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Mister Eee
10/14/09

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I'd buy it if I didn't already know of HP's crappy build quality and worse than non-existent customer service for consumers.
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KTK1990
10/14/09

@Mister Eee: Long Live Summer: Same here. I have a Dv7, it has been to the HP repair center 3 times already for the same issue. One time they even returned it with no work done because I was not willing to pay $400 for a new keyboard, and they said that since the keyboard wasnt perfect, thats the reason why the system was overheating, and it was under warrenty.
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Mister Eee
10/14/09

@KTK1990: I love irony. I also own a DV7 (the 10xx first gen series) and it's been in for repair twice and had it's battery replaced already and is just horribly built.

And they also returned mine once because it had a second "non-HP" drive in the second slot and that was the cause of a dead pixels in the display panel.

And as for the heat mines overheated twice but that was because the CPU fan died. It's normal temps are between 60C and 80 with 90 to 100C when gaming.

I should have known better than to buy that dv7 as I also have a HP 530 which had it's mobo replaced 3 months in, battery 5 months in and "mystery" item fixed when I sent it in for the third time (it's a mystery because they refuse to tell me what they fixed.)
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MushyHeirloom
10/14/09

@Mister Eee: Long Live Summer: We can hope that this one dv8s from the HP quality norm... but I wouldn't get my hopes up.

I took apart my friend's dv6*** last week to clean the dust out of it, and was appalled by the way it was assembled - the cheap plasticky feeling of the chassis is not just a feeling, I'll say that. Even my partner's old Presario V4000 is sturdier, and that was never much of a laptop.

Meanwhile, my Inspiron 9400 has accompanied me over several thousand miles and had the crap figuratively beaten out of it, and the only things wrong with it are a dying battery and hinge issues.
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KTK1990
10/14/09

@Mister Eee: Long Live Summer: I had no choice really... I had a Dv8000t and it overheated (same issues as this one) and was out for 2 months at repair center... took hp 2 months to send this one out, and we agreed on a certain model with certain stuff, and they sent the wrong model with less power then what we got.. a few times they even said that they werent replacing the Dv8000t with the Dv7, and it finally came one day.... a few weeks later got the right OS and the right accessories. My Dv7 looks exactly like the one in the picture, except the headphone port is on the other side. It collects fingerprints like a magnet and never stays clean.
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aldenhg000001
10/14/09

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There's a strip club down the road from my apartment that's called DV8. Way to pronounce things that you write down, HP.
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Mandatory_Field
10/14/09

@aldenhg000001: Could be worse, I suppose: They could have called it the dvNT...
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Slyd3z
10/14/09

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"Laptop"? This thing? Only if your first name is Paul and your last name is Bunyan.
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