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HP HP Pavilion dv9500t

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Good
  • Pros
  • Option for second hard drive
  • Good entertainment features
  • Cons
  • Occassionally awkward right Shift key

HP Pavilion dv9500t Review

by Carla Thornton

- For people who like designer notebooks, HP has produced another sure winner in the Pavilion dv9500t. This desktop replacement offers the same stylish swirl case pattern, dropped hinges, and piano-black lid as its predecessor, the dv9000t, but with several important improvements, including Intel's latest Santa Rosa mobile processor.

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User Reviews for HP HP Pavilion dv9500t

  • Reviewed by: tonyaguilar70

    Duration of ownership: 6 Months

    Strengths: By buying this machine I learned NEVER to buy an HP product again.

    Weaknesses: HP is not honest and put machines out in the market knowing they will cause lots of problems.

    Overall Evaluation: This is the perfect laptop if you enjoy restoring your system at least once every month, reloading everything and losing valuable information, then send it three times to HP for repair, get it back with same problems, and finally after 6 months, give up return it and find out they will take 10% for every month you owned it. Bought it at $2700 including extended warranty and after months of frustation, got $1080. Unbeatable!!!!!!!!! Went back to Sony (4th Sony), now a AR670cto, 1960X1200, bluray,8600GT GPU, for $2200, and all I have to do is to enjoy it as it should be. Thanks HP, I won't forget my lesson!!!

  • Reviewed by: tech45

    Duration of ownership: 2 Months

    Strengths: Excellent value, for game use i suggest the 2.4mhz porcessor and the 7200 Speed Gard Drive with 2 megs of ram. Only major reason not to purchase this machine is a software bug see weaknesses.

    Weaknesses: Perlininary results found on other review forums as well as myself finds that units purchased between Sept and possible to durrent day have a defect in the restoration disks from HP and those obtained by tech. support ginve a SKU and Regions Mismatch error which prevendts the unit from re-loading the Vista operating system. HP has been notified to current long term solution has been offered at this time.

    Overall Evaluation: Except for the restoration problem should your laptop need it this laptop is excellent. i equiped my system as follows; 2.4 Intel Processor 2 megs Ram 120 SATA Drive 256 Nvidia Geoforce 8600M GS Intel pro/wireless 4865 GN network w/bluetooth 17" Ultra Brightview widescreen 1440x900 Vista premium High capacity Battery Lightscribe supermulti DVD w/double layer HP imprint+fingerprint reader+microphone HP Express Digital/Analog TV Tuner Mobile Stereo Earbud Headphones System Revoery Disk I ran several games including Company of Hereos at its top graphics level wiht no problem. The Ultra bright screen is clar and crisp. the seperate keypad is great. The fingerprint reader takes a little gettting used to but it seems to get better with use. I think this is the best laptop for the money BUT HP needs to fix the problem with thier restoration disks not matching thier hardware thus preventing the operating system being re-loaded should the hardrive and the disk you make as an image from thesystem fail.

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