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I've had this computer for over 2 years now, and have only recently had to replace the power cord. Being a truck driver, my power cords are often mangled easily, but this one lasted much longer than expected. As far as the physical casing goes, there is no major wear on any part of the computer and only a small chip on the case from dropping it off of a three-foot high shelf onto a steel floor a couple times. I've never had a laptop that was able to withstand the abuse of being in a truck nearly as well. It is also capable of complete versatility; I handle all of my financial documents, taxes, trip paperwork, video calls to family back home, and anything I need for my business with it, and am still able to play some of the more advanced computer games (even WoW plays on high-res with no lag). Overall, I would highly recommend this system for anyone interested in a good, stable, versatile computer that can take pretty much anything you throw at it!

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Just got this model for Christmas. There are veriations of this model along with different prices. It's a bit more expensive than most computers that will do similiar functions, with only the exception of having a core i7 processor (quad core). All the other computers that had i7 were way over priced built for gaming, but from that prespective, it's actually one of the cheaper ones if that'll be your primary use or want to have it as an option. On appearance, its black sleek look is very impressive. You'll have to get the customized version from hp.com if that's not your taste. The widescreen looks great that's nice for watching movies. The sound is pretty impressive too...lots better than most laptops, complete with sub and all. Windows 7 is sweet; so far opening programs fast and running it smooth. The side number keys are a plus too. I gave it s 4/5 because for the price I think they could've added more; like a blu-ray drive, 8GB RAM instead of just 6GB, a TV-tuner would also make it a total power house. The spec say it weights 7.7 lbs, but it feels more like 10 lbs. The heat vent felt pretty hot on the ones displayed in the store, but that may be because it had been left on all day. Currently it feels a little warmer than other non-high performing laptops, but not too bad. I'm thinking that may be an issue in the future, that's why you should get an extended warranty on it from hp.com. It's expensive, but well worth the investment...just calculated it into your total cost! Overall it's still a very cool laptop and I would highly recommend it.

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Even though this wasn't one of my most heavily used machines, the battery didn't last long and of course right after the warranty expired, an expensive keyboard replacement was needed. On the positive side, you get a large 17" display, good quality speakers, and while it's an older device, its far from obsolete with a Core i7 processor and 6 GB of memory. If you're in the market for a used PC, you might want to consider this one with the understanding that you'll probably end needing to have it plugged in most of the time.

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This laptop has everything I would ever need. I have had this laptop for two years and haven't found anything I don't like about it. To be honest with vista vs windows 7, vista is the best in my opinion. I know this laptop comes with vista, but a lot of stuff requires vista or older. Great laptop.

Buy PPM41U006005 - CORE 2 DUO T7200, 12in XGA, 1024MB, 100GB, DVD

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in brief..this is a great tablet computer...I owned an xga display model and didn't like the fact that I could 'see' pixels while using some applications..VERY annoying!!

I was fortunate enough to finally find an sxga+=1400x1050 model...AWESOME display!!

Just keep looking, you'll find one ;-) If art is not your forte..then the standard XGA display is just fine!!

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Great laptop, Tablet, do what you want it to do, it's powerful compact, and the touch screen feature is amazing! Best tablet pc ever

Review of 15.6IN 3GB/160/WIN 7 64BIT

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Three weeks after I received this laptop, it suddenly displayed the "blue screen of death" one night while I was surfing the internet. It never would re-start, even in Safe Mode; nor would it boot from the restore disc that I had burned. The only option Acer offered was for me to ship the computer to their repair facility in Texas, at my expense ($30). I did ship it, two and a half weeks ago, and still haven't gotten it back. If this is indicative of the kind of service and reliability a person can expect from Acer, I would recommend not buying one. There's a reason the price is low-you get what you pay for. At least with a company like HP, you can take your computer to a local authorized repair facility if something happens to it, and have it back in a short time. I wish I would have spent a little more money and gotten a better-quality machine.

As for the performance of the computer itself, the speakers are of poor quality (very quiet), so watching DVD's without headphones or external speakers is not enjoyable at all. Also, the DVD player lags/skips at least a few times with every DVD I've viewed; sometimes more often than that.

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I'm not even sure why they call this a laptop because with less than a 1 hour battery life it certainly isn't portable by any means. Also if you have it on standby and not plugged in it will be completely dead by the time you go back to it, even if it was fully charged when you closed the top. The ac adapter pretty much just falls out with any little motion. It also doesn't have enough video card to play small flip videos either and it really struggles with streaming video as well. By the time you get a spare battery, new video card, louder speakers, etc.. you might as well have spent the money up front.

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I bought one of these new in 2009, and am typing on it right now. I love this machine and am currently looking for another one for when this one does start to have problems. The thing with this model is that it was released with 2 major variants. the single core TF-20 1.6ghz and the dual core TK-42 1.6ghz. the single core one is crap stock, but you can buy the best processor for the socket for about $35 bucks now. these things were $450 or so new in 2009. be careful when looking for one. if your battery dies fast it is because it's worn out or it's used and someone screwed up the memory in it.

You can get new batteries and CPUs etc no problem. The motherboards and some of the other parts are starting to run out, and it's getting harder to find an actual new one of these now. If it doesn't come in it's box with clear plastic film covering the whole thing it is not new. If you can get a new one, upgrade the cpu, max out the ram, and throw an ssd in it, you will have a very decent laptop. The biggest bottleneck in this machine is the integrated graphics. the Radeon hd 3200 is not going to let you play new games, but the system is definately powerful enough for anything that is not too graphics intensive.

