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I bought this laptop for my Sister who is fairly computer illiterate, however I thought with a little time she would be able to figure it out. In addition, I wanted to check it out for myself being it is a new concept and being the nerdy IT guy in the family, I just had to fiddle with it. I like it! It does take some getting used to as others have mentioned (Touchpad is a learning curve, but nothing a usb mouse can't fix if your struggling). The laptop basically is a tablet that is much easier and faster to navigate and use(If your used to a PC). I chose the solid state drive because I thought the less moving parts the better and quieter. I haven't much time on it yet to give a really in depth review however I did come across a big problem with it after just one week that I wanted to share with everyone. The keyboard just stopped working out of the blue one day! Actually what occurred was the keys changed characters and you would get another letter when striking any key (ex. L would produce an R?)which unfortunately rendered the laptop completely useless. I could not troubleshoot it on my own even for a minute with this kind of problem. So I opted to reach out to Acer customer service via their on-line support chat. The support tech was nice however it seemed to me I just knew a little more about laptops than he did. Long story short, I had to put my 2 cents into the conversation in order for him to agree to offer something other than sending it back for repair. I was able to get them to provide a step by step re-load of the Chrome operating system which did fix the laptop! I have included those steps here in case anyone runs into a similar problem and does not want to send theirs back for repair. (See below:)

Additionally I have found that the laptop consistently loses the wifi connection and I have to restablish a connection often. I have had some issues with my wireless routers recently as well so this may be a mute point but I thought it was worth mentioning. All in all I like it so far and even though we've had some breaks along the way, they were fixable ones. It is working fine now and I would still reccommend the laptop for web surfing, FB, music & video streaming etc.

Here are the re-install steps from Acer support:

** One caveat is that I believe these steps below are specific to the solid state drive version and not a SATA drive version so please beware of your version beforehand!

The following steps outline how you reinstall Chrome OS by erasing the stateful partition:

1. Turn off your Chromebook.

2. Press and hold the esc key and refresh (F3) key and then press the power key to turn on the Chromebook.

3. The Chromebook will boot to Developer Mode. Press the ctrl key and the d key to turn off OS verification.

4. When prompted to turn OS verification off, press the enter key.

5. The Chromebook restarts.

6. At the OS verification is OFF screen, do not press the Spacebar. The recovery process will start automatically after approximately 15 seconds.

7. The Chromebook begins erasing the stateful partition. This process takes about 5 minutes. A progress bar appears at the top of the screen.

8. The Chromebook restarts and prompts to re-enable verification. Press the spacebar key.

9. Press the enter key to confirm you wish to turn OS verification on.

10. OS verification is back on and Chromebook reboots automatically.

11. The "Welcome!" screen will be displayed and you can complete the OOBE.

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The Acer Chromebook is great as an alternate computer. I've had it for about a week now and there have been zero issues. It runs fast, the keyboard is great, and the touchpad is nice. I use this mainly as a second machine. I have a desktop and this ifs great to use while on the go or if I don't want to go and sit at my desk. Please be aware of what you are buying before you buy it is important. This is NOT a full blown computer. You cannot get Microsoft word on it or any other software outside of the google store.

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Update: the Acer C710-2833 is being replaced by the Acer C710-2834. Go there for the $199 machine sold by Amazon! (If the shipping delay on the 2834 is too long, and the cost of the 2833 is over $199 at Amazon, note that Best Buy and Newegg still have the 2833 for $199.)

Thank goodness---Amazon is finally offering the Acer C7 directly at the canonical $199 price! I'm moving my big Acer C7 review (with the appropriate new information for the changed hard drive) from its original home at Acer C7 C710-2847 Chromebook.

Executive summary: $199 is a great price. Chrome OS is quite an interesting and enjoyable computing environment which serves a wide range of needs (close to all of my family's computer use for sure). The Acer C7's performance is noticeably better than that of the $249 Samsung ARM Chromebook for certain things, notably 720p video and Flash games. Plus, the Acer can be opened up and upgraded, unlike the Samsung. Along with "cheaper" those are basically the only areas in which the Acer beats the Samsung, but those made my decision for me. The major flaws of the Acer C7 are the tiny hard-to-use cursor keys, and the downright horrible speakers; the major flaws of Chrome OS, for me, are local network file access and limited supported media formats. Those are significant problems, but for $199 they are not showstoppers.

I'm quite fond of my Acer C7 Chromebook. The overwhelming feature is the price. $199!

Chrome OS offers a zero-maintenance solution to having a second computer around for family members who essentially only need a web browser anyway. I've come to really enjoy using it. I enjoy knowing that I will never need to provide much tech support for it.

A potential buyer of the Acer C7 might also be considering the $249 Samsung ARM Chromebook. I think the Samsung Chromebook is substantially more beautiful, has no fan, and has a much better keyboard and speaker. However, it is underpowered. At Best Buy I was able to try them side by side. The Acer was able to handle 720p video from YouTube almost (though not quite) perfectly; on the Samsung dropped frames were much more noticeable. I also tried a Flash game, Bloons Tower Defense 5, which I've noticed is surprisingly stressful for my older laptops. It runs fine on the Acer C7, but is very choppy on the Samsung. Finally, it is easy (if potentially warranty-breaking) to expand the RAM on the Acer C7 up to 16GB (!), and even to replace the hard drive (probably not necessary for most users). The Samsung ARM Chromebook is essentially impossible to upgrade. That, for me, was the clincher.

The Acer C7, though not actually ugly, is not a particularly pretty machine. The plastic around the display has a particularly cheap look-and-feel. The hinge at least feels strong. The display itself is reasonably nice, with a decent viewing angle. It's glossy.

