Rating: 
Summary: Excellent Value for the Price
Review: Ok, I am a past Thinkpad R30 owner, it was refurbished system with a lot of problems later on, I had bought it for ... and just sold it for .... Basically, I wanted a new Thinkpad but they are expensive, so I got this for ... after rebate from Circuit City, I recommend Circuit City becz of their return policy, no restocking fee like the others such as BestBuy and CompUSA.PROS
Beautiful machine at a great price, the specs are great. Cons
Has XP Home and the freaking touchpad, I hate the touchpad, I love the trackpoints and wish it was on this, that is the only reason dwelling in my head to return this machine, but for $700, ehh, I can buy two these for the same price as a Thinkpad. Lastly, no built in wireless, I am looking in to finding a wifi mini card so I can install it, otherwise would have to use pcmcia card. There is a review on the following website in more detail about the specs. ... Overall, buy it for the price and value, if you have the extra $$$ then get a Thinkpad or something. This is perfect for college students and home users, its a good for somewhat mobile users, but not really a corporate/business machine. Bottom Line - Five Stars for the price and value compared to others.
Rating: 
Summary: Crappy keyboard ruins otherwise solid notebook
Review: The HP Pavilion ze4610us is my 3rd HP/Compaq laptop. I've been generally pleased with their products (before and after the merger). The performance and features of this ze4600-series laptop have met or exceeded my expectations. System benchmarks were very good, the fan is well designed, system noise is very low, and battery life is excellent. HOWEVER: THE KEYBOARD IS CRAP! The keys are so incredibly stiff that every sentence I type has several missing characters. I've never seen anything like this. I have to *pound* on the keys to get them to work, and even then they're not reliable. I'm still getting missing characters or character doubling due to key bounce. The crappy HP keyboard on the ze4610us is simply unacceptable, and completely ruins an otherwise excellent notebook computer with great benchmark numbers and very long battery life. Now I know why Circuit City and other retailers were blowing out these units on rock bottom mega-sale. If you are a ham-fisted typist who relies upon spell checking for everything, you might be OK with this notebook. If you type normally or prefer light-action keyboards, and expect the keys that you type to always work reliably, avoid this notebook and get an IBM Thinkpad or Toshiba Satellite.
Rating: 
Summary: Can you say junk?
Review: This machine has been VERY disappointing. When it runs, it's fine. It just doesn't run very often. Machine has been to HP for repair 3 times in the first 10 months I have owned it. Overheats and turns itself off, screen will go black if it is moved, mouse constantly freezes and locks and machine has to be rebooted. I've raised enough stink with HP they are replacing it with a higher end model a ZV. If you buy this machine due to it's attractive price, buy an extended warranty and be prepared to be without it often.
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