLY not a big issue. In fact, the 1.5GHz actually performs nearly as well as my Pentium4 3GHz (HT) and PentiumD 3.4GHz (Dual Core) desktop machines. The multi-threaded performance is very solid, which is great if you use 3D software that takes advantage of the multiple cores.
- 320GB Hard Drive Space: You may be thinking, "Well, I've got a TB on my PC. What's the big deal?" 320GB on a laptop, at this sub-$1,500 price is a wonderful bargain. Very roomy. Some people might find it annoying that the 320GB is actually 2 separate 160GB hard drives, but I prefer it. Keeping your data away from the applications is a smart move though. This way, if the OS somehow gets corrupted, your data stays safe. Plus, if you use Photoshop, keeping your scratch files on a separate drive (not partition) improves performance.
- NVidia GeForce 8600M GS: It's not the top of the line GeForce 8 model, but it is definitely more than powerful enough to handle current games. Desktop 3D performance on a laptop is hard to find, especially at this price. Most sub-$1,500 laptops resort to integrated video. A dedicated 3D card with its own, separate 256MB of RAM pretty sweet.
- HD DVD: Okay, I haven't used this feature yet. I'll admit it. My movie collection is still old school DVD. Still, it's a nice option to have. Most laptops don't include next gen DVD players. Those that do, such as the Sony Vaio models, include Blu-Ray and often cost more if you try to match overall feature sets.
- Hybrid Analog/HD TV Tuner: I am a sucker for this one. The include antenna does a decent, albeit predictable, job of picking up analog signals. However, it really shines with HD signals. I was not even aware that my area was already broadcasting HD over the air yet. This tuner & antenna pick up the HD signals perfectly every time - cable quality reception every time. As an added bonus, the dv9650us includes TWO media center remote controls. The first one is a much more standard sized remote with external USB IR receiver. That's nice and all, but you don't always want to lug around that setup. The second option is the included portable remote, which conveniently stores in the expansion slot and communicates with the built-in IR port.
- ON/OFF button for the touch pad. Such a small feature. So convenient. If you use an external mouse, you can just turn off the touch pad and never worry about accidentally moving the cursor when typing.
- TWO (2) Headphone ports: Great for those long trips where you want to watch a movie with a friend, but don't want to bother everybody else around you.
- Integrated web cam. Some people may gripe that external web cams would provide crisper video. However, as a portable solution for teleconferencing, you could do much worse. It's not meant for creating your next Youtube masterpiece. Why should you expect it to so? I'm in the camp that favors bang for the buck.
- Solid construction: Unlike the Sony Vaio laptops, the HP Pavillion doesn't feel fragile to the touch. You'll still have to treat it with the same respect that you would any other non-rugged laptop, but it doesn't feel at all like a toy. While 7.7lbs might seem heavy for an average portable, remember that we're talking about a 17" widescreen machine that's brimming with desktop level features. In that regard, it's a very manageable weight.
- Attractive design: The smooth, glass-like exterior with its embedded ripple design makes this one of the prettiest laptops to behold, even when closed and turned off. Your friends and colleagues will want to dump their stocky, utilitarian looking laptops in a heartbeat. If fingerprints or smudges easily annoy you then you may want to invest in a handkerchief. However, if you're an iPod or Playstation Portable owner you're probably used to this non-issue already. The sleek, futuristic design is more than worth the occasional fingerprint.
The HP Pavilion DV9650US is not just a steal at this price, but also a miracle. Desktop features and performance without the scary laptop price. I must have researched a couple of dozen laptops before settling on the DV9650US. At the time of this writing, you simply will NOT find a more feature rich laptop for the price. I usually steer far away from HP desktops, but they have done a bang up job on this laptop. In a word, "Wow!"
- The computer came with no software and I had to contact HP for the recovery disks from HP to get Vista Home Premium installed. Other than that the computer is fantastic and I have nothing negative as of yet.