I like the asthetic appeal and overall design of the laptop. I have a sick gaming desktop and this does everything else. The bottom line though, even if you did get one new in box and spent another $150 bucks to max it out... that's like $600-$700. My newest phone is almost as powerful as this laptop, and $700 will buy something decent even if it's from the low end of a newer upgradable line with a decent parts pool. I'm only here because I have grown attachemd to mine lol. It's going to be sad when it dies, probably miss it more than my first dog. (knocked a star off because it is getting hard to find parts)

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Hardware is great, really small but deilevers a punch. However the mouse pad is exceedingly annoying. I carry my laptop everywhere and don't use a mouse, so this is aggravating. The mouse pad is maybe 1.5 inches by 4 inches and insensitive to touch. Don't expect much noise out of the speakers either.

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I actually won this laptop in raffle, but for what the price is on Amazon, it's well worth it. You can't expect a power house of a computer under $500 even from Acer.

The graphics card is the ATI Radeon HD 3200, and it's an onboard shared memory card. Usually those cards are "pieces of crap" but I was surprised with what I could do with it. But don't think you will be maxing out many games.

The processor is AMD Athlon 64 Processor TF-20 which is a lowly single core 1.66 ghz processor. Yes, that's very little but again I was surprised with what it can do.

Games I've played and have ran smoothly have been

-Guild Wars (Maxed out)

-League of Legends (Minimum Settings)

-Forsaken World (Medium)

-Starcraft 2 (Minimum settings) Note here: Single Player ran like a breeze, no lag at all. Multiplayer was differnt, it lagged some. I had to overclock the processor in order for it to play smoothly (and this isn't a processor that is meant to be overclocked so I don't recommend doing it).

-Dragon Age (Minimum Settings) This surprisingly ran pretty smoothly, some lag when in battles.

-Fallout 3 (Semi Minimum Settings) I only had terrain on medium here and it ran somewhat smoothly, it probably would have ran better if it was on low.

I also ran other programs such as Auto-CAD and Pro/E perfectly fine on this machine.

As for streaming videos this computer is finicky about it. Sometimes I can watch Starcraft 2 games in 720p on Youtube smoothly and sometimes I can't. The wireless works perfectly fine, no complaints here, except at my college where the wireless is horrendous.

TL;DR: This is a good computer for anyone if they don't expect to do anything too strenuous on it, just simple everyday task such as going on facebook or playing simple flash games. Like I said before I was surprised with what I could do with this computer. The website says 160gb HDD but it's really about 140 (but that's pretty much the same with all HDD's). If I'm browsing the web not watching videos with the brightness down I get about 1 hour 30 minutes of battery time. But that's also because I just keep my computer plugged in (about 40-50 minutes of life if playing a simple game such as Dungeon Fighter Online). It can multi task to an extent but this Laptop is severely limited by it's processor.

I don't know why the price is $450 now, I remember looking at this before and it was $400.

Also, I kinda wish this laptop was able to output HDMI, as it doesn't have the HDMI port.

Best HP - ENVY Touch-Screen Ultrabook 14" Laptop - 4GB Memory - 500GB Deals

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List Price: $799.99
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Pros:

-14 inch monitor and solid keyboard means you can actually do real work on this machine, compared to a tablet or netbook;

-Touchscreen make Windows 8 much easier to use;

-Backlit keyboard finally makes it to budget laptops;

-USB 3.0 is mind blowingly fast at transferring files;

-Speakers are loud enough for decent movie watching;

Cons:

-Boring design. Lid is completely black. The rest is a clone of the Macbook Pro;

-Same blocky power adapter from 1997;

-Windows 8 and reversed touchpad scrolling requires a learning curve;

-Heavier than it looks;

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I bought this online on cyber Monday. I got it last Friday. Really cool lap top but not impressed with W8

I am happy with the hardware. Its slim, battery life is over 6 hours, with average use. I am sure if you were playing videos or games, it may not be as much, but I figured you may be able to watch a movie start to end without battery running out. It's light, screen gets really smudgy with finger prints.

so GREAT LAPTOP for the price point that I bought it for.

It has 24 Gig SSD drive for quick boot times, which I don't think is in the spec.

It has a back lit key board. The mouse pad it one piece but and right and left click are built in to the pad, so you don't see separate buttons. The right scroll feature is turned off, so you have to go to the mouse settings under control panel to turn it on. I like the two finger scroll and two finger click to get right click menu.

I have noticed some issues with few apps crashing, and even during the initial set up W8 encountered an error and ran me through the initial set up the second time only to duplicate the user account on the computer.

Screen is really nice and crisp. Webcam is average.

Not a lot of fan noise, but then again there aren't a lot of vents on this either. I did NOT notice it running hot or anything. Also the battery is built in, so you can't just pop it out.

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Fantastic Windows 8 Touch Ultrabook by HP. Cyber-Monday was the perfect opportunity for this purchase. Our family purchased two of these devices. We would have purchased 3 but there was a limit. This laptop has all the performance and requirements you will need to do majority of computing tasks. Love the superfast 15 seconds Windows 8 boot up time...much thanks to the 32G hybrid mSSD cache. Benefit with a hybrid mSSD gives you more capacity with a traditional 500GB HD plus the ability to quickly start up your computer. This is the way to go for performance / capacity at a lower price. The Envy Touch Ultrabook does have some heft to it but not a deal breaker at all since the thin form factor design keeps it looking fresh and sleek. Build quality is well constructed. Backlit keyboard is a nice feature but the keys themselves could use some improvement. However, I did not have any trouble typing lengthy emails. Touch screen response is excellent and does not exhibit any lag or latency. Intel Core i3 performs well for web surfing, email, and multiple app operations. If you can get your hands on one of these HP Envy Ultrabooks I'd highly recommend getting one to start your Windows 8 touch experience.

