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Summary: She's Growing on Me
Review: I wanted a relatively inexpensive laptop that had lots of features. This one fit the bill. I lovingly carried it home, set it up, and pressed 'windows update' and promptly crashed the machine.For the next day, there were so many errors and blue screens of death, I had to wipe the entire system. By that time, I was so ticked off, I was ready to stuff it back in the box and take it back. However, as it turns out, this has happened to more than one or two HP users I know and they gave me some good advice. They told me to just restore from disk. When I restored from disk, it took off all HP's 'special' features and returned it to stable safe XP. Since then, the computer has run like a dream, and though I have bitter first memories of her, I'm starting to love her now. She's fast, she's reliable, and her display is beautiful. She's relatively lightweight and attractive too (though, don't put her next to a mac or she'll become an ugly duckling). So, the machine seems to be solid. It's just whatever configuration that HP puts on the machine from factory that seems to be the problem. I might start recommending to people that they just restore from disk the second they take it out of the box and be done with it.
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Summary: HP Laptops Poor Quality, Poor Support
Review: My HP zt1170 had the backlight on the LCD go out. Its just over a year old and just off warranty. They wanted almost $800 for the repair, but we settled for $577. Since that fix the LCD has failed twice and the hard drive crashed and had to be replaced. Fix #1 lasted 2 weeks. Fix #2 lasted only 2 months and they tried to stick me for another $649 by claiming I physically damaged/cracked the LCD which voided the warranty. Their word against mine, but I watched the LT fail each time and told them either they're lying or it was damaged in transit. I've spent countless hours on hold writing letters trying to communicate with Indian tech support with limited english language skills. I finally got them to repair my LT, but I feel like with the poor reliability history that its days may be numbered. If it dies again then I'm cutting my losses and scrapping it. HP is poor quality and support that at best is contemptuous of the customer
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Summary: Seems to be a great value
Review: Our software came preloaded...no problems... Easy to use (after usual fresh out of the box chin pulling). Wireless 802.11 works great w/ NetgearMR814 Router. Great quality, great price. Still debating on extended warrantee option.
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Summary: DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME BUYING IT!!!
Review: This computer is very flakey. It cannot play any games more than once and has many little bugs, like all Hp's.I have never had a realiable Hp plus any notebook that has a shared graphic card or "vidieo ram" will not play vidieo games. No Hp notebooks play vidieo games. I reccomend Toshiba notebooks more.
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Summary: It's great except the screen
Review: This laptop works great. The only thing I don't like is the LCD, I think the screen/color is poor compare to sony or dell. If you are going to purchase this piece, be sure to see the product first.
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