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| Screen Quality | 9/10  |
|---|---|
| Battery Life | 7/10 |
| Ease of Use | 6.5/10 |
| Value for Money | 6.5/10 |
| Reviewer Rating | 8.5/10 |
| Overall Rating | 9.1/10  |
By bmn on 15th Nov 2007
| Time Laptop Owned | 6 - 12 Months |
|---|---|
| Screen Quality | 10/10 |
| Battery Life | 6/10 |
| Ease of Use | 7/10 |
| Value for money | 8/10 |
| Overall value | 9/10 |
 bmn's recommendation | |
Vista "Windows Experience Index" rating of 4.5/4.6 depending on run. Very powerful graphics card for a laptop. Ignore what the other guy said about boot times in Vista - yes it sucks - but if you actually heed Microsoft's advice and use hibernate instead, which is intended with Vista, boot from switched off is approximately 30 secs and FAR faster (this is slightly tuned without unneeded startup/service/sidebar rubbish). Memory is adequate, but you may be better off getting 2GB instead (replacing both 512MBs inside with 1GBs).
Note the one of the biggest battery drains in Vista on a laptop is the background indexing service - this increases hard disk usage - disable it in the services.
Battery poor - after a few months battery life will decrease from 2.5 hours to ~1.5 hours. Order a new one from ebay on import for ~£35 when this happens - HP want to charge ~£100. The 120GB hard disk is ~106 GB - 5GB is a rescue partition, the rest is down to hard disk maths. Can get hot underneath - use a notebook cooler.
I've had this machine for a year. Once you've removed the Vista and HP bloat, sidebar, indexing service, roxio evaluation versions and services etc etc. and update the graphics drivers from N Vidia it's actually very powerful.
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