This review is from: HP g7-1310us (17.3-Inch Screen) Laptop (Personal Computers)
OK, so to add some perspective to this I will say that I upgraded from a 4 year old underpowered Dell laptop with barely a gig of RAM so any upgrade would be a good one for me. That being said, I am still very impressed with my initial experience with this product. I got it for what I consider to be a very reasonable price – under $550 and less than it would have cost direct from HP, even with their promotions and dicounts. The 640gb hard drive is huge for a relatively ‘normal’ user like me; I have a digital photo album, about 500-600 songs and a few videos saved so storage is not likely to be an issue for me. It comes with 6gb of RAM so the performance is pretty speedy (for me, it’s lightning fast compared to my old Dell but that is probably not the case for many others). Set up was a breeze and it worked smoothly right out of the box. My only issue is that I had some older software that is no longer compatible with Windows 7 but that’s not an HP issue and it’s a minor point regardless.
So, I’ve only had it for about 5 days but so far it’s great. As I said the screen looks great – love the 17″ size which will come in handy when I stream movies from Amazon. The responsiveness and boot up times are very good so far. The other surprising thing, pleasantly, is how light it is for it’s size. I’m not saying I would carry it around with me everywhere but if/when I do need to move it around I can tell that it won’t be very much of a burden.
So all in all very satisfied with this upgrade and would certainly recommend this for any normal uses like general web browsing. Not sure what serious gamers would think – I imagine this isn’t targeted at them anyway – but I do play an online golf game with pretty good graphics and it performs very well. Hope my initial impressions are helpful to someone else.
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This review is from: HP g7-1310us (17.3-Inch Screen) Laptop (Personal Computers)
I’d purchased this to replace a $350 Toshiba POS laptop (lol) for my 17 year old daughter. When we received it…we were both impressed at how thin it was for a sizable laptop (over 17″). As an ex-IT admin…I can easily say the most important thing to look for in a laptop is the RAM, which will determine how fast (or slow) your computing experience will be. The hard drive size isn’t too important with the large HD sizes currently available. Trust me when I say that if even if you’re a heavy downloader/internet user…it’ll be a LONG time before you come close to using up 640KB of HD space. That’s over a half a TB…which is a LOT of space! Let me break it down into pros/cons:
PROS: Incredibly fast start. The “welcome screen” pops up with very minimal delay…even after a reboot. Excellent display clarity – I’d rate it equivalent to most HDTV’s. Very fast downloading/use of internet Style wise, it looks impressive & has the technology to match Minimal “crapware” Boasts 6GB RAM for a very reasonable price
CONS: Makes Mom’s 1 year old, 15″ HP laptop look like a sluggish netbook (not that I’m jealous…lol).
All in all, for $529, this is an amazing deal!
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Excellent upgrade!,
OK, so to add some perspective to this I will say that I upgraded from a 4 year old underpowered Dell laptop with barely a gig of RAM so any upgrade would be a good one for me. That being said, I am still very impressed with my initial experience with this product. I got it for what I consider to be a very reasonable price – under $550 and less than it would have cost direct from HP, even with their promotions and dicounts. The 640gb hard drive is huge for a relatively ‘normal’ user like me; I have a digital photo album, about 500-600 songs and a few videos saved so storage is not likely to be an issue for me. It comes with 6gb of RAM so the performance is pretty speedy (for me, it’s lightning fast compared to my old Dell but that is probably not the case for many others). Set up was a breeze and it worked smoothly right out of the box. My only issue is that I had some older software that is no longer compatible with Windows 7 but that’s not an HP issue and it’s a minor point regardless.
So, I’ve only had it for about 5 days but so far it’s great. As I said the screen looks great – love the 17″ size which will come in handy when I stream movies from Amazon. The responsiveness and boot up times are very good so far. The other surprising thing, pleasantly, is how light it is for it’s size. I’m not saying I would carry it around with me everywhere but if/when I do need to move it around I can tell that it won’t be very much of a burden.
So all in all very satisfied with this upgrade and would certainly recommend this for any normal uses like general web browsing. Not sure what serious gamers would think – I imagine this isn’t targeted at them anyway – but I do play an online golf game with pretty good graphics and it performs very well. Hope my initial impressions are helpful to someone else.
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|Stunning Speed/Excellent Resolution For A BIG Laptop,
I’d purchased this to replace a $350 Toshiba POS laptop (lol) for my 17 year old daughter. When we received it…we were both impressed at how thin it was for a sizable laptop (over 17″). As an ex-IT admin…I can easily say the most important thing to look for in a laptop is the RAM, which will determine how fast (or slow) your computing experience will be. The hard drive size isn’t too important with the large HD sizes currently available. Trust me when I say that if even if you’re a heavy downloader/internet user…it’ll be a LONG time before you come close to using up 640KB of HD space. That’s over a half a TB…which is a LOT of space! Let me break it down into pros/cons:
PROS:
Incredibly fast start. The “welcome screen” pops up with very minimal delay…even after a reboot.
Excellent display clarity – I’d rate it equivalent to most HDTV’s.
Very fast downloading/use of internet
Style wise, it looks impressive & has the technology to match
Minimal “crapware”
Boasts 6GB RAM for a very reasonable price
CONS:
Makes Mom’s 1 year old, 15″ HP laptop look like a sluggish netbook (not that I’m jealous…lol).
All in all, for $529, this is an amazing deal!
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