I do not like the keyboard. I think overall it's not a great keyboard (especially compared to the Samsung ARM Chromebook which has a lovely pleasant-to-use keyboard). The really awful thing is the cursor keys, which are startlingly small and also scrunched up with the page up and down keys. It is really, really unpleasant to use the cursor keys on this keyboard. There are other oddities, if not real problems. The Enter key is oddly shaped for no apparent reason other than gratuitous ugliness. The keyboard has a Fn key, the only purpose of which is to have a Wifi-Disable keypress Fn-F11 (did anyone really need that?) and to send function keys over Chrome Remote Desktop (I suppose someone might need that---but I regret having a whole key for it in prime territory). This keyboard puts extra Chrome OS Search keys down with the Control and Alt keys, which is unusual in Chrome OS devices, but it does work to my benefit as it sends Command to Macs over Chrome Remote Desktop. In case it helps anyone, right-Control also sends Command.

I like the Chrome OS keys for back, forward, refresh, full screen, and next window.

The touchpad is quite a bit more resistant to clicking than I would like. I use tap-to-click instead, but there's no tap-only variant of click-and-drag. (I want the 3-finger drag from Apple.)

I often use this Chromebook attached to an external display (and keyboard and mouse... think of it as a desktop replacement!). When I first posted this review I mentioned some issues with this configuration. A Chrome OS update in mid-February 2013 fully resolved these issues for me. The OS auto-update feature is delightful, by the way, automatic and non-intrusive.

With an external Mac keyboard, Command sends Control, which is great for someone whose hands are used to Mac key shortcuts.

The absolute worst thing about the Acer C7 is the speakers. They are bad. Really, really, bad. They're quiet and tinny and I can hardly stand to listen to them. I'm no audiophile, either---I think almost anyone who uses this machine will cringe a little bit at the sound quality. Was this really necessary to hit this price point? Be prepared to use headphones or external speakers. (And not Bluetooth external speakers... I'm told they are not supported in Chrome OS at all, and this machine doesn't have Bluetooth anyway.)

The fan is audible. Not awful, but this is no silent machine.

This newer Acer C7 C710-2833 has a 16GB SSD instead of the old 320GB spinning hard drive. This is a good thing---many users will see more benefits from a small fast silent SSD than from a big slow noisy hard drive! Some thoughts in case you're worried about little disk space: As far as I can tell the only filesystem access you get is your Downloads folder. Which the OS is allowed to clear at will to free up space! Chrome OS was designed for minimal local storage, and frankly I don't see how much more space will ever be that useful. I suppose there's the "load it up with movies before the car trip" argument. But in general I think most users will benefit more from a silent, fast, tiny SSD for normal use; you can bring your movies on an external hard drive.

I wish it had USB 3.0. Oh well. (Another point in favor of the Samsung ARM Chromebook, there.)

On to software. You can use the Web. You can get a terminal with Control-Alt-T and use ssh (but no real local shell). Chrome Remote Desktop is entirely usable. Google Cloud Print seems to work fine, for those of us who have an always-on computer around anyway. Offline Gmail and Google Docs are great if you sometimes lack internet access. Flash games work fine. Google Hangouts has a dumb name but is a fantastic videoconferencing product (the camera and microphone are fine).

While I'm on Chrome Remote Desktop: You'll want to right-click the app icon to get it to "open as window", because if it opens as a tab Chrome itself will consume keypresses like control-N and control-W instead of sending them to the remote host.

One thing that is lacking is the ability is access network file storage. We have an always-on computer filled with video and audio and I'd like to be able to access those files conveniently. What I've done that's workable is started an FTP server on that machine. But it's not a great interface, and each file has to be downloaded before playing, rather than being streamed. "Sneakernet" via USB drive works fine too of course. I think there is pay software, like TVersity, that will set up a media server for you with a nice HTTP interface, but I haven't tried it. And I wish this was built in.

Media playing is a mixed bag. This is irritating... why can't every computer just come with a player as nearly universal as VLC? I haven't had trouble with audio; it seems to play my various mp3, m4a, flac, and wav files just fine. Video is trickier. It seems to play mp4 files happily. It will play some avi files, but not others. Wmv files don't work. For the somewhat technically proficient: you can convert to Chromebook-playable MP4 using various products, like Handbrake or VLC, or the command-line tool ffmpeg: "ffmpeg -i file.avi -c copy file.mp4", "ffmpeg -i file.avi -qscale 5 -strict -2 file.mp4", and "ffmpeg -i file.wmv -qscale 2 file.mp4" are three simple sets of options I've found useful. Frankly having to learn about ffmpeg is, again, irritating; this should just work.

You can enter Developer Mode using a particular keystroke during bootup. This gives you a root shell which potentially allows all kinds of fun. It also wipes all storage in your "stateful partition", so don't do this after filling up your hard drive with things you want (generally unlikely). The wiping also happens on leaving Developer Mode. Developer Mode also makes Netflix stop working. After playing with this for a bit I decided I didn't really need it. I like that it's there... the principle of the device being unlocked is pleasing to me. But in the end the clean, minimal, just-works built-in Chrome OS is essentially what I want from this machine.

Conclusion: At higher prices Chrome OS is an oddball. At $199 Chrome OS is a remarkable new paradigm in computing. It's pleasant to use, and for $199, the various hardware and software flaws aren't bad enough to give me much pause. In fact, for $199, if you're at all tempted, you might as well buy it and see for yourself. A reason to pause would be to consider the $249 Samsung ARM Chromebook, which has significantly better aesthetics and might be a better choice for some people. For me, the Acer C7's better performance for 720p video and Flash gaming, plus the ability to upgrade memory and hard drive, makes it the winner.

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I received my Acer Chromebook and just as others have noted, it's easy start-up and seemed to be just what I wanted to be used mostly for internet purposes and to avoid having to lug my MacBook Pro around with me all of the time. In only a couple of weeks, it has become mostly a dust-catcher. Every time it goes to sleep or I wander awa for 10 minutes it loses the internet connection and it cannot be reconnected unless it is powered down and re-started. Now I know it isn't a hardware problem, because I now find out Chrome has had this problem for a couple of years now, whether Acer or not. I'm pretty angry. It may be inexpensive, but $200 is significant money to me. This is supposed to be a simple-to-use option. After going to the kitchen for a cup of coffee I've often lost the connection. Sigh. Turn it off, turn it back on. So frustrating. I've spent considerable time on the net trying to find a fix (which even if it had worked I should not have to do) and tried everything that I found suggested. No luck. People who are not techies should be able to use this and Google should have addressed it by now. Of course, not everyone has the issue. But do a search on the topic and you'll see it is not uncommon.