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this is a wonderful piece of technology. I did my research and Cnet gave this product close to five stars, and it is well worth it. I bought this for personal and school use and I am more than happy with my purchase. I did also purchase the SquareTrade protection for peace of mind.

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I did quite a bit of research and this machine is working great for me. The backlit keyboard is a great feature.

Cheap HP G62-147NR 15.6" notbook featuring an Intel Core i5-430M

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I have purchased the g62 last year. It has a dedicated graphics card ATI 4500. If youre running office and not multitasking you should be ok. Once you try to watch a movie or check your email this laptop will overheat quicker than you can say your name. Once it overheats it will shutsdown and shutdown and shutdown again. The problem is although its packed with cpu and preformance the actual case that laptop is structured in does not have enough space to allow heat to escape. Theres tons of reports from google if you dont take my word on it.

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I have had this computer since 2008 and it works amazingly! The best part was being in college I would type papers and such in bed and would fall asleep. I fell asleep with it in my lap so many times and would roll over and down it would go crashing onto the tile and I was astonished that the worst I ever did was break one of the USB ports because when it fell i had a cord in it but the rest of the computer is in perfect condition. Never had any technical problems or anything. If you are a klutz like myself this is the perfect computer. My first computer as a kid at 13 was a Toshiba laptop and it was one of the old dinosaur versions. It lasted me for 6+ years, and I mean parts were hanging off of it from my clumsy destructive nature, but it still worked! It was pretty impressive. I bought a dell to upgrade, killed it within a year, bought a second dell and the battery kicked the bucket within 2 years, which is when i bought the satellite a205-5000 and its been amazing. It s been 5 years since I bought it and it hasn't let me down yet. I would recommend Toshiba again and again.

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I don't do the whole review thing often... But I came across this as I was looking for an adapter, and I had to write one...

I bought this computer in 2008 and it had an excellent performance even with the factory stock hardware, Its now been 6 years, and approximately 8 accidental drops since I purchased this Model, and I have to say it takes a beating, the battery is still strong. This laptop still runs fast and performing just as perfect as it did the day out of the box, Just remember to clean the heat sink every 2 years and I believe this laptop will last for plenty of years to come.

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I bought this in 2009. We have 2 Toshiba Satellite laptops and a older Gateway laptop. This has been a great laptop, still in use everyday for hours. Never failed me. Easy to use. The newer, more expensive TS laptop we have is a wee bit faster.

ASUS N550JV-DB72T 15.6-Inch Touchscreen Laptop Review

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List Price: $1,099.00
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[UPDATE (8/15/13): If you read the comment thread to this review, you'll find that there has been some confusion around whether this laptop offers a true high definition display. Turns out that this model being sold by Amazon is full high resolution (FHD) 1920x1080.]

Bought this for my son for college and he loves it.

Pros: 4th gen I7 processor; excellent graphics and better-than-expected performance from the NVIDIA graphics card while gaming; a relatively fast boot probably helped along by the 24 gb ssd; 1 tb of storage; 8 gb memory; light weight considering the size of the screen; and a touchscreen display that makes using Windows 8 almost tolerable, and it looks amazing -so good that I would have assumed it was 1080p (but it's not). [CORRECTION: As stated in the update, the display resolution is 1920x1080.]

Cons: It runs a little warm when gaming, so we bought a cooling pad; the bottom of the case could be a little better quality of plastic; would prefer the hdd be 7200 rpm instead of 5400. All of which are very minor issues. My only significant complaint is the keyboard. The chiclet keyboard feels cheap and there's something about the layout that makes it easy, for me, to lose my position and strike the wrong key. My son, the laptop's primary user, doesn't notice it. So it may be a generational thing or just my problem. And the backlighting on the keys is lackluster at best. I would prefer Asus to have installed black keys and some kind of rubber gasket to prevent light from bleeding out of the sides of key. Those two changes alone would have turned the feature from worse than useless to excellent.

If the option were available to me, I would probably have given this laptop 4.5 stars because of the keyboard, and really only because of that. As a writer, it would take me some time to adjust to this keyboard. But my son thinks it's 5 stars all the way, so 5 stars it is. Overall, this is an excellent value that you will find hard to beat. Quality components, I7 Haswell, solid graphics card, touchscreen, beautiful display, nice fit and finish... It's a win!

Note: This has nothing to do with the computer but avoid the Microsoft app store like the plague. It's a mess and many of the apps are buggy. You're much better off downloading and installing software the old-school way. Skype, for example, was a nightmare. I ended up uninstalling the app that came from the MS Store and downloaded the Win7 version of Skype in order to make it work properly. Had to do this with a number of applications.

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So I just went through a form with Amazon to do a full refund after a month with the computer. This is due to the requirements for the computer. I could not justify the price for what it is. For schoolwork, it is just too big. For gaming, it is not good enough for the price. This computer was the envy of my friends and I truly did love it and will be sad to see it go away...

I am going to take my money and invest it into a very cheap and heavily discounted Asus X202 touch laptop or similar laptop for school, use the excess money to get two solid state drives, one for my new laptop and one for my desktop. I will also get new ram for my desktop as well as a next gen graphics card that so far is future proof. The rest of the money will be thrown towards a PS4 or Xbox One and will take a significant chunk out of them making it easier to get them when they release.

