This is a great product for a pretty good price, 3rd generation core I5 with speedboost is extremely fast, 8 gigs of ddr3 plenty of memory hardware specs are top the screen is beautiful, the hard drive leaves alot to be desired, you have this powerhouse of a laptop and then a 5400 rpm drive!??!, needless to say i threw a samsung SSD 840 in there and my boot time is so fast it almost goes back in time.
Pros:
Top of the line hardware
Speedtests/stress tests all successful and good ratings
Intel Graphics 4000 HUGE improvement over the 2/3/3.5 graphics on the previous line of chips, i can even play battlefield3 with little to no lag although not on the highest settings
Ram is quality ram although its not max speed the board can handle.
Screen is extremely vivid esp with the led backlite
Audio is LOUD but quality due to the beats framework
Cons:
5400 rpm drive is a disgrace to this powerhouse, I personally recommend a Samsung MZ-7TD250BW 840 Series Solid State Drive (SSD) 250 GB Sata 2.5-Inch
a bit on the heavy side and it gets very warm on your lap but thats to be expected
power settings in OS before i replaced and reformatted where defaulted to HP economy settings, set to high performance
not really a con but an observation that battery life on high performance was about 5 hours
Overall its a great laptop, but i would spend an extra few bucks on a SSD for itsuper fast laptop love the simple pass reader now don't have to remember all passwords. Plus the beats audio just make it even better I do recommend this pc with the i5
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