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Have had this laptop for over a month. My online classes work great on this and every paper I write is done in Google docs which is awesome. If u have to look at flash based web pages, this one is for u. The Samsung is arm based so it is like a big tablet which means u cant look at adobe flash content. This one works great!

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Not a terrible little laptop by any means. Great deal for the price. I wouldn't cut video or try any intense gaming on it, but it served me well for casual games, web-surfing, and daily computing tasks.

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I purchased this laptop from best buy about four months ago. I cant remember what i paid, somewhere in the neighborhood of $500-600. A pretty good deal. It has the fingerprint reader which is a great little gadget. It alows you to log on with just the swipe of a finger. Plus it also alows you to lock out other users (if anyone else may use your pc) from accesing cirtain files and websites. The problem is, you get used to never having to input a password to log on, so you forget your password. Then after a couple months, the fingerpring reader stops working, or only works half of the time, which is a huge pain. But that is not the worst part, the worst part about this pc is the mouse pad. it requires you to use two fingers to scroll up and down on menus. the mouse pad keys are integrated into the mouse pad (the buttons are not seperate, as on most computers). which makes any click and drag mouse function very tedious and sometimes impossible. The mouse pad and the mouse keys are separated only by a grey line (T). if while scrolling up or down on a web page, your fingers hit the grey line, it will cause the web page to skip around. This makes even playing solitair a difficult task. sometimes the mouse pad will lock-up entirely, causing the cursor to stay in one place, and the only way to remedy this is to shut the computer down manually and lose whatever you were working on, unless you have a mouse you can plug in (either wireless or a usb corded one) I have always been a huge fan of HP products, all of my other computers, printers, keyboads, speakers, and other components have always been HP, and ive never been this dissatisfied with any of their products. If i would have known the problems with this computer, i never would have purchased. On the day i purchased this computer, i never knew what havoc this style of mouse pad would cause. This is my first laptop that i have purchased new. The cooling motor reves up and down like a siren, i dont know if this is normal or not, but it is annoying.

So in closing if you have another mouse to use and don't plan on using the mouse pad at all, this computer does ok. its not a super value, but not bad.

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This laptop really lives up to its description: ultra portability without sacrificing performance. I'm posting this review after a week of ownership.

PROS: Awesome aluminum design, bright display, bluetooth, good webcam, 7200rpm HD, fast processor, runs cool, great WiFi range, good battery life, lightweight (4.41 lbs), fingerprint reader, sturdy, WiDi, HP QuickWeb

CONS: Touchpad gestures, keyboard stiffness, mediocre audio, dvd eject button

* MY PERSONAL NEEDS:

My focus while searching for a new laptop was for portable productivity including office and business applications, software development kits (I'm a programmer), and presentations. I was looking for something with decent processing power to handle multiple applications. What I was not looking for was a gaming machine. The graphics card was therefore somewhat irrelevant. This dm4-1160us by HP stood out because it offered a great processor, Bluetooth, a good webcam, and decent battery life in a light and perfectly manageable package.

* FIRST IMPRESSIONS UPON OPENING:

From the start I knew this was the laptop for me. The aluminum finish, including the design that complements it, is truly a work of art in terms of both aesthetics and practicality. Most modern laptops have a glossy finish that attract fingerprints seemingly even when you're not touching it. This is the complete opposite offering a sleek and professional look without constantly having to wipe it down. During the first few hours of personalization I noticed no hint of heat nor slow down of any kind. It has been quick from the start. Boot up times are average, but perfectly reasonable and even quicker if you take advantage of HP's QuickWeb feature that lets you use some common applications without booting into Windows. The screen is plenty bright and has a very nice and crisp picture. It is better than my Samsung r480 and older Toshiba Satellite, and on par with my older Core 2 Due HP model. If anything the screen on this one is just a bit less reflective than the one on my older HP, which is a good thing.

* PERFORMANCE:

This is my first experience in personally dealing with Intel's new i3/5/7 series processors, and I have to say it exceeded my expectations. In the past couple years the only machines I built were made for gaming, and AMD processors are perfect for affordable gaming machines. While I still believe that AMD is better than Intel cost/value speaking for gaming, I always stick with Intel when building a machine for true intensive multitasking. Even with running multiple applications including some processor heavy development kits, Adobe CS, and other software simultaneously, the laptop runs without a glitch and without producing any noticeable heat nor noise. The Core i5 is definitely a step up from the Core 2 Duo series, and a significant one from the previous dual core T-series that can still be commonly found on the market today.

4GB of memory has become the standard in the laptop market, and there isn't much to say about that other than it works. However what isn't common is a 7200 RPM hard drive in a laptop (especially one with a good battery life). If you don't do much in terms of file transfers you probably won't really benefit nor notice, but it is definitely a plus for me where I'm constantly transferring files for projects back and forth.

The integrated graphics certainly isn't a selling point, but it gets the job done unless you're planning to use it for modern full screen gaming. It will play most games, but you'll have to scale back the settings. If I want to play a graphics intensive game I'm going to do it on a desktop with a larger monitor anyway, so this wasn't a selling point one way or the other. Something I found odd was that the Windows Rating System gave the graphics a higher rating for gaming than it did for Aero (desktop and productivity), but in my experience so far it has managed everything just fine including Adobe, movies, and a couple simple games that I tried out to test the display. I will say that most of the laptops I've owned/used have had integrated graphics, and even so this laptop still feels quite a bit quicker in all aspects. If it were compared to another version of itself with a dedicated card then you would notice a difference, but it is not underpowered by any means.

* TOUCHPAD:

Many people are commenting about how the touchpad is finicky and hard to use, especially when keeping a finger on the mouse button. I don't personally have the same issues and am able to use the touchpad easily. In fact I purposefully attempted to duplicate the problem myself and was unable to see why there's so much trouble over it. And I rather like the textured feel of it and prevents fingerprinting and makes it easy to keep track of. However I really don't like the gestures. Macs do a way better job of handling the two finger slide scrolling and pinch to zoom features. I didn't even think of this option when buying, but since they are there they are tempting and they don't work quite right. The mouse buttons themselves are a bit harder than average to press down but I prefer the tap method anyway.