This way I get a computer that is more practical for school, and two very powerful game systems that blow this laptop out of the water.

I will truly miss it, it is a great laptop and I recommend it to anybody with a much bigger disposable income. I'm truly sad to see it go.

Oh, also it had battery trouble and would not keep charge after a month of use. Thats just one more reason.

BELOW IS MY OLDER REVIEW:

Ok, so for about the past 3 months I've been researching various laptops at around 1k for my first year of college.

This was the first one to have everything I wanted-

4th gen Haswell Quad Core

Good enough battery life

Touch Screen at 1920x1080

A good enough dedicated graphics card (gt750m)

The reason i give this 3 stars are because of various flaws I found with it.

The first one I ordered got here in a day. It was a amazing computer, well built, good audio, great screen, battery life. The nvida card was giving me trouble and after a session of Crysis 2, the gt750m's driver reported error code 043, which essentially means it died. I sent it back and got a new one same day from amazon and starting dealing with new issues.

My new issues were the 5400rpm hard-drive and the networking card.

The HDD is just too slow for my tastes, I've grown up on 7200rpm emachines and have a OCZ solid state drive in my desktop. it is simply too slow and I plan on replacing it if I can stay within warranty.

The Networking card (Qualcom Artheros Ar9485wb-eg) is also really slow. It takes a full minute to download 1000kb of data. Both the original and the replacement had this issue. i use either wired now or use a usb wifi adapter. Again if I can manage to stay within warranty I will replace it with something better.

Now for the better stuff.

I really like the gt750m nvidia card, it can handle most games at the same graphics of today's 7th gen consoles. The most taxing game I have are Planetside 2, it is playable in big battles on very low settings at full resolution but at any other settings it is iffy. I can manage 40-50 frames at these settings. I played left 4 dead 2 and that was eaten up. The optimus technology automatically switched to the HD 4600 integrated card in the cpu when I played Halo Combat Evolved at Maximum settings in a close quarters unlimited grenades and rockets 16 player match, the integrated card chewed it up. I haven't tried Crysis 2 on the replacement model yet.

Build quality feels like a very fine aluminum, almost like plastic but very solid, I like it.

Screen is the best I have ever had, it is beautiful.

Keyboard, I didn't like the fact it is silver but it is easy to type on and although the backlit bleeds a lot, it does make it easier to see the actual keys and not just the letters.

Mouse pad is the best I have used. Does not mess up your cursor if you accidentally touch it when typing papers like on some notebooks.

Audio is good for a notebook, the additional subwoofer is weak and I forgo it for my cheap gogroove speakers.

Battery life may sound average at 5 hours but it is very generous, when it says 3 hours and 19 minutes it really does mean that much time is left if you keep using how you are. Other notebooks seem to have a less accurate timing.

Not too much bloatware, easily removed within five minutes.

All in all i give it 3 stars because my first model failed and it has a slow HDD and crappy network card.

Pros:

Full HD IPS Touch Screen with great angles

Good keyboard although bland

Great mousepad

gt750m handles modern games well and is capable at low settings select next gen titles

battery life is generous

CPU is powerful when on high performance mode

good audio for a notebook

Cons:

SLLLLOOOOOOOWWWWWW HDD at 5400rpm (upgradable)

Crappy network card that WILL frustrate you (upgradable)

Maybe a little big to bring into classes?

First models gt750m died on me

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I recently decided to replace my four year old desktop system with a laptop.

Given that this was going to be my main computer, I needed a machine that had a good amount of grunt for video conversion and other processor intensive tasks. This machine has the new Haswell i7-4700HQ processor, which has impressive performance with relatively good power consumption.

I am an occasional but enthusiastic gamer, so I needed reasonably good graphics enough to run Civ V, Simcity, Skyrim and whatever is released next at mid settings. Obviously GPU is always a trade off between price, performance and power consumption, but I think the GT750M strikes a reasonable balance between the three. You will have to make your own call, though. If you want more performance, look at the Lenovo IdeaPad Y510p 15.6-Inch Laptop (Metal Dusk Black) which has 2 GT750M's in SLI mode. If you don't do much 3D gaming, an ultrabook or convertible with Intel HD4400 or 4600 integrated graphics (there are quite a few around to choose from) might suit you better.

The screen is beautiful. As screens get better on smartphones and tablets, I find the 768p screens on cheaper laptops hard to look at. Spoiled I guess. The screen is glossy but not as reflective as some I have seen and the viewing angles are excellent.

Not everyone loves touchscreens but it was a must for me. Again, using a lot of touchscreens on other devices I find touch a really natural way of interacting with the user interface, even where it hasn't been specifically designed for touch. Windows 8 is only half the product on a non-touch screen and it seems inevitable that more apps and operating systems will incorporate touch in the future. If you don't want the touchscreen, the ASUS N550JV-DB71-CA Multimedia Notebook (15.6-inch, i7-4700HQ, 8GB-DDR3, 1TB HDD, GT 750M-2G, BD-ROM, Windows 8) is the same laptop without the touchscreen. The trackpad is good too, although I am not a fan of the hidden buttons that everyone has copied from Apple. Initially I found that tapping on the trackpad to click was unresponsive but you can adjust the sensitivity of this. The keyboard is very good in terms of key size and travel, although I would have appreciated a bit of separation between the main keyboard and the number pad so I could easily feel where the enter key was. Frankly I wouldn't have been too fussed if they had left out the number pad altogether.

