HP dv7

PandaZ3 · Jan 12, 2010, 08:45 AM

My old Gateway P3 - 600 (750 plugged in) still works.... but no longer with a battery (No even a new one) and it is back to Win Me...becuase I'm cheap and..well because I'm cheap. No wireless (Did I mention I was cheap?) It is just not easy to use on the road anymore. Nor is my work Laptop (Fujitsu Tablet C2D 1.8) because of all the company security that I haven't taken the time to learn (Still cheap even with my time). It does have XP Pro and works reasonably well, but since I can't get through security on the road... I don't take it.

So just before Christmas I bought a HP dv7-3060US. I did not want a HP as I had one (Desktop) with Win 98 and a ton of bloatware...thats what drove me to building my own stuff. So HP was not on my mind when shopping.

Cheap was on my mind ... I was wanting a top of the line Toshiba or Loveno for around $500... believe it or not everyone was "Fresh out" of those. (Must have been Christmas season) I did see a HP that had a Turion II 2.1 or 2.2 that I thought was good looking with reasonable features for $550 and thought I would get that but the "Display" was their last one... I left but now HP was looking okay so the next store had a bigger better one for $800. I P---'d and moaned and then bought it.

It has Win 7 64 Home Premium. a 2.4 Turion II, a 500 Gig 7200 RPM HD (when did they move to 7200 RPM) and ATI 4530 -512 graphics

Anyways I did not even try getting rid of the bloatware. I do keep it in check mostly and it seems to work much better than I recall. No need to keep your computer on as it starts pretty fast. All in all I'm a lot happier than I would have thought and I am satisfied with the exorbitant expense.

iPlayer · Jan 13, 2010, 12:15 AM

Cool story, bro.

I would get rid of the bloatware.

PandaZ3 · Jan 13, 2010, 01:44 AM

I might do that, I did get rid of the free Norton (free for two months) and just went with Avast and Spybot

I haven't spent enough time with the bloatware to know what it does or doesn't do. I did not allow it to do much automatically.

I hate a computer running me .... I want to run the computer.

Jan 12, 2010, 08:45 AM	#1
PandaZ3 HardwareHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Cornelius, Oregon Posts: 419 Rep Power: 0	HP dv7 My old Gateway P3 - 600 (750 plugged in) still works.... but no longer with a battery (No even a new one) and it is back to Win Me...becuase I'm cheap and..well because I'm cheap. No wireless (Did I mention I was cheap?) It is just not easy to use on the road anymore. Nor is my work Laptop (Fujitsu Tablet C2D 1.8) because of all the company security that I haven't taken the time to learn (Still cheap even with my time). It does have XP Pro and works reasonably well, but since I can't get through security on the road... I don't take it. So just before Christmas I bought a HP dv7-3060US. I did not want a HP as I had one (Desktop) with Win 98 and a ton of bloatware...thats what drove me to building my own stuff. So HP was not on my mind when shopping. Cheap was on my mind ... I was wanting a top of the line Toshiba or Loveno for around $500... believe it or not everyone was "Fresh out" of those. (Must have been Christmas season) I did see a HP that had a Turion II 2.1 or 2.2 that I thought was good looking with reasonable features for $550 and thought I would get that but the "Display" was their last one... I left but now HP was looking okay so the next store had a bigger better one for $800. I P---'d and moaned and then bought it. It has Win 7 64 Home Premium. a 2.4 Turion II, a 500 Gig 7200 RPM HD (when did they move to 7200 RPM) and ATI 4530 -512 graphics Anyways I did not even try getting rid of the bloatware. I do keep it in check mostly and it seems to work much better than I recall. No need to keep your computer on as it starts pretty fast. All in all I'm a lot happier than I would have thought and I am satisfied with the exorbitant expense. __________________ It has to be Plugged In? To electricity? Video cards in house, 5770, 4650, HD 3870, X1950 XTX, X1900 XTX, X1900 XT and X1900 Crossfire, 2 X1800 XT's, X850 Pro, X800 Pro, AIW 9600XT, 9600 Pro, 9550 SE, 9200, 7000. XFX 6800 GS

Jan 13, 2010, 12:15 AM	#2
iPlayer Filled with noobsauce Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: between the buns Posts: 1,450 Rep Power: 59	Re: HP dv7 Cool story, bro. I would get rid of the bloatware. __________________

Jan 13, 2010, 01:44 AM	Thread Starter #3
PandaZ3 HardwareHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Cornelius, Oregon Posts: 419 Rep Power: 0	Re: HP dv7 I might do that, I did get rid of the free Norton (free for two months) and just went with Avast and Spybot I haven't spent enough time with the bloatware to know what it does or doesn't do. I did not allow it to do much automatically. I hate a computer running me .... I want to run the computer. __________________ It has to be Plugged In? To electricity? Video cards in house, 5770, 4650, HD 3870, X1950 XTX, X1900 XTX, X1900 XT and X1900 Crossfire, 2 X1800 XT's, X850 Pro, X800 Pro, AIW 9600XT, 9600 Pro, 9550 SE, 9200, 7000. XFX 6800 GS