To comment on some of the other reviews, I don't think it is fair to expect a touchpad to be great while playing games. I've never seen someone successfully play a first person shooter with a touch pad nor would I use it for longer periods of time in CAD or other design software. For simple adjustments in Adobe I find it to work fine, not really better or worse than other laptops.

* KEYBOARD:

Here is where I am having some trouble. The keyboard layout for me is perfect and I like the gap in between the keys. But just as the touchpad buttons are a bit harder than average to press down, I found that the keyboard keys are a bit stronger than average and take a slightly more aggressive press. If you're a heavy typer you probably won't notice. When I get going pretty good my typing speeds are in the 80-90+ WPM range. I am more of a light typer though and have gotten very used to only pressing down as far/hard as necessary and nothing more. Since I am so accustomed to using laptops with keys that are easy to press, this will take me some more time to get used to. I almost wonder if it is just the one I have and it isn't supposed to be that way.

* SOUND:

The sound is not bad. There were more than a few reviewers throughout my search that complained about the sound quality in this laptop. I have used many different laptops and I don't think the sound from this laptop is any worse than the average laptop. Laptops don't produce good sound. That is just how it is, especially when they only weight 4.41 pounds. It does state that there are Altec Lansing speakers on the laptop, but that doesn't mean anything. The only laptops I have used that had decent sound are the bigger ones that have more room for bigger speakers. The speakers on this 14" are still good enough to enjoy a show or have some background music going while you work. For those of you who are still looking around, I would note that HP's higher models with "Beats Audio" aren't anything spectacular either.

* BATTERY LIFE:

Depending on where you look, the battery life on this laptop is rated between 6 and 6.5 hours. With wifi and bluetooth off and just using normal productivity software I think that is a fair assessment, which I think is how they rate it anyways. I haven't had enough time to truly test the battery life in real scenarios, but it seems like I can get a solid 4-6 hours of use while running my presentation software and at least Bluetooth (I use my phone as a remote controller).

* CONCLUSION:

If you are looking for a productivity laptop that is ultra portable and a great value, get this one. There aren't many features missing unless you're after a built in Wi-Max card or want a Blu-Ray player, and it is definitely feature rich for the price range. The finish both inside and out is brilliant and it is pleasing both through its looks and performance.

I would not recommend this laptop if you want a gaming laptop. There are plenty of options from HP and other brands that have dedicated graphics cards with moderate to good battery life. It does not have a dedicated graphics card, wimax, blu-ray, nor numpad, in case you're looking for those features.

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I won't bother telling you how powerful, quiet, and lightweight this machine is. People seem to just want to focus on the touchpad. Maybe early runs of it had problems, but mine works perfectly. The only quirk is that if you have two fingers on the touchpad at the same time, and try to move the mouse, you get this fricking 4-headed arrow that has crazy effects (in chrome, it increases and decreases the font size). Just make sure that one finger stays on the mouse button, and another finger can move the mouse. The problem arises because there is no tactile border between the mouse buttons and the touchpad, so if you are careless, you can end up with two fingers on the touchpad, and.....chaos. It took me about 7 minutes to figure out that if you keep your index finger on the lower half of the mouse button (which you *can* feel) then it's easy to move the mouse with another finger and have no problems. I actually find the touchpad quite responsive.

I love this machine, and think it is a steal for not much more than $700. Maybe it's not for everybody, but don't let rumors of touchpad issues dissuade you.

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(paid $700) Bought this guy about a week ago. It has excellent styling and feels very solid. The keyboard is awesome, but the touchpad can be a bit finnicky. Although it's nothing a few days of getting used to wouldn't fix. I use my laptop for school and Photoshop CS5. It has an awesome battery life which has already given me four and a half hours of youtube/browsing use. The battery life keeps getting better, so I wouldn't be surprised if it gets close to the promised six. It stays very cool, and mostly quiet. Even when the processor kicks into high gear it is barely discernible. It feels very snappy and handles photoshop quite nicely for a laptop. For most of your editing, including assembling HDR and using photomerge it does just fine. To give you an idea, I merged 22 raw files the other day with a fairly complex background, it did it in about a minute. The sore spot is the lack of dedicated graphics. Many game's are still playable, but you'll have to scale back the settings. Civ V runs super smooth on low and is completely playable on medium. SC2 runs great on low. However the snappy performance in other tasks and the great battery life more then make up for the poor graphical performance.

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This sleek, thin, powerful laptop is everything I wanted but never had the time to buy before. I'm a software engineer that works on computers practically every day. Prior to now, I've just assembled my own desktops for home use and used my work laptop for mobile personal computing. IN my hopes to finally transfer all of my personal computing to my own personal machines, I decided to get myself the least bulky, but most powerful laptop I could for as far under $1000 as I could get it.

This laptop is awesome. It's thin, light, and does everything I want it to do. For those who wish to compare their typical personal computing activities to mine, mine consist of:

1) General internet browsing (paying bills, checking email, shopping, Facebook, etc.)

2) Streaming video/music over the internet (Netflix, Hulu, YouTube, iTunes, etc.)

3) Watching DVD movies

4) Playing not-too-complex computer games (nothing needing major graphics power just yet)

5) Creating/editing MS Word or Excel document (journals, budgets, etc.)

6) Downloading digital pictures from cameras & uploading them to the internet (with mild editing in between)

7) Backing up my files to an external USB hard drive (I don't like holding all of my eggs in one basket)

This computer does all of this with ease and is actually attractive to look at. The system also has built-in microphone and camera, which I'd love to use but haven't gotten around to it yet.

HP's site has these exact same systems for their "quick ship" options (systems that are already assembled as supposed to the ones they have to 'build' and then ship to you), but Amazon had this one for less PLUS I was able to take advantage of my Amazon Prime free 2-day shipping! All in all, getting this machine was a great choice and I'm loving every minute of it.

