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More…The dv9000t is HP's new entertainment laptop with a 17-inch high-definition screen and a combo HD DVD player/double-layer DVD burner. With the dv9000t, you can stash hundreds of photos and MP3s on up to 240GB of storage provided by dual hard drives. You can also enjoy music and crisp movie dialogue from good stereo speakers, or listen privately with a friend using the dual headphones port. Online, you can personalize chatting with the optional integrated Webcam.
HP Pavilion dv9000t
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Storage
| Total HD Size | 200 GB |
| Optical Drive Type | HDDVD-ROM |
| Optical Drive Speed | 2.4 |
| Removable Optical Drive | No |
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| Number of Media Slots | 4 |
Battery
| Number of Included Batteries | 1 |
| Standard Number of Batteries | 1 |
| Type of Batteries | Lithium ion |
| Vendor Rated Battery life | 236 |
Networking
| Bluetooth | No |
| Included network card | Gigabit ethernet |
| Modem Type | V.92 |
| Wireless LAN Type | 802.11a/g |
Multimedia
| Video chipset | nVidia GeForce Go 7600 |
| Installed video memory | 256 MB |
| Video integration | Integrated |
Software
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| Operating system | Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition |
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Pros
Has a designer look
Includes dual hard drives and a Webcam
Cons
So-so battery life
Bottom Line
The dv9000t is a powerful notebook capable of handling any type of work comfortably.
HP Pavilion dv9000t
Pavilion dv9000t Review, by Carla Thornton November 20, 2006
Pricing for the dv9000 line is very flexible, starting at $879 for the dv9000z with an AMD processor and a single hard drive, and topping out at around $2700 for an Intel-based dv9000t with all the trimmings. Our $2530 (as of 11/6/06) dv9000t review unit featured a 2-GHz Core 2 Duo T7200 processor, 2GB of RAM, XP Media Center Edition, dual 100GB hard drives, a 256MB nVidia GeForce Go 7600 graphics card, and the HD DVD drive.
The dv9000t shares several especially nice design features with its dv6000 and dv2000 siblings. These including hidden hinges and a gorgeous glossy piano-black finish with a subtle wave pattern. With the notebook turned off, a swipe of the finger across a backlit touch-sensitive media and volume-control panel located above the keyboard launches the HP QuickPlay menu for direct access to your movie, music, video, and slide-show collections. Using the Windows Media Center operating system, the dv9000t can pause and record live TV programs.
The dv9000t is not heavy for a 17-inch-screen laptop, coming in at just 8 pounds (not including the power adapter), so you can take it with you. The standard 8-cell battery lasted only 2.6 hours in our tests, though, so consider opting for the high-capacity version.
Our review unit also included the TV tuner kit needed to connect the dv9000t to an analog cable box or a set-top box. HP believes in the strict separation of notebook and TV tuner, to make upgrades to future technology easier, so catching Grey's Anatomy on this notebook (or any other Pavilion) requires three extra pieces of hardware: the HP ExpressCard Analog TV Tuner, its coaxial adapter cable, and a USB receiver for the Windows remote control.
The dv9000t is a powerful notebook capable of comfortably handling any type of work, from photo editing to heavy number crunching. Its WorldBench 5 score of 117 edged out the 109 score earned by its chief competitor, the Toshiba Qosmio.
The dv9000t would make an excellent desktop replacement: It includes a touchpad-equipped keyboard that's so well laid out, I hardly noticed that the right Shift key is no bigger than a regular alphanumeric key. The Shift key was no doubt shrunk to accommodate the separate numerical keypad, a nice extra rarely found on laptops. And unlike with most notebooks, the mouse buttons are very responsive, depressing deeply into the case.
If you do decide to chuck your old desktop for the dv9000t, consider treating yourself to the HP xb3000 Notebook Expansion Base for docking. A screen stand on steroids, the Base includes port replication for cable management, internal housing for a third hard drive, and built-in premium speakers. A wireless keyboard and mouse come with it.
