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Never had a problem before with Amazon for Tiger. repair cost is $600+. I normally buy from Amazon but Tiger direct had a better price for refurb unit. Laptop is everthing I wanted. For a REfurb unit believe Tiger should have fixed this know latent design defect during refurb. Mine lasted for 6 mos. Was not aware of the problem with shut downs due to ac input problems (e.g acring etc0 known when you search the web. If you buy, get the extended warrenty since the est.
For the information of other Linux users, KUbuntu (H) and Mandriva 2008.1 installed on this machine with only one slight setup problem, in that for Mandriva you must download (from the PLF site) the latest non-free Nvidia drivers for the video to display all its possibilities.All other peripherals are recognized and configurated straight out of the box, no problem whatsoever.
If you know what you are doing, you can easily fix it by removing and installing newer drivers.I really do recommend this laptop. I checked the temperature pretty often, it never rose about 50C.6. Good graphics. Fast CPU. Keys. A/B/G/N + lan adapter provided everything I need to connect to a local/wifi network.5.
4GB DDR2 RAM. And the NVIDIA drivers work fine. This screen is huge and is beautiful. The primary reason why I got this model.4. Relatively cool. The edges are kind of sharp, so it is easy to pop off a key. HP was definitely lighter than the VAIO.------------Bad points.------------1. Maybe because I keep them up-to-date.2.
I lost two in a year. Keeps everything running fast.7. The close lock. Some people reported that by pressing the sound keys on the touchpad, the system freezes.
I purchased this laptop a little over a year ago and I'm fairly happy with it.------------Good points------------1. Vista runs fast and fine on this laptop. I experience crashes very rarely. 17" screen. However, that is easily fixed.2.
After a year, works fine and nothings loose.8. I program and my programs compile fast, for a laptop.2. Never once crashed on me. I compared this 17" with a 15" VAIO. ------------Bad points.------------1. When you close the screen, the lock is kind of hard to open.3. I do not why people hate Vista, its pretty great - just turn off UAC. The upper touchpad.
Can run some low-end games and can run 3d programs like Blender fine.3. I carry this in my school bag all day, mixed in with other books and calculators. I have yet to experience a major slowdown in almost a year. For a laptop, this graphics are pretty good. The rubber feet. Weights. Networking. Can take on considerable damage.
If you don't believe me just do a search on the Internet on HP Laptop problems. But they know they have problems with these DV series, but refused to do something about it. SORRY NO MORE HP. I do not recommend any HP laptops.I bought one for my son and me,two years ago and the one of my son died in january 2009 and today mine died. No more Support no more warranty from HP.Hp want to charge 400 Dollars for repair on mine.
It was no problem to have it see the epson printer, that stays here, but the printer I would likely take off to college with me was making me pull my hair out. and never want to add any programs, or hardware, Vista is fine. I'm not a computer nerd, though, I seem to be on one for the better part of my day. I've heard horror stories about them, but my experience has been the complete opposite. But if you had asked me during those three days, heh.the story would have included plenty of 4 letter words.In short--if you have all new state of the art printers (this one was 2 years old). I like to have one large laptop to use as a desktop, and a mini to use for toting around and note taking (that way, if there are any problems, I have a back-up, too, and don't miss any deadlines).So, this one arrived and it was OK. My husband used it to surf the net, and he said it seemed nice.Then, the day I decided to try to load a print driver for my all-in-one lexmark printer.
He managed to find some random chat forum, where people were moaning and groaning about the very same problems he was having, and someone posted a link to a driver or two, he came home, and it worked.I can't tell you what all was involved in those three days of hair pulling, but I can tell you that now it SCREAMS along with speed, it's SO MUCH BETTER than it even was, and I have no idea why the continue to plague us with that damned Vista crap anyway.NOW, that we've ironed out the issues, it's worth every penny I paid for it, and I love it. My husband worked on it for 3 days trying to iron out all the issues (he's fairly tech savvy, but he's not a computer repair guy, nor a software engineer, so it was beyond his scope of normal repair).I felt so bad.
I have an old XPS that is seriously a boat anchor, so I wanted to go back to grad school with a 17" laptop that wouldn't break my back. It was a nightmare.had it been me, I would have ended up crying.
I'm on my 10th laptop (I started WAY BACK in the day, when they were monochrome screens, even) and I had grown to be a Dell devotee for their deals and service. I asked my husband for help, and he ended up having so much trouble, that we decided to swipe the hard drive clean, and load XP.
If you have XP, and have patience and are good at finding things out and problem-solving (as my hubby is, not me) then it's definitely worth the money. I've purchased about 4 desktops and 4 laptops.I decided that it was time for a new 17" for me.
We were neither impressed nor distressed by it.
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