NOTE: The fingerprint swiper can be a bit sensitive, so you may have to 'swipe' your finger numerous times for it to get it. I recommend programming more than just one fingerprint into the system so that you have multiple ones to choose from.

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I was looking for a 14 inch laptop to replace my 5yr old HP DV1000 laptop. I wanted something that is light and with an i5 processor. I came across the dm4-1160us and found that it has all that I was looking for. The listed price on amazon.com was $829.99 at the time. My previous laptop was still working fine and I was not in a hurry to get the new one. So I thought I would wait till thanksgiving to see if I could get a better a better deal on it. A couple of weeks later the laptop was listed on sale @ staples for $700.00 with rebates. I went and got the laptop the same day.

I read a lot of reviews on this laptop and the greatest concern for me was that some people were complaining that it looked pink. So when I went to the store the first thing I checked out was the color and I was disappointed in that it looked pink. But the sales associate told me that it is due to the lighting in the store and the true color of the laptop is a tint of bronze. So I bought the laptop thinking that i would try it out and return it if I didnot like it. I am so glad that I bought the laptop. When I opened the box at home, the laptop did not look anywhere near pink in color. All my friends liked the color and design of the laptop.

I had the laptop for almost a month now and I am very pleased with it. It was the best deal I could have gotten for such a good performing laptop. I would recommend this laptop who wants a good performing light weight laptop.

The only cons that I have with this laptop is with the fingerprint reader and the multitouch functions of the trackpad. You could setup the fingerprint reader to log you into any website. I do not wish to use this setting and have not set it up. So each time I go to a webpage that needs login a pop-up appears asking me if I want to enroll in the automatic log-in. I just find that annoying, I'm pretty sure I can disable it, but haven't got around to it yet. Also, the multi-functioning on the trackpad is not as good as on a macbook. But these are not major concerns to me.........and I think this is the best laptop for the price in the market now.

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It is a well built computer that despite it's age is very good for basic computing and tasks that are required such as using iWork's , office 08. RAM might be need a small boost but leaving that aside it is a very good computer that will serve my child very well for her high school years. Great piece of hardware to introduce someone to Mac OS without having to buy a new one.

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I have the unique blessing of owning one of these extravagant HP Touchsmart TM2T tablet laptops. I bought mine back in May, 2010, and I bought mine brand new via Ebay store. I disagree with this seller's price, however, because my TM2T has almost the exact same specs as his does, and I paid only $800 for mine. Actually the price was $780, but with S&H, it came to the $800. The only thing mine doesn't have that this one has is the ATI dedicated graphics. I did some research on this switchable graphics option on this TM2T tablet laptop, and to be honest, unless a person is a dedicated gamer or does some very serious graphic arts or someting like that, having the ATI switchable graphics will not make much difference. Plus, it drains the battery life. I got the basic Intel integrated HD graphics on my TM2T, and I can play and do the same high end games and the same extreme graphics as one with ATI can do. Instead of burning my cash up on something that I probably wouldn't ever need, I decided to spend an extra $300 shortly after I got my TM2T, and I bought me the full 8 GB brand new memory. Now the memory to me is very useful because I am a Netflix/video buff. With the 8 gigs of memory, my TM2T and Netflix run everso smooth. I have watched the most action-packed and most graphic enhanced movies, and they played without flaw, without lag whatsoever, and were bright, sharp, and clear. I'm not saying to Not get the ATI graphics. I love my TM2T so much that I am planning on getting a second one in a month or so, and I do want it to have the ATI dedicated graphics, just for bragging rights. But I know that that is all I will find use for them for. Anyway, the HP Touchsmart TM2T is just dynamitely awesome; it is built with some very high quality, and the speakers, finally, are elegantly placed right where a laptops's speakers should be placed. And the audio quality is the best I have ever heard on a tablet laptop. The keyboard, webcak, dual mics, Bluetooth, connections, and everything else in my TM2T work absolutely flawless and have amazing performance.

What I don't understand that some of the people that are selling the TM2T, really jack up the price on it, and they don't even have the highest end processor on theirs. There is no way anyone is going to pay $1500 for a near-base model TM2T tablet laptop when they can go right to Ebay or even to HP's site, configure one with everything plus the latest and greatest processor type, ATI graphics, and everything else and pay much less for it; and with special pricing and coupons and student discounts, they would pay even lesser amount for one brand new and with the highes of every spec available. So you people, such as this seller here, that is selling a near-base model TM2T for a jacked-up price, you need to do some research, and then make your prices quite a bit more reasonable. I got everything on my TM2T that is on this one here Except for the ATI graphics, and I even got the 8 gig of memory recently, and I also bought a super slim super fine HP external DVD Burner which works Extremely well and is the clearest DVD player I have ever saw, and even getting all of this, I paid a much less price than what is being charged here. These people charging like this, really need to compare their prices with others, and come way down,a s I have said! Still though, the TM2T is the absolute best deal for a tablet laptop that is going today. HP has a real winner on their hands with it! Thanks for listening!

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Thinkpad T520 15.6" 500GB 4GB Reviews

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The Thinkpad series, especially the T and W series (as opposed to the newer entry-level "Edge" series) are truly solid quality, reality-oriented and practical machines...kind of the ANTITHESIS of Apple Macbooks: they are very simple and plain-looking (but not ugly), built like tanks not pretty little toys (yet surprisingly light given their thickness), and famously reliable.

It has tons of unglamorous but very handy features, such as a REAL keyboard which is pure joy to type on rather than a trendy & toy-like "chiclet" style keyboard, a rough-textured touchpad which is actually a joy to use even for someone like me who normally hates touchpads and prefers external mice, the famous red rubber pointer stick for precise cursor control, etc. The anti-glare matte screen is gorgeous, I think I will never go back to a glossy screen again.

One unexpected bonus: the speakers flank each side of the keyboard sound GREAT! No, they wouldn't come close to the output and stereo separation of external speakers, but for onboard speakers they are more than good enough to supply some low/moderate-volume background music. Of course, the tradeoff is that there is no numeric keypad...which some folks may miss but others may prefer.

