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Summary: Get a gym membership first...
Review: Pros: 1) Big Screen is great(obviously) 2) Keyboard has nice clicky feel. 3) 4 USB 2.0 ports is never too many 4) Nice overall design and looks 5) Sound from Harmon/Kardon speakers is excellent and rich 6) Built-in WiFi reception is exceptional and very convenient 7) Easy to change/upgrade memory and hard drive with simple access doors(great design) 8) Scrolling feature on trackpad works very well 9) I don't use my desktop anymore.Cons: 1) Silver laptop finish scratches off easily 2) No Serial port 3) Screen can be brighter, more vivid and have better control 4) Requires 120w. Currently computer cannot be powered on airplanes which limits supply power to transformers to 75w. 5) Fragile because of size and weight. 6) Customer phone system support is poor and can be improved. 7) Security slot does not accept new style APC studs. 8) Off-center trackpad location questionable. 9) Does not accept Compact flash cards directly (Accepts a number of other memory cards) 10) Fans are noisy and you really notice how quite it gets when you shut down the machine. 11) Exhaust fans (2 fans) are located at the bottom of the machine and may be blocked if laptop is not placed on a rigid and flat surface when machine is on.
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Summary: Awesome desktop replacement!
Review: Slices, dices and does julienne fries!
Serious desktop replacement!
I use it 8 hrs / day doing CADD work - it's awesome!
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Summary: One unreal Notebook that can easily replace a desktop
Review: The HP zd7010us is not for the "light of heart" PC user. First, it is big with the 17 ich screen and heavy (about 9 pounds) and unfort. with the high speed of this unit and the brillent display comes one big problem for portable use. The battery life. If you turn off most everything and are very carefull about the screen (use more contrast and less brightness) and do not access the hard drive to often, you can get maybe an hour of life and that is it. 45 mins is more the normal, so if you have a long plane flight, take a plane adapter or a extra battery or so. So thats the bad stuff.
This thing is amazing at its speed, you rarely will see the hourglass display come on. The screen is great, very bright and clear, much like a desktop hgh end LCD monitor and the 17 inch size is great as you can see a full two pages of info, great for looking at two web pages at once. The sound with the Harmon Kardon speaker system is fantastic, I play "Titanic" on it and it sounded like you were at the movies. The disk access is fast and quite and the Wireless works without a hitch. Also its neat that it comes with a bult in card reader for up to seven different kinds of memory cards so no adapters are ever needed for this one, The keyboard has a excellent feel to it and the keys are well spaced and its nice having a seperate keypad. I found thee mouse touch pad to work very well and smooth, unlike alot of touchpads this one does not skip around. It has a large surface area that doubles as a wrist rest on the unit and the 60 GB hard driveis plenty. I might want to upgrade the memory to 1 GB some day, but in everything I did, the standard memory worked just fine and that involved many very large JPG files from my 6.3 MP camera. Even thou this is a large notebook, it has such a neat modern style that it looks very thin and you do not realize just ow large it is until its on your lap. I hardly ever used my desktop system anymore as this unit is so darn fast and everything just works fine. I have never had to reboot the machine and cannot find a single software problem. I updated mine with Windows Office 2003 and OneNote and that makes a fantastic combination on the unit. Be prepared that if you use this PC in public, you will get alot of people looking over your schoulder and asking "what is that" some think its the 17" Mac, but everyone that looks at it loves it. With the large frame, is helps out in the CPU problem of getting to ot to have in your lap, this one only feels a little bit warm.
I cannot think of anything I would change on this unit (other then better battery life) but then with this speed CPU and screen size, I would not expect the worlds best battery life. I would say that HP has a very clear winner in this model !
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Summary: HP Pavilion zd7010us
Review: This computer rocks. The screen is simply amazing. The keypad is a great feature. I have no complaints whatsoever. Definitely recommended.
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Summary: Best 17" Laptop on Earth!!!!
Review: This is an excellent laptop, It is well worth the money.
The Harmon/Kardon Speakers give a crisp clear sound with more bass than any other Laptop speaker i have ever heard before!
The 17" screen is great for playing games, and the GForce FX 5600 w/ 128 MB of ram is excellent on mine!!! The 2.66 Ghz is enough to run any application or game flawlessly. and the thing i like most is how good the touchpad works. Hp has also incorporated a media card reader which unfortunatly does not support the "compact Flash" type cards. There are a couple of BAD things though that should be seriously considered before buying this laptop!!!
The desktop processor eats up the battery as fast as 1 hour and 45 minutes, of course there are things you can do to extend the life to around 2 hours and 20minutes like dimming the screen, turning off speakers/ WiFi, and using the Nvidia low power feature. The two Vacumme cleaner fans on the bottom are loud and can be blocked easily, but it does keep the laptop very cool. But back to the good things, there are 4 USB 2.0 ports and a built-in Firewire port. This laptop is not what you could consider "ultra portable" but it is usable on an airplane!!! all you need to so is buy an AMP, then you can easily get 300Watts of power from any 12 volt ciggerette lighter plug. I do not regret buying this laptop at all.
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Summary: Best 17" Laptop on Earth!!!!
Review: This is an excellent laptop, It is well worth the money.
The Harmon/Kardon Speakers give a crisp clear sound with more bass than any other Laptop speaker i have ever heard before!
The 17" screen is great for playing games, and the GForce FX 5600 w/ 128 MB of ram is excellent on mine!!! The 2.66 Ghz is enough to run any application or game flawlessly. and the thing i like most is how good the touchpad works. Hp has also incorporated a media card reader which unfortunatly does not support the "compact Flash" type cards. There are a couple of BAD things though that should be seriously considered before buying this laptop!!!
The desktop processor eats up the battery as fast as 1 hour and 45 minutes, of course there are things you can do to extend the life to around 2 hours and 20minutes like dimming the screen, turning off speakers/ WiFi, and using the Nvidia low power feature. The two Vacumme cleaner fans on the bottom are loud and can be blocked easily, but it does keep the laptop very cool. But back to the good things, there are 4 USB 2.0 ports and a built-in Firewire port. This laptop is not what you could consider "ultra portable" but it is usable on an airplane!!! all you need to so is buy an AMP, then you can easily get 300Watts of power from any 12 volt ciggerette lighter plug. I do not regret buying this laptop at all.
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Summary: This computer is a NIGHTMARE
Review: Warning. DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT. We purchased the 40gb disk version and got it home to discover (eventually) that the internal modem (analog connection) was faulty. This took a day of unpaid beta testing (yes I am angry) to work out and eventually the shop, Karstadt, in Germany refunded our money (on our second visit - the first visit they insisted we test it with a different cable). So that was two days wasted. Then we went to another shop and bought the 60Gb version. Yes, the modem worked and we could log on to the internet. Then the problems really started. The computer crashed and then recovered and each time the period of OK working was shorter until after the third crash it was crashing as soon as a connection to the internet (a different service provider each time) was made. On Monday I expect to take it back and demand a refund and waste another 4 hours of my time (after more unpaid beta testing. Do yourself a favour. DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT.
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