In terms of size and appearance, this laptop has a very high quality build. I don't care much what my laptop looks like but I do want one that doesn't creak or move while you use it and this certainly fits that bill. The 15.6" form factor is pretty hefty I would've preferred a 14" version but as it was a desktop replacement I was not too worried about the size or weight. If you plan to carry it around a lot, I would recommend you go for something smaller.

While I've said I don't care what my laptop looks like, one thing I do like about this laptop is that it is gaming-capable without looking like a gaming laptop. I find those flashy, neon-lit, tattoo-sporting gaming laptops ridiculous but unfortunately this is almost the most capable gaming laptop I have found without the bling. Even the Lenovo IdeaPad Y510p 15.6-Inch Laptop (Metal Dusk Black) (which looks like the natural next step up from this in the gaming performance terms) has a garish red keyboard which I would feel silly using to do my tax return.

Another important factor in choosing this laptop was warranty. I live in Hong Kong and laptops are generally much cheaper on Amazon than in the stores here, so I wanted a good international warranty. The rules about international warranties vary wildly between manfacturers, but Asus's international warranty is excellent. By contrast Acer (who have a similar model to this laptop) do not offer a true international warranty, so in my circumstances I had to rule them out of consideration entirely.

In terms of shortcomings, this laptop is much better with a decent SSD to replace the supplied HDD. I went for the Samsung Electronics 840 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5-Inch SATA III Single Unit Version Internal Solid State Drive MZ-7TE250BW. Luckily it is pretty easy to replace the HDD armed with a Torx#5 screwdriver. One of the advantages of a slightly bigger laptop like this over an ultrabook is that everything is user accessible and replaceable the RAM, the HDD, the wifi card, the battery, even the optical drive.

A bigger shortcoming is that, unlike several of its competitors, this laptop does not have provision for an mSATA SSD. This means you cannot install a 64GB or 128GB SSD as an OS drive and keep the HDD for data. You have to use one drive, and that means being faced with a choice between a smallish but fast SSD and a big but slow HDD. In my case, I have a NAS for storing data, so it was less of an issue for me. Also USB 3.0 (all the USB ports on this laptop are USB 3.0) makes external drives very fast.

I really didn't identify any other issues with this machine. All in all I am one happy owner.

In my dreams I would quite like this CPU/GPU combination in a convertible form factor a touchscreen is more useful again if you can fold it flat and use it like a tablet. But at the moment, none of the convertibles have a dedicated GPU or even Intel HD5100 graphics (which approaches the GT750M for performance). Maybe next year for that.

PS: I noticed that some of the specs for this machine on Amazon and a lot of other online retailers were wrong. Amazon seems to have corrected them now, but to make clear:

* No model of this laptop has an mSATA drive or any place to put one.

* This model has a 1080p IPS touchscreen. The DB71 model has a 1080p IPS non-touchscreen.

* This model has a DVD-RW drive. Some Asian and European models have a Bluray/DVD combo drive or a Bluray-RW drive.

* This has 8GB of RAM, two 4GB modules. Some Asian models come with 16GB RAM.

* This model has a 1 year international warranty and 1 year accidental damage protection (in the US & Canada only). In other countries, Asus offers a 2 year international warranty but no accidental damage protection.

* The keyboard is backlit with 3 levels of light.

One final thing: if you are shipping this (or any) laptop to or through Hong Kong, you will need to get hold of the Material Safety Data Sheet for the laptop battery. For this laptop, the battery part no is C41-N550 and the MSDS is available by telephoning Asus Hong Kong. Do not try Asus USA, they will not know what you are talking about!

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First off, I bought this laptop from another vendor, and cannot comment on Amazon's shipping or service. However, after owning this product for about a month, I can comment on the laptop.

Pros:

-Top-of-the-line 4th gen Core i7 processor

-Brand new, dedicated video card

-absolutely massive hard drive

-keyboard w/ backlight

-Full HD touchscreen display with IPS technology (very wide viewing angles)

-excellent build quality

Cons:

-hard drive is only 5400 RPM

-keyboard backlight is not perfect

-gets a little warm with heavy use

-it doesn't make me pancakes

Conclusion:

This really is an excellent laptop, especially for the price. For a little more than $1000, it offers you a slew of high-end components inside a well-built, attractive casing. For some more money, you could get a laptop with a higher resolution screen (Macbook Pro Retina) or with slightly better components (Razer Blade) but there's really no reason to unless you're a hardcore gamer or have a need for ultra-high resolution displays. The touchscreen makes Windows 8 infinitely more enjoyable, and makes me wonder why people ever complained about it. The hard drive, while massive, is a bit slow, and seems to occasionally bottleneck the system during some intensive tasks. However, during most use cases, this is a non-issue, and is easily rectified( Just buy yourself a faster hard drive). It does get a little warm when under heavy use, and may require a lap desk or a cooling pad to remain comfortable at times, but again, the problem is easily fixed. The keyboard backlight is a nice touch, with one minor issue. At certain angles, light leaks out from underneath the keys, making them hard to see. But, when one is sitting normally, this isn't an issue. The keyboard itself is wonderful, and I'm not sure why people have complained about it. I suppose it's a preference thing.

Overall it's an amazing laptop for the price, offering an excellent mix between build quality, aesthetics, and power.

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Pros:

Very fast processor

Decently portable at ~ 6 lbs.

Great Build quality

Great Sound quality

Typing on the keyboard is perfect for me

Illuminated Keyboard is great at night while I'm coding or browsing the internet.

Decent graphics card (GTX 750m) for some light gaming As I have gotten older (26), I see myself gaming less on a laptop.