Unlike the Apples and most "ultrabooks" or even the cheaper "ultraportable laptops" this baby is ingeniously designed to be very easily taken apart and have individual components upgraded or replaced by the end user like the DVD drive, primary HDD, slot for an optional SM Drive, etc. Instead of having to ship it back to the factory to have such upgrades/repairs done by the manufacturer for an arm and a leg, you can just buy the components for pocket change at an Amazon or Newegg and do it yourself in a heartbeat. Beautiful!

So basically, while having all of the ease of use that any Windows 7 machine today provides, Thinkpads are ideal for those users who like to tinker or are willing to learn how to DIY stuff (and it's very easy, really...that's what Google and YouTube are for). I got mine from Lenovo direct with a sale/discount code found on dealnews dot com for about six hundred fifty dollars including shipping and taxes. Just put in a Samsung 830 Series MZ-7PC128N/AM 128 GB 2.5 Inch SATA III MLC Internal SSD Laptop Kit with Norton Ghost 15(a hundred twenty on sale from newegg) and an extra Corsair 4 GB DDR3 Laptop Memory CMSO4GX3M1A1333C9, did a clean reinstall of Windows7, and this thing is now stupid fast...10 second boot up times, everything is lightning quick. Also got a Lenovo 40Y8725 Thinkpad Serial ATA Hard Drive Bay Adapterso that if I want to have the best of both worlds, I can use the DVD bay for the original 500GB hard drive to bring along massive data and media, on top of the 128gb Samsung SSD for the OS and applications.

If you want a sturdy and practical TOOL rather than a ditsy TOY to show off and impress ditsy people, Thinkpads are the way to go!

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Heads up on the T520 -it does NOT come standard with an eSata port as advertised on the Lenovo website. Lenovo.com shows pictures of the T520 which clearly indicate an eSata port on the left side near the front, which they also describe as a USB/eSata combo port. I just purchased a T520 direct from Lenovo, with the 2.5 Ghz Corei5 2520M with the standard Intel HD3000 graphics, but without the additional discrete graphics upgrade. Instead of a USB/eSata combo port, mine came with a USB only port. At casual glance it doesn't look like a USB only jack but actually looks like an eSata port, until you either try to plug in an eSata cable or look really closely where you'll see little plastic stubs on the inner sides of this larger than normal port which prevent an eSata cable from being plugged in. According to Lenovo tech support the T520 does not come with an eSata port unless you order the model which has the upgraded discrete video hardware. This is apparently noted in the details of the PDF tech spec which is downloadable from their website. In other words, Lenovo is falsely advertising the T520, as the pictures which show the eSata port do not indicate that it is an upgrade option, and then hiding behind the fine print in a separate support doc. Very misleading and very disappointing. Otherwise, it's a decent machine, just completely lacking in a high speed external port for data backups.

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I paid $535 for a refurb, a much needed upgrade from my T61. The I5-2520M @ 2.50 GHz CPU and 8 GB memory make a huge difference as I no longer have to shut down the machine every few hours because I run out of memory. Also, I got Win 7 Pro 64-bit and a 500 GB drive and I needed a firewire port to transfer digital video from the camcorder, but don't have USB 3.

I have 3 USB 2 ports and they are ALL on the left side. That's particularly inconvenient for me since we have two people sharing a table, with the printer and other accessories in the middle and I'm on the left side. The T61 had USB on each side.

I was very surprised to see the LOW resolution on the T520.

My T61 (5 year old model) fit a lot more on the same size LCD and I had ASSUMED that they were all the same or better. This is causing a bit of a problem as I often cannot see the entire drop down menus in certain applications without resizing windows and/or scrolling. So now I'm in the market for an external monitor.

For the money it's definitely a great notebook and I've been very happy with the support at the Lenovo support forum in the past. After 5 years of owning T61s I've never had to ship one in for repairs. The first one had a motherboard failure in 1/09 and I replaced it with a refurb T61.

Over the years I went through several fans, keyboards and a track pad (spilled a glass of tea) for the T61. First I salvaged parts from the old T61, then I had to purchase parts and they were inexpensive and while I'm certainly not a technician, I had no problem switching out parts myself and cleaning the dog hair and dust out of the fan periodically with the help of free how-to videos online.

I live in the high desert without A/C or swamp coolers, my computer is on all day and I use it extensively. Last summer I had overheating problems with the T61 a few times and I started raising it off the table a little and a USB fan helped cool it.

I LOVE the feel of the new keyboard. Don't know if it's actually a different mechanism from the T61 keyboard or whether the old one just got worn out, but this keyboard is fantastic!

I'll be very happy if the T520 holds up as well as the T61.

I like the discounts for the refurbs and bought the 3 yr SquareTrade warranty (cheaper at Amazon than at SquareTrade). Also, I noticed some 1 star T520 reviews at Amazon regarding Lenovo repairs (or NON repairs), so I think the warranty is an good investment as my personal experiences with SquareTrade have been excellent.

Sony VAIO Fit Series SVF14212CXW 14-Inch Core i3 Laptop Reviews

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I bought this laptop before it was released so I wasn't really sure of what it would be, fortunately it is a nice and stylish laptop it has a great perfomance, really fast, so far it works great for my basic homework and university work (matlab, R, C++..etc), any complains about it. It's a pain in the .. to get used to windows 8 but once yo get used to it the whole thing it's pretty easy to enjoy. It was a good purchase in terms of price/specs because I don't needed an ultra fast jet/laptop. It "fits" perfectly for my needs.

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it keeps disconnecting from the internet

and why do u have a touch screen video about a laptop that is not touch screen??? !!!!!

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Bought the Fit 14E while it was on sale for ~$490.

Pros:

-Build quality is excellent.

-Back-lit keyboard

-Great display resolution

-Decent Intel ULV processor

-Acceptable battery life.

Cons:

-Known wireless issues with the Broadcom wireless card. Frequent disconnects, link speed would drop to ~5Mbps. No resolution as of yet.

-Back-lit keyboard can be annoying. The island style keys sit well above the LEDs below, allowing the light to shine directly at you. You can disable the back-light entirely, but you cannot change the brightness.

-Viewing angles on display are not great.