- Everything what I expected
- I just received this notebook. It's just fine for the price you paid for.
Convinient in use, fast, a lot of features...
- Exelent Entertaiment Notebook PC
- This is a fabulous product, with very good features and 100% functional in all its senses, I recommend you buy and not take any disappointment
- Excellent Laptop. I must say this is my first laptop,and it`s amazing, and very beautiful. it have a Big screen and a big and confortable keyboard. The bluetooth and wi-fi are very good value-ads.
At first is a little slow because the first configuration, after that i'ts a F-22.
- thank you amazon, you are an excellent internet shopping center. my computer is realy expensive in my country, venezuela and i could buy it paying less money than here.
i haven't gotten it yet but its a delivery issue with my courrier there in florida.
thank you again. I hope bye more soon.
bye from Mérida, Venezuela.
- Works well but vista isnt as...
- Overall this product performs descently. granted Vista isn't as good as Microsoft claims it to be and trying to downgrade to a earlier OS isnt easy for compatibility issues. But overall the graphics card and overall performance kick butt. 4 star rating by me...5 if Vista wasnt installed.
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- I bought this laptop almost a year ago...I have hated it every minute. It does not work with anything I try to put on it...Photoshop, itunes, etc. Everytime I tried to put my itunes onto it, it removed the CD drive completely. It took only 9 calls to the help people before they told me that this laptop is not compatible with itunes...or anything! It turns off in the middle of working on something and even makes a horrible noise. Not worth a penny! If I could have given it zero stars I would have.
- 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
- 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.
- Poor construction, poor customer service
- HP Pavilion series are not robust, and customer service is poor. The case is plastic and flimsy. Additionally the mother board is thin and tends to crack. There are numerous complaints on the web regarding the power input shorting in a few months due to the mother board cracking around the power input.
Our Pavilion laptop plastic case around the screen cracked 11 months after purchase. It took 5 hours on phone with customer service in India to arrange the laptop to be sent in under warrantee. Warrantee repair involves shipping the laptop by UPS to a repair center.
We recieved computer back from the repair service, and it died 2 weeks later, a week out of warrantee. We had a local repair service have a look at it, and the mother board was too weak with too many cracks to repair. Cost to repair would be $650. We chose to purchase a Dell instead.
We will not be buying another HP product. I have never had a more problematic computer.
- biggest mistake this year
- my computer came with this program i couldn't get off it. its called vista.
all i feel is rage. whoever is responisible for making this computer all i have to say is this:
i'm glad i got this computer, it helped me realize how much better apple is.
- Poor performer, Windows Vista, SLOOOWWWW and incompapible .
- The nice glossy wide screen boots up as slow as Windows 95. The machine comes LOADED with software that you have to "subscribe" to (don't really own yet) like Nortons and MS Office Suite.Looking at the desktop it looks like you have all of these programs to run but do not. Unfortunately, Vista is not compatible with any of the programs that we have tried so far including Nero, Zone Alarm and our business software(update due out next year). We decided to remove Vista, to install XP so that it would run faster and be compatible, but this is not supported by HP and I am told will void the warranty.All of these problems were resolved by selling the machine and buying a new DELL with XP. But,if you are looking for a DVD player and a Web surfer it's great, but slow.
- Hang on to your old XP notebook
- 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
- Be careful and do your research...
- These machines look like great buys but they are often deceptive in what they sell. For instance, HP will often market their graphics cards as having more memory than what they really have. I bought one of the dv9600 series that has 383M of video memory only to find that it has 128M. They say it is ok since their cards share system RAM. (don't all graphics cards??) There are many little things like this in the HP machines.
They have a great price point but in the end you get what you pay for. It will not perform to what you expect for what they list as their features. Dell and others are a bit more honest and as such look more expensive. If you are just looking for cheap and decent quality then HP may work for you.
