Core 2 Duo

[colorider]

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[CMasten]

ok so an early Merry Christmas to me

I am giving my Dell Lattitude back to my old employeer so decided to research a new Core 2 Duo with all the bells for me. It all seemed to come down to just one unit, as 17" was a requirement. The new HP Pavillion DV9030S. I managed to find just one at a Circuit City in another town, spent most of yesterday upgrading the OS to Vista Ult, adding Office 2007 etc, all I can say is WOW.............. HP did this one right, 2gigs of ram, dual 100 gig sata drives, a built in web cam, dual mics, and a huge plus for me, a light scribe enabled DL burner, media reader the list goes on, they really packed a lot into this machine and its all built on a 667mhz bus, none of this 667 to 533 stuff that Dell likes to play with memory etc.. ! the build quality on this unit is outstanding. They even had Altec Lansing find a way to put in a decent sounding set of speakers with LFD. Graphics to drive this stunning display are handled by an NVidia 7600 /256 megs of dedicated memory and you can get one with 512megs of memory. A new feature on some of these media enabled laptops is the ability to play music or DVD without having to boot the OS.. nice touch for rode trips etc.

If your in the market for a desktop replacement I would have to say this one is worth looking at.

[jl_ss]

Originally posted by CMasten
ok so an early Merry Christmas to me

I am giving my Dell Lattitude back to my old employeer so decided to research a new Core 2 Duo with all the bells for me. It all seemed to come down to just one unit, as 17" was a requirement. The new HP Pavillion DV9030S. I managed to find just one at a Circuit City in another town, spent most of yesterday upgrading the OS to Vista Ult, adding Office 2007 etc, all I can say is WOW.............. HP did this one right, 2gigs of ram, dual 100 gig sata drives, a built in web cam, dual mics, and a huge plus for me, a light scribe enabled DL burner, media reader the list goes on, they really packed a lot into this machine and its all built on a 667mhz bus, none of this 667 to 533 stuff that Dell likes to play with memory etc.. ! the build quality on this unit is outstanding. They even had Altec Lansing find a way to put in a decent sounding set of speakers with LFD. Graphics to drive this stunning display are handled by an NVidia 7600 /256 megs of dedicated memory and you can get one with 512megs of memory. A new feature on some of these media enabled laptops is the ability to play music or DVD without having to boot the OS.. nice touch for rode trips etc.

If your in the market for a desktop replacement I would have to say this one is worth looking at.

I believe it. I just purchased a similiar but lesser model Core 2 Duo HP notebook for my daughter (the 15.4" WS DV6149US) at CC. I started out buying a Toshiba that had screen problems, software issues, and build quality seemed really cheap. I brought that back and got the HP. The HP has no issues and seems to be a lot higher in quality. I'd definately consider the DV9030S if I was in the market for a replacement 17" notebook.