The Intel 4600 HD graphics work great for everything else when you aren't gaming, Nvidia Optimus seamlessly switches between the two gfx cards

Touch Screen works really well, it's great for those lazy nights when I have the laptop on my chest in bed.

1920 x 1080 Screen looks beautiful

Cons:

SLOW hard drive, Do yourself a favor and replace it with a Solid State Drive immediately, I went ahead and got the Samsung 840 EVO (250gb).

You will thank me later.

Can potentially get a little warm depending on use (I've noticed that if I keep the screen brightness down and setting it on powersaver mode it doesn't get very hot). A minor issue if you are like me and put it on your lap and chest while laying.

Wish the wireless card was dual band and supported 5ghz, but this can be fixed buy purchasing a ~$30 dual band internal wireless card

They skimped out on the webcam a little but this is fixable and not a huge issue.

Potential Issues:

*** TOUCH PAD *** I had to send my first one back because the right corner of my touch pad was incredibly hard to press for right-clicking, I went to microcenter to double check if their display model had this issue and it did not so I knew I needed to return mine.

The second model I received fixed this issue, but as other reviewers have noted the touch pad can lift slightly above the bezel in the top right corner. Perhaps ASUS will address this in the near future.

Windows 8 I think windows 8 is growing on me, start up is super fast, the search is powerful but I am not too fond of the way apps run without a close button. To get around this, apps like chrome need to be re-run in desktop mode.

But I'm currently trying Windows 8.1 Preview and I like it even more, It fixes many of my previous gripes and allows you to go back to desktop mode by default with the familiar windows 7 interface. The search is made even more powerful.

All in all, this is an awesome laptop. Design is beautiful, functionality is nearly flawless, and it is quite feature rich. Pretty much all of the cons can be fixed. At roughly ~$1000 it was a steal for me! Keep it up ASUS!

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i have had this laptop for sometime now and after messing around with it for a couple of days i fell in love i had an hp pavilion and that had alot of things that didnt work, so fr everything is working smoothly, the touch pad is pretty big and has some basic multi touch features and works pretty good even though im not the biggiest fan of them, the keypad is amazing! very comfortable and theres a set aside number pad!! 15.6 is big enough for me to edit videos on and the quad processor keeps it running i did upgrade it to 8gb of ram which u dont really need to do unless u plan on using A LOT of programs at once i left with the original 3gb for awhile it ran fast enough until i put final cut and premiere pro on here.over all its great deal i got mine under 400 at another store but i would still pay 500 for this laptop know what i know.

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This laptop has been great for me so far. Picture and sound quality are good and has a pretty fast processor. I have downloaded most of the Adobe cs6 suite and the programs run smoothly. The only thing, the webcam on the computer was flipped when trying to use skype. I tried looking up how to fix it online but I wasn't able to. Overall great computer for a fantastic price.

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I bought this unit for a friend of mine as a gift. I have heard that Asus brand is good and is built to last. This unit (Asus K52T-BBR5) failed right out of the box. I could not make it to stay on and log in. It would shut down and reboot itself, unless I switch to safe mode.

I contacted Amazon to return the item. Amazon referred me directly to the seller. The seller was take4less. I did not have a good experience communicating with the seller. Initially he agreed to take it back for a full refund plus the cost of return shipping. He never sent me the return label as he promised. It would take several days before he would respond by email. After he got the unit back, he claimed that the unit is working fine!

Not what I expected to experience on Amazon. As of today 5/7/12, I have not received my refund yet. My overall experience has been very poor. I will not purchase any electronic products from Amazon.

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I have purchased of few of these for our more mobile employees and they have worked great so far. The laptop seems to be quality construction and has held up well so far to the rigors of cross country travel. Its fast, light, sleek, and the battery life is good.

My complaints are the lack of a back-lit keyboard (not huge) and the lack of an SSD. I have found traditional hard drives to be more reliable, so this is minor.

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If you're looking for a inexpensive laptop of this size then this is a perfect choice.

Initial Impressions:

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I've only had the laptop for a few days, but am quite happy with it. The number pad is great, island keys look nice and feel good. The track pad has a ton of settings and options so with a little fiddling you should be able to find the settings that work for you. The display is definitely widescreen but looks great. There wasn't too much bloatware installed mainly just a bunch of HP programs, but they were easily disabled/removed. Comes with McAffe 60 day trial which I uninstalled. Also comes with Office 2010 starter which provides Word & Excel limited versions. I love that this has a 7200 RPM harddrive as most laptops skimp with slower 5400 RPM options. Webcam works great and has a built-in light/flash. HP & Windows 7 even have face recognition for logging in, although that doesn't always work. The top has a matte finish with what I can best describe as a fine wood grain look that's somewhat grey/brown.

Update: one of the main reasons I bought this laptop was for the HDMI output so I could connect to my receiver and HD TV then play videos, Hulu, etc. from the laptop to the TV. After a little tweaking of the audio playback device both audio and video worked great over HDMI! I should note that the audio signal is not surround, but 'just' digital stereo.

Regarding Memory:

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I ordered another 2GB of RAM and after removing 7 screws I got to the memory location under the keyboard and the additional memory looked to be exactly the same as what I ordered. You can google to find the instructions for removing the keyboard on HP's website. However, I don't know that 4GB is absolutely necessary for this laptop. It depends on how many programs you'll have open at a time and how you plan to use it. Many people probably don't know that 4GB is the maximum amount that a 32 bit Operating System can reference.

Overall:

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Circuit City (owned by the same company as Tiger Direct) via Amazon had the best price for this laptop (400), even better than Newegg (420). I was surprised that shipping took only 3 days!