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- I bought this laptop almost a year ago...I have hated it every minute. It does not work with anything I try to put on it...Photoshop, itunes, etc. Everytime I tried to put my itunes onto it, it removed the CD drive completely. It took only 9 calls to the help people before they told me that this laptop is not compatible with itunes...or anything! It turns off in the middle of working on something and even makes a horrible noise. Not worth a penny! If I could have given it zero stars I would have.
- Hang on to your old XP notebook
- 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
- 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
- Disappointed with the video card
- 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.
- HP Pavilion DV9623CL refurbished laptop
- 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.
- 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.
- Poor construction, poor customer service
- HP Pavilion series are not robust, and customer service is poor. The case is plastic and flimsy. Additionally the mother board is thin and tends to crack. There are numerous complaints on the web regarding the power input shorting in a few months due to the mother board cracking around the power input.
Our Pavilion laptop plastic case around the screen cracked 11 months after purchase. It took 5 hours on phone with customer service in India to arrange the laptop to be sent in under warrantee. Warrantee repair involves shipping the laptop by UPS to a repair center.
We recieved computer back from the repair service, and it died 2 weeks later, a week out of warrantee. We had a local repair service have a look at it, and the mother board was too weak with too many cracks to repair. Cost to repair would be $650. We chose to purchase a Dell instead.
We will not be buying another HP product. I have never had a more problematic computer.
- Revised review downward after eight months of ownership
- I am rewriting my review of this laptop based on eight months of ownership. If I could change my star rating for this product I would downgrade it to two stars.
Over the last eight months this laptop has caused me to develop a strong dislike for both Microsoft Vista and HP. Media Center, which is the main reason I bought the laptop, has worked fairly well, although lately certain recordings randomly lock up and then advance a few frames at a time (fortunately I can convert Microsoft's dvr-ms format to an mpeg, which seems to solve the problem). But Vista has caused me nothing but headaches. Blue screens, crashes, restarts, programs "not responding" (like Windows Explorer and the new version of Firefox), slow copying and moving of files, Vista's inability to detect XP computers on a network in anything less than three hours -- there's more but I'm trying to keep this brief.
Waking up to "your system has recovered from a serious error" has been a twice-a-week occurrence, and while MS's many updates did speed up the boot time from 5 to 3 minutes, it hasn't improved overall performance and even made some things worse (like Media Center, see the above).
Add to Vista's many shortcomings HP's heavy hand on the proceedings -- dozens of redundant programs and free trials to be uninstalled (do we really need HP's own media player when we already have Media Center, Windows Media Player and perhaps a third player of our own choosing?). Also, be careful what you uninstall -- getting rid of Roxio's Creator Basic will break your DVD drive.
The NVIDIA video driver that HP mandates for this laptop crashes the machine on a regular basis. HP hasn't updated the driver on its own site and downloading the latest version from NVIDIA doesn't solve the problem either.
Finally, HP's "diskless" hard-drive based recovery system is a bad joke. The recovery partition can easily become corrupted (mine did) and HP support only grudgingly agreed to send me recovery disks free of charge.
This laptop seemed like a bargain eight months ago as a dedicated HTPC with an HDMI output and Windows Media Center. Today, knowing what I know now, I would probably not buy it again, even at several hundred dollars less. It is clunky, kludgy and underpowered (who would have thought that a dual-core processor and 2 GB of RAM would be underpowered?), and I am seriously considering a "downgrade" from Vista to Windows XP MCE. Wish me luck.
Vista and HP, terrible together.
- biggest mistake this year
- my computer came with this program i couldn't get off it. its called vista.
all i feel is rage. whoever is responisible for making this computer all i have to say is this:
i'm glad i got this computer, it helped me realize how much better apple is.
- I was pleased with the processor speed and performance, however the integrated graphics as opposed to a stand alone graphics card, was a real let-down.
Several games simply lock-up, or the video jumps so much as to render them unplayable.
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