Carla Thornton
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PCWorld Lab Results
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Performance Comparison with Similar Laptops
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Performance
| ACD Systems ACDSee | 582 |
| Adobe Photoshop | 295 |
| Adobe Premiere | 397 |
| Ahead Nero | 276 |
| Battery Life (Office Applications) | 2:36 |
| Discreet 3ds Max DirectX | 263 |
| Discreet 3ds Max OpenGL | 289 |
| Doom 3, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit | 99.1 |
| Far Cry, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit | 129.71 |
| Microsoft Office XP | 534 |
| Mozilla | 340 |
| Musicmatch Jukebox | 470 |
| Number of Included Batteries | 1 |
| Return to Castle Wolfenstein, 1024 by 768, 16-Bit | 138.67 |
| Return to Castle Wolfenstein, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit | 137 |
| Return to Castle Wolfenstein, 1280 by 1024, 32-Bit | 0 |
| Roxio VideoWave | 243 |
| Unreal Tournament, 1024 by 768, 16-Bit | 416.77 |
| Unreal Tournament, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit | 375.29 |
| Unreal Tournament, 1280 by 1024, 32-Bit | 0 |
| Windows Media Encoder | 268 |
| WinZip | 278 |
| World Bench 5 Score | 117 |
| World Bench 5 Word Score | Superior |
WorldBench Tests
| Multitasking | 404 |
User Reviews
Average User Reviews for HP Pavilion dv9000t
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Reviewed by: mikedgolf40505
Duration of ownership: 2 Weeks
Strengths: Duo Core processors are not just hype. Amazingly fast and agile. Much faster than my old Dell 5150 with 3.06 H/T. I would recommend buying it with everything (your going to spend money anyway), I got the 2GB RAM and the 2.0 Duo Core, also love the 100GB 7200 RPM hard drive and the advanced graphics card. Very beautiful looking machine as well.
Weaknesses: Case will show every fingerprint
Overall: HP has outdone themselves with this beautiful workhorse. I shopped Dell, Gateway and Toshiba also before settling on the HP dv9000t and am glad that I did. The fastest computer I have ever seen, just incredible for multitasking. I can see why the editors rated it the number one power laptop for a reason.
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Reviewed by: powermacj7
Duration of ownership: 2 Months
Strengths: Excellent screen, great keyboard with good feedback. HP added features made it a great laptop. AMD Turion give great performance.
Weaknesses: Keyboard can be a bit noisy.
Overall: Using only Macintosh for 18 years, this is my first PC. I switched because the screen, at 17inch has great colors with smooth fonts. The keyboard has excellent feedback with full size keys. HP does a great job of adding features to enhance the product with multi-media tools.
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Reviewed by: slqs
Duration of ownership: 2 Years
Strengths: SUPERFAST DUO CORE 1.83GHZ ONLY AFTER YOU PUT IN 100 HOURS OF DELETEING ALL THE HP CRAPWARE
Weaknesses: CRAPWARE AND QUICKPLAY BUTTONS HAVE NOT EVER WORKED WITHOUT WINDOWS BOOT! TRYING TO GET HELP FROM HP TECH LINE IS NOT GOOD! I FINALLY DID WHAT THE H[P TECHS SAID AND REINSTALLED THE RECOVERY DISC THAT I BOUGHT WITH THIS NEW NOTEBOOK 2 MONTHS AGO! WELL BUTTONS STILL DONT WORK, AND NOW ALL THE SONIC SOFTWARE IS GONE , IT IS NOT ON THE RECOVERY DISCS FROM HP $19.99 IT WOULD BE NICE TO GET THE ORIGINAL OPERATING SYSTEM
Overall: GREAT LAPTOP BUT WILL NOT BUY FROM HP AGAIN!
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Reviewed by: groshans
Duration of ownership: 2 Months
Strengths: I love its stylish look and the AMD X2 processor seems to be out performing the Intel Core 2 Duo.
Weaknesses: Colors, a lot of people would like to see colorful covers instead of the same old black or grey. Maybe throw in a red or blue cover.
Overall: I love how light it is for a 17inch screen. I battery life seems to stand up against the best. My prior laptop was a Mac I-book G4. I like the small size, until I saw this 17 inch with the extra 10 key pad. This is my second HP laptop, but I prefer the AMD over the Intel, and thats why I switched.
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