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My reference point is from the use of Thinkpads for 10 years (t-20, t-40, t-60) and the Dell Latitude series for another 3 (both brands are premium business laptops).

This is my take on this deal: This is a fantastic buy for $399! And stand-alone, not a bad computer!

The outstanding:

Great built in camera (2Mp most others have 1.3 or just 0.3)

Faster HDD than most other laptops (7200 rpm, most others have 5500)

Fantastic connectivity for this price class; HDMI, eSATA

Durable design using polished metal

The good:

Quite good speakers for this price

Processor is reasonably fast, graphic processing also

Keyboard is water proof, HDD has shock absorber function

The bad:

The touchpad buttons are part of the touchpad, making them difficult to use as the cursor will typically move when you click. I use an external mouse, so it is not really a problem.

I find myself mistyping more often when using the keyboard than on my Lenovo Thinkpad or Dell Latitude and my fingers are not particularly fat

The ugly:

Adding more ram was NOT a cakewalk dissembling the keyboard and top panel was easy putting it back together again was a nightmare, eventually had me using a kitchen knife to modify the plastic panels (if you do this be very gentle not to bend anything, so you don't have to bend it back like I had to...).

Would I buy it again? Definitely! I love this thing!

-----Additional observations added on August 1st, 2011 ------

The wireless antenna is awesome. In locations where my two-year-old Thinkpad achieves just one or two bars from the wireless network (or sometimes none), the HP achieves four.

The web-cam works extremely well in dim light, better than that of my Thinkpad and on par with that of my Latitude 4300.

I've had no issues whatsoever concerning stability after nearly 3 months of usage. No hang-ups, crashes or freezes! I think this is the most stable computer I've ever owned.

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This is a surprisingly good laptop for the money! Although I purchase nearly everything from Amazon, I caught a 24 hour special on another site that I just couldn't pass up.

After returning two other laptops from another company that did not meet my graphics expectations, I was a little concerned about this one you usually see these kinds of specs in much higher priced machines. Although the Microsoft Windows Experience Index is not a techie's dream, it does give a standard measurement that indicates how well the computer performs using Windows 7 (scale of 1 to 7.9).

After the first start-up, I ran the Index with the installed 2GB memory. Then I installed 4gigs and updated the Graphics and bios. Here's how the numbers came out:

Processor: 5.2, 5.3

Memory (RAM): 5.5, 5.5

Graphics: 3.3, 4.1

Gaming Graphics: 5.1, 5.2

Primary Hard Disk: 5.9, 5.9

These are very decent numbers.

x32 and x64 OPERATING SYSTEMS: I wanted x64. I called HP Customer Service and ordered the x64 at no cost. Within less than two days I received the disks via FedEx Express (good, responsive, customer service). Not one disk, but three Windows 7 disks arrived (x32, x64, and a recovery disk).

GRAPHICS: Although this is a business-field computer, I need good graphics nevertheless. If I lift this laptop up and put it next to my 24" desktop monitor (with an ATI Sapphire Vapor-X Radeon HD5770 video card that gives me an Index of 7.4), I can hardly tell the difference except the colors appear richer on the HP laptop!

KEYBOARD: Excellent. Generous sized keys. Nice border between the main keys and the ten-key area. Keys have a nice touch.

TRACK PAD: I find no fault with it.

ENCLOSEURE: A stylish black case and keyboard that looks very business professional. The finish shows finger prints easily, but I find that a Meguiar's Supreme Shine microfiber towel remove finger prints without a trace. I also use it on my black keyboard and tower.

PROBLEMS: Installing the memory modules was a bit of a chore, but I knew about it before I ever purchased this machine. Be aware that the screw threads are not small they're tiny. And the two rubber caps at the back are nothing more than two thin rubber caps with sticky on the backs. An Exacto blade makes them easy to remove.

I'm delighted with this laptop.

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In preface, I'm a network engineer and used to toting about a $2500 Thinkpad issued from corporate. Build quality is important to me.

This model comes 'stripped down' with only 2gb of RAM, and a 'measly' 320gb HDD.

Another 2Gb is cheaper than dirt right now. 320GB units are SINGLE PLATTER right now, and very reliable in the mobile context for that reason.

Sacrificing these super cheap to upgrade things gets this unit down in to remarkable pricing territory. ( $ 4 5 0 )

The 2.2ghz processor has more moxie than those comparing it to the sister model 4520s (i-380 based) give credit for. Lets keep in mind not too long ago we had similar performance in Desktops... The advantage of the (still basic) Radeon 4250 shows in those silly games your kid will download. You know it will happen and choosing the Intel HD makes children cry. Also, I have seen no issues with my test 1080p content over HDMI (70-90% CPU). That said, the screen is x768 so 720p content is the max anyway and it plays fine.

The keyboard is good, having not much flex excepting the very center. Typing to the left is difficult for those not used to numpads on these units but humans adapt. Key travel is crisp and not 'cheap' feeling to me. In addition, the touchpad is centered on the spacebar (as it should be); but will take getting used to as it's not in the center either. This implies your instinctual left click might be a right for a couple days.

Speaking of the touchpad, people give this some guff in reviews. Go LOOK at the options panel. I set palm check to one notch from the top and haven't had a thumb/palm accidental drag once. Honestly, I think this is a good touchpad after setting sensitivity.

This is one of only a couple laptops in this price category that had both HDMI and eSATA. Bonus. No USB on the back; however two on each side is good (one doubled with eSATA). They are inset slightly, so the micro-usb most wireless mice come with now do not protrude at all.