-Intel case badge was crooked : (

I ended up replacing the stock WLAN card with an Intel Centrino 6235. This resolved the wireless issues. Unfortunately, the USB 2.0 ports on the right-hand side stopped working three weeks in. Returned.

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My last laptop was a VAIO that lasted me a long seven years, so this brand was my go-to when it was time to upgrade. I didn't realize it had a i3 (instead of i5) processor until I ordered (because.. apparently I can't read, so) but it hasn't seemed to make THAT much of a difference in functionality. Main pro, for me at least, with this upgrade, is the battery life. With the right settings, this thing goes for HOURS.

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This is the second laptop we have purchased and we love it. Great quality. Works good. I don't think I would switch to another brand.

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Got this laptop as a family carry around.. Not a heavy use machine or a gaming computer, However we all really love this thing. Screen resolution is fantastic, speed is very nice. Windows 8 will take us all a while to get used too though... The computer however stays cool to the touch everywhere! Its very comfortable to keep in your lap as it never gets warm, even after hours of use. Battery life is about average. Only thing Im not quite fond of is the main speaker is downward firing for some odd reason...So if its on a hard surface or on the leg of your couch/chair you cant hear it. So don't purchase this machine for audiophiles...But overall a real nice device for my family.

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actually this is for my grandson, and he likes it and thinks it fills his needs at the present time.

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This item was advertized as New. Well when I received it I could not get it to log on to my wireless system .

I called Compaq , they would NOT help me with out charging me $ for the help , as I it was told it was over 160 days OUT OF WARRANTY , ( so 1 year and 160 plus days !!! *I would not call that new at all ).

So I called ATT my wireless provider , the Advanced Tech ( these guys are smart )tried for 90 minutes to get it to connect to wireless system , finally he told me the thing was a lemon and to return it, so I did . Amazon was very helpful and credited my money back right away , as this was to be a Christmas gift , and I had to run out and buy another one locally . It was the co. Juvalisious who sold it to me thru Amazon, if you buy from this Co. Beware.

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The item is just as decribed, it fit all my schedule and the buyer is awesom. I strongly recommend both the item and the selle..

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Bought the laptop last chritsmas works excellent... Battery holds up great and its very reliable... Never had an issue with it.. The black also looks stylish and and simple.

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I am totally in love with this laptop. The keyboard is awesome, best keyboard I've had on a laptop. Great quality!!!! I just have 2 words to say: Beautiful and fast!!!!!

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Review of Dell Inspiron i15RM-12439SLV 15.6-Inch Touchscreen Laptop (Moon

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When I received my computer, I thought (since I was new to touchscreen and Windows 8) that it was my own inability to adjust. I showed it to an IT friend of mine and he immediately said the touchscreen was bad, which caused all sorts of other issues. I sent it back to Dell. I was originally told it would take one week but now it's been two with no word as to what they are doing. Apparently they haven't worked on it at all. I have received numerous phone calls, all with a thick East Indian accent "apologizing"-but NOTHING happens! Had I realized how bad Dell support would be, I would have returned directly to Amazon.

This was my first Dell. I'll update my review if anything changes. But, I would not recommend.

Edit 10/12/13: After many hours and much difficulty, I received my laptop back from Dell.

I've had it back several days and have to say it's a great laptop. Startup is fast and nimble, the speakers are great and it's just the right size, not too big, not too small. It's nice looking, feels comfortably solid but light.

Windows 8 is surprisingly easy with the touchscreen (now that my laptop works properly). You can indeed do everything with windows 8 as you did with windows 7 and much, much, more. I had read nothing replaces the old startup menu and I disagree. From the new start screen, start typing anything-like "my computer" and the location pops up and you can pin it to your taskbar etc...so easy.

If I have no further repair issues, I'll be a very satisfied customer.

They say Dell has a low failure rate but but if yours is one, they truly do have a terrible tech/repair system....I changed my review from 1 star to 4 stars since Dell did finally come through. And it is an excellent laptop & value.

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I was skeptical of Windows 8 but with the touch screen its has been really great. this laptop has been the easiest setup I have ever experienced. would definitely recommend to anyone!!!!! It does take a bit to find everything but its not nearly as scary as some of the reviews i have read. So far I am lovin this computer!!!

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The power brick is more of a power bar. It's like the size of a nutrigrain bar. Bluetooth. Decent speakers. Great looks. Feels well-built and has a solid weight to it. This isn't an utlra-light ultra-book. Windows 8......everyone hates it, but my impressions are positive. However, this is a touchscreen laptop, so that may be why. I wouldn't recommend having windows 8 without the touch screen. Haven't tested out any games on this yet but even with a standard integrated Intel HD card, you should be able run more than a few games on this considering the 8 gigs of memory. As long as your not a hardcore gamer and have the spare coin to spend on a i7 touchscreen laptop, this is a solid buy. I really don't know where you could go wrong with this. Wellll, maybe the lack of blueray if that's your thing, but then again, the screen is 720p. A few hundred $ more will get you the 1080p.

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I greatly like Dell Inspiron. The configuration of the machine is great and offers excellent performance. The touch works flawlessly too.

I only had few problems in connecting to Wireless. The wireless sometimes drops connection abruptly.

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The laptop came with a dead pixel just in the center of the screen! And when I asked Dell to replace it, they said it is normal, that unless you have 3 or 4 the won't do anything. I asked for a new laptop and they said THEN they could fix it, but the wouldn't guaratee that it wouldn't come with any dead pixels! Chrome runs kind of slow, and the wifi antenna is not very powerful.

Buy HP Pavilion dv6t Quad Edition Laptop - Windows 7 Home Premium

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I bought this laptop directly from HP with slightly different specs. I only got 1gb of ram for the GPU, the steel case, and a 1080p screen. My 750gig hard drive is a 7200rpm. I wonder what the one in this laptop is because they don't feel like specifying... :P

Bloatware wasn't that bad, the speed of this laptop made going through that process reaaally fast. I'm a DJ/Producer and this laptop handles Traktor and Ableton without a hitch. Its just amazing. :D

I work at a computer repair shop and I find it ironic that I bought a dv6 even after I've seen 30+ dv6000s from 3-4 years ago with bad motherboards. :D I just hope that trend doesn't carry over with complete redesigns... :D

This is a relevantly new laptop, so no one can speak on longevity, but with tech progressing like it is, life expectancy should only go up. :) If your looking for a high end PC for a little over a grand, this is a great place to start.

