HP Pavilion DV7-2270US 17.3-Inch Espresso Laptop – Up to 4.5 Hours of Battery Life (Windows 7 Home Premium)
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HP Pavilion DV7-2270US has been a best-selling laptop on Amazon for some time now for a reason. It is equipped with 2.0GHz Intel Core2 Quad Q9000 Processor, 500GB HDD, 4 GB DDR3 RAM, Windows 7 OS. but this only scratches a surface. Let's find out together why people are going crazy for this laptop computer.
For those who want an all-in-one performance notebook with rich multimedia features, the HP Pavilion dv7 Entertainment series delivers desktop-replacement performance that looks as great as it runs. Powered by the latest processor and graphics technologies, it delivers optimal mobile performance to support your lifestyle. Enjoy full-screen viewing of HD TV and movies with the large 16:9 17.3-Inch diagonal display. HP Triple Bass Reflex Subwoofer amplifiers put out 12W total while supporting a full range of treble and bass frequencies. Chat face to face with the HP Webcam and add fun special effects. Enter data quickly with the separate numeric keypad. Create personalized, silkscreen-quality DVD and CD labels with LightScribe.
For those who want an all-in-one performance notebook with rich multimedia features, the HP Pavilion dv7 Entertainment series delivers desktop-replacement performance that looks as great as it runs. Powered by the latest processor and graphics technologies, it delivers optimal mobile performance to support your lifestyle. Enjoy full-screen viewing of HD TV and movies with the large 16:9 17.3-Inch diagonal display. HP Triple Bass Reflex Subwoofer amplifiers put out 12W total while supporting a full range of treble and bass frequencies. Chat face to face with the HP Webcam and add fun special effects. Enter data quickly with the separate numeric keypad. Create personalized, silkscreen-quality DVD and CD labels with LightScribe.
- 2.0GHz Intel Core2 Quad Q9000 Processor (6MB L2 Cache, 1066MHz FSB)
- 4 GB DDR3 RAM (2 Dimm), Max supported 8 GB
- 500GB (7200RPM) SATA Hard Drive, LightScribe SuperMulti 8X DVD±R/RW with Double Layer Support
- 17.3" Diagonal HD+ High-Definition HP LED BrightViewWidescreen Display (1600 x 900)
- Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit, *Up to 4.5 Hours of Battery Life
- ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4650 (M96) with up to 2.8 GB total available graphics memory with 1 GB dedicated
 This laptop is a DREAM! |
| Review Date: November 13, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Almost Sixty!, United States |
| I was looking for a laptop that would have the graphics features and speed of a desktop PC, and this is it! It handles my Adobe CS4 products and web design software beautifully. I bought the three-year warranty...expensive but I was told I'd be disappointed in support the first year otherwise. I plan to have this product a long time. It is sleek and beautiful. Finding a carrying case was a challenge, but the Toshiba 18.4" does the job. After much research and reading many reviews, I can see why there are very few complaints against this HP Pavilion! |
| Strong Laptop |
| Review Date: January 12, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Robert Jordan, Midwest USA |
| I have experience as an I.T. dept. supervisor (over 200 PC's and laptops on site), and bought this laptop for personal use @ home, wanted a quad core laptop because I am also a private pilot and like to use MS Flight Simulator X, which after the most recent update will utilize all available CPU threads (i.e. all four cores on a quad machine). I spent some time researching which laptop videocards had decent 3D performance and found that the ATI HD4650 was roughly equivalent in most 3D benchmarks to between a nVidia 240M and a 250M, but 250M's and above I could only find on higher end dual core machines and some high end Core i7 quad machines both of which I could not find models that fit my budget for the purchase, which was to spend no more than $1050. I first saw this HP DV7-2270us laptop on one of Amazon's competitor's sites, and it had numerous good reviews. The Core i7 machines being beyond what I wanted to spend, I knew a Core 2 Quad Q9000 based laptop would need to be it, and when I found this model and then researched the performance of the ATI HD4650 video card I knew this was the one. Just had to find the best deal on it and that was where Amazon came through as the clear the winner. At time of this review I see the price has increased on it, but I paid $[...] a week and a half ago, making it $[...] after the $[...] mail in rebate kicks in. A win for staying on budget, too.