Sound is 'ok' but at least it gets loud when you push it. I can hear the talking in youtube videos fine on 50%, but get an external speaker for $20 if you want to bump it up a notch. It seems optimized for the human speech range, which I'm pretty ok with.

Build quality is solid. No, really. Completely lacking in misshapen panels, snap-attached bezels, and the like. I took it apart and don't find any 'fail' moments in the process. This is very surprising at this price point. The consumer version of this HP cpu/featureset is rife with build quality issues so this is important to note. My wife's friends think we bought a very expensive unit (the only test that matters).

Do yourself a favor and buy this model if you're in that sub $500 crunch and don't want to pick up that plastic toshiba thing everybody says has wonky fans.

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Bought this laptop as a Christmas gift and was pleased with the performance and features at the $399.00 I paid.

I was a little surprised by the size of the laptop. I guess I wasn't paying attention but the 15.6 inch diagonal results in a very large laptop.

I personally prefer a smaller machine (I own a 10" netbook" but the person who received it loves the laptop and thinks the size is a plus. You have plenty of real-estate on the screen for viewing content. The laptop ended up with an overall Windows Experience rating of 3.2 but that was only for the Aero graphics. Otherwise it would have been 5.2. Gaming graphics scored well. The machine has plenty of power and feels quite speedy.

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This thing is a beast! It will play all the latest games and do daily task without breaking a sweat! If you are looking at getting the Y510p make sure you get this model, it has everything you need.

Pros:

Fast!

I7 processor

Sleek metal design

Matte 1080p screen

Decent webcam

Backlit keyboard with 2 different levels.

Stylish

Cons:

Runs a bit hot

Touchpad is a disaster

Fingerprint magnet(impossible to remove them too)

The ultrabay GPU's are still not on the market.

Slow 5400 rpm hdd(really is the only cause for slowdown on this laptop)

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I purchased a Think Pad Edge 425 in January 2012 directly off of Lenovo's website. It is the same laptop as the E535 except that it has the 14" screen. In that time that I have had it, I have suffered two hard drive failures which were covered under warranty. I had to take it to a local computer shop both times to have the data recovered and transfered to the new drive. I was sent instructions on transfering the first time; but I did not feel that I had the expertise to do so, thus I took the computer to a local repair shop at my own expense.

This week end I experienced another failure. I used the computer Friday evening to listen to and watch music videos on You Tube. It worked perfectly and the shut down was normal. I went to boot up Saturday morning and the computer was completely dead. Nothing won't start just dead. The machine is now out of warranty so I'm stuck. I'll take it to the shop again to see if they can get it running again. If they are successful I will buy a new Windows 7 machine from HP after I transfer my files. HP is still selling new Windows 7 machines I refuse to convert to Windows 8. 8 is another sad tale.

I am very disappointed because the computer was perfect for my needs when it worked. The key board was excellant. The sound was good. The screen was good. The size of the computer was perfect and the A-4 4300M processor performed well on all tasks that I tried to do on the machime. It was the ideal machine when it worked which sadly was not to often.

Up Date 4/16/2013

Took the laptop in to my repairman on 4/15/2013. Was advised that the mother board was bad. The cost to repair is more than I paid for the laptop. This computer is 13 months old and is shot. Wasted over $500 on this machine and have no recourse. Buyer beware.

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I have owned this exact model and it has performed flawlessly for over 6 months. I appreciate the ability to add or subtract Tiles which you can use to call up web sites or programs. I love Windows 7 but Lenovo has improved it by adding soft ware which provides a large selection "tiles" which give it the appearance and some of the function of Windows 8.

I find nothing to slam about this laptop, especially when saying it is the same as a different model of a different size. I have not had any issue with the HDD. It has performed perfectly for me as has the entire laptop.

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I purchased a Mini 9, black obsidian color, with 1.6 Ghz Atom processor, 16 GB solid state drive, 1 GB memory, external portable CD/DVD-RW, integrated webcam, GMA 950, wireless 802.11g, and Windows XP. This netbook boots up Windows XP very swiftly, plays NetFlix movies via wireless/DSL without a single screen blip or stutter, sound is quite good (headphones best when watching a movie or listing to music, very good stereo sound, and the built in speakers are adequate for regular browsing). DVDs and other media play excellently as well. My Firefox browser can be viewed full screen, and screen quality is good and easy on the eyes (very crisp and clear, good color). With a 4 GB Sandisk card I have 20 GB of disk space in total, which is more than enough for portability on vacation, to school, to the beach, the airport or on a plane, wherever I just need connection but don't need all the major attributes of a desktop system or bulky heavy 15 inch laptop. The battery lasts me 3 hours with my screen brightness down to mid level before my battery-low alarm sounds, and the battery charges very swiftly. The power cord is very lightweight and not bulky. I'm glad I made this purchase.

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The one bad thing worth noting is the screen. The screen is really, really dim. The badness of the dim screen is magnified by how reflective it is. You won't be able to use it outside or near a large window. No problem at night or in a dimly lit room though.

The S400 feels very high quality. It's coating, weight, edges, the way it closes, and its keyboard all feel great. So good, I prefer the feel to my MacBook Pro.

It performs a bit sluggishly, but that is to be expected from an i3 processor and a price of just 499$. (Sluggish relative to my 4 other computers which, are all >1000$ development machines).

It works very well for video chatsthe microphones are positioned away from the speakers and are directed at the user.

At 499$ with a brighter screen this would be 5 stars.

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