Amazon might decide to edit my comment for me saying this, but consider buy directly from HP, you WILL wait at least 2 weeks for your laptop to arrive, but for me its worth it. :D You get exactly what you want. For me I really wanted the 1080p screen. :P

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This computer has an excellent overall performance. I owned a HP Pavilion DV5 before this one with a Core 2 Duo and there is a big difference between them. The 15,6" display is great too and the aluminium case is well finished (although a little bit cold in winter and finger prints get easily marked on it). Memory size and HD are also significant pros in this laptop. I have only two minor issues: the battery charger is quite large, even bigger than the one my previous HP had, thus it's not very nice for travelling. The second issue is a simple but quite annoying thing: the num lock key has no "on" indicator (very strange considering the caps lock key does).

Above that, the laptop provides an excellent user experience, with a much better boot up speed and delivering a noticeable processing power.

I must point out that this laptop didn't came with Bluray player. There must be some mistake in the description.

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I just got this laptop recently and I love it. Definitely a slick deal if you can ever get it for under 1000 dollars and the same specs. I'll make a list to keep it short and sweet.

Pros:

-Switchable Graphics are awesome. Just use Catalyst Control Center to switch between high powered gaming graphics and battery saving integrated graphics.

-Super powerful! the i7 quad core is fast. Really fast. Especially for me, who upgraded from a single cored desktop.

-Design is great. Everything looks really sleek. Aluminum finish is nice, but can get fingerprinty.

-Keyboard is awesome. I can type really fast on it. Chicklet, comparable to Macbook's. The numpad/tenkey can be annoying for some, but I like being able to type:'

-Fingerprint reader is actually pretty useful. I thought it was just a gimmick, but it works really well.

-Amazing battery life if you can get the 9cell battery. I've gotten around 5-7 hours with light internet browsing. Maybe 3 hours with heavy [sc2] gaming.

-Runs games well.

-2 USB 3.0 slots.

-A lot of other hp goodies, like coolsense and that one harddrive protection thing.

Cons:

-Keyboard is not backlit

-touchpad's multitouch gestures (2 finger scroll and pinch to zoom) are kind of faulty

-Screen resolution could be better, but for the gamers, remember that lower resolution will help games run better.

Would definitely buy for any:

Gamer

College Student

Windows enthusiast

Anyone in need of a powerful windows computer.

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I purchased this configuration (except with 1GB graphics) but this holds for both 1GB and 2GB cards:

AMD/HP have enabled dynamic switchable graphics in this laptop. This means you can on-the-fly choose which applications you would like to be high performance or low performance... but it doesn't guarantee which card the application will run on. The driver does this, taking your suggestion into account. Unfortunately, by design the driver never switches OpenGL graphics to the dedicated graphics card. This means if you use any OpenGL applications regularly you will only use the integrated Intel graphics card, which is better than previous generations but by no means powerful. Classic example: this is a laptop that can't run Minecraft, one of the most basic games. It also won't accelerate any content applications like Photoshop, etc. that have optional OpenGL acceleration.

If you don't use OpenGL ever, this is an amazing laptop. Unfortunately it's advertised as fully supporting OpenGL, which in my mind makes this a product broken by design hence the score.

EDIT: I'd like re-iterate out that this laptop isn't defective, by design OpenGL doesn't work. HP is unable/unwilling to fix the problem and AMD has been completely silent about it.

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I found this same exact computer with 8 gigs of ram directly from hp for 699. Other than ram it has same specs. I love it. Look for a better price

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It is a fast machine, and very user friendly. All I need to update the machine to my specifications. Virtual technology is bringing the heat baby!!!

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I was a little bit nervous purchasing this laptop considering the specs listed on amazon's site are different. The top of the page says the computer has Windows NT operating system and the bottom said Windows 8. I took a chance and ordered the computer and I LOVE it.

Its very fast and picture quality is amazing. I love that it has an HDMI output. My only computer only had VGA. The difference in streaming video on the computer and onto the tv is amazing.

Windows 8 is taking a little while to get used to. I was using Windows 7 previously but I'm starting to get the hang of it.

The laptop is light weight, sleek and the keyboard feels good on your hands. Overall I def recommend this product. I think everyone will love it!

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recieved my computer in only 2 business days. and love it so far. I dont really like windows 8 but the computer is great

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I recommend this laptop.

Used exclusively for work to demonstrate videos and photos to customers... play internet radio. It's fast enough with adequate memory and speed for what I use it for. Arrived on time (Prime is worth getting if you use Amazon a lot pay over $80 in shipping a year).

This is my 2nd HP and the other (HP G6) is still doing fine (8GB RAM)... I upgraded to 8GB RAM through Crucial [dot ]com and it runs over 12 hours a day and has been doing so since Fall of 2011. This model (4GB RAM) is capable of 8GB RAM for even better performance. Note that this comes with Windows 8 and I think runs better than my G6 where I upgraded from Win 7.

Get these 2 modules:

Crucial CT3695417

or Kingston or Corsair... all available from Amazon.com

Open the access area... battery compartment or entire bottom of the laptop, locate where the RAM slot is, remove the existing module by pressing down on the retaining clips, remove the module, get the new module and line up the notch in the row of metal pins at the bottom of your module with the key in the SODIMM slot on your motherboard. (If the notch doesn't line up right away, flip your module around and try it the other way. It doesn't matter which side of your module has the black chips or the stickers on it. The important thing is to line up the notch.)

Hold the module at a 45-degree angle to the slot and slide it into place. No more than 1/16" of the gold contacts should be showing when the module is properly seated in the slot.

MODULE:

FEATURE: DDR3 PC3-10600, DDR3 PC3-12800

SPECS FOR RAM: NON-ECC * DDR3-1333 * 1.35V * 512Meg x 64

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