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HP Pavilion DV9233EU
4.6 stars
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Average Ratings for HP Pavilion DV9233EU

  • Screen Quality4.5 stars
  • Battery Life3.5 stars
  • Ease of Use3.3 stars
  • Value for Money3.3 stars
  • Reviewer Ratings4.3 stars
  • Overall Rating4.6 stars

2 Reviews For HP Pavilion DV9233EU

  • bmn 15th Nov 2007

    Reviewer rating: 4.5 stars


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    Good Points: 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.


    Bad Points: 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.


    General comments: 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.

  • maurice2007 Rank: Lance Corporal 23rd Aug 2007

    Reviewer rating: 4 stars


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    Have had this for only 3 months but it looks like something that will last.