This laptop benchmarks strong using Passmark Performance Test 7.0. I ran the trial version of Passmark on it and the scores were as follows: Rating (overall): 1084.65 CPU score: 3271 2D video score: 223 3D video score: 508 RAM memory score: 874 Disk score: 680 CD/DVD RW score: 0 As you can see, I ganked the CD/DVDRW score-- I didn't have any CD media in the drive when the test suite was ran. I did re-run the suite with a CD in and the CD Score was 208, which brought the Rating up from 1084.65 to 1117. But you can only upload your scores once to Passmark's online database and I had already uploaded the first time, so the scores listed above for my DV7-2270us are the ones in their database, date/time stamped as 08/January/2010 3:26pm. Most of the Core i7 machines (720q) in their database were scoring around 3600 for the CPU score, so the Q9000 quad is not too far behind in this benchmark. Passmark is a multi threaded benchmark so it uses all available cores. A couple things to address what i have read as common 'cons' against this laptop in assorted buyer reviews: Screen not brought enough even on highest setting: can be made much brighter by going into Advanced Power Settings. Once there you will see that by default screen brightness is set to 50% while on battery BUT ALSO while on AC power. So it can be set higher here. You have to poke around in Battery and Power settings section of Control Panel until you find the screen with Advanced Power Settings in small blue underlined font near bottom of the page as a hyperlink and click on that to access a bunch of hidden settings for how the laptop behaves on either battery or AC power. Speaker sound is flat and tin-like: In the task bar tray there is an icon for the IDT Audio Settings. Once opened, under the tab for Speakers and Dual Headphones there is a group of settings for SRS Premium. One of the settings is for SRS Trubass Speaker Size. It is set to Large by default. Setting it to Small significantly richened or deepened the sound sound fidelty on my DV7-2270us. I know that seems like the inverse of what should happen, but it certainly did significantly improve sound quality out of the laptop speakers by selecting Small as the speaker size for that setting. I listened to several MP3 files after adjusting the SRS sound in this applet and they sounded pretty good for laptop speakers. But for full fidelity obviously a good external speaker set would be needed since these are after all tiny laptop speakers, I'm just detailing how I made a noticeable improvement to the out-of-the-box default sound quality this laptop is set to when it ships. All in all, I am very happy with this purchase. This is a strong laptop and highly recommended. It has been working perfectly so far. Very fast, fan runs all the time (necessary to cool the quad core Q9000 CPU) but its pretty quiet and I don't find it bothersome at all. |
| What a sleek and fast laptop... and for this price! |
| Review Date: January 19, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Pierre Huguet, San Diego, CA United States |
| This is a beautiful laptop. Very fast and the screen is resolution and contrast is goregeous. I use it for software development and presentations. It is well above my performance expectations as far as speed.
The video card is very fast, and supports dual screens very nicely. For estetics purpose I suggest you get a Wireless mobile mouse 6000 which looks very well assorted with the laptop and has a tiny receiver you can leave in the laptop at all times. Processor and memory ops rate a 7, Graphics 6.6 and disks 5.9 (over a max of 7.9). a very good score. The keyboard is big and offers a numeric pad too. Overall I am very pleased with this laptop. One thing I regret is that there is no free slots to upgrade it to 8gb of ram. You'll have to throw the memory and buy 2x4gb dimms if you want to do this.... too bad. |
| Great "home" computer |
| Review Date: January 27, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Gulsah Metinoz, Miami, FL |
| I've been very satisfied with the HP Pavilion 17.3". Ok, it's not a very mobile laptop, but that's not what to expect with a 17", it's a home computer that you can use at the desk, on the coach, at the dinning table,... The pre-loaded HP software, including the HP "docking station" is fine to use, of course you don't need it. The graphics and CPU performance are great. In the end, this was the best price for high-end performance, without going into super high-end gaming setups. As a plus, the external case (with in-mold decoration from Nissha) is super cool. |
| Incredible computer, wow performance. |
| Review Date: January 31, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Gerardo Ramirez Duran, |
| This is the best computer I ever have bought.
Is a full desktop replacement. The keyboard is really comfortable. I use it with all kind of applications, even with intensive graphic applications and the performance is outstanding. I fully recommend this product to everybody who be interested in a powerful machine. |
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