tonyorb
join:2008-09-28
College Park, MD
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| Need a laptop , which one of these HP's?
Need a new laptop for general home use. Looking at HPs.
This one from Office Depot G60-530us for $449.00 or this dv6-1352dx for $ 549.00 Best Buy. G60 has a bigger hard drive but slower processor? dv6 has more ram and is more upgradeable to 8gb but has smaller hard drive. I don't know enough about processors. All the other features seem to be comparable.
Any feedback is appreciated. |
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srr2
join:2001-12-20
Bethlehem, PA | Honestly? You'd have to pay me to take an HP laptop. |
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captokita
Premium
join:2005-02-22
Calabash, NC
| reply to tonyorb
Like srr2 said, I wouldn't buy an HP - which is sad, because they do make some nice looking machines. It's just their failure to stand behind their products that really turns me off to them.
My bias aside though. What are you looking for in a laptop? What do you plan to DO with it? If it's anything above the basics, I would say NEITHER of these machines will fit that bill. The ol saying of "you get what you pay for" comes to mind.
So start back at the beginning: What do you want to do with it?" |
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tonyorb
join:2008-09-28
College Park, MD
·Verizon FIOS
| This would be the communal upstairs pc.Npt really going on the road or used for work. No specialized functions or needs. Web searches, recipes, traffic cameras,etc.
Online games while watching TV. Everyone uses it to check webmail when too lazy to walk downstairs to the desktops.
I like the hdmi output for Netflix streaming movies. The occasional
DVD for long car trips etc. Skype for the kid at college. This is replacing a 7 year old toshiba that finally died. I guess I don't understand the bias against HP. Our medium sized company with
with a heavy IT presence has standardized on HP. All of our servers, desktops and laptops are HP |
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captokita
Premium
join:2