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Posted by Norm on March 27, 2005, 5:13 pm
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I bought a dv1000 for my daughter for college within the past 2 months.
It was picked up by FedEx on Friday and sent back to HP for a complete
system/hardware troubleshoot. The keyboard and trackpad froze up
intermittently and randomly. It required a hard reboot (on-off
button)to get access to the computer again. I did all the normal
troubleshooting (anti-virus, spy-bot and ad-aware, memtest, defrag,
checkdisk, etc) and HP support had me reinstall Windows. I
specifically upgraded the memory to 512K to avoid overload by WinXP.
The dv1000 has really great features and appears to be a great value.
If HP fixes ours, I will say that it "is" a great value. If they
can't, it might as well be a doorstop. I'm rooting for HP.
I just wanted to put in my two cents. I hope it helps.
Manfred wrote:
> I'm torn between the HP dv1000 and the Sony S360. The former clearly
> represents much better value, but the latter is such a sleek machine
that it
> makes the decision more difficult. (Amongst other things, I'll be
using one
> or the other machines to exploit Dragon Naturally Speaking with a USB
mike.)
>
> Anybody here used either or both units for an extended period? If
so, your
> thoughts would be much appreciated.
>
> One concern I have about the dv1000 is noise coming from the
hard-drive.
> I'd be especially grateful for any thoughts or recommendations
concerning
> this potential problem, and how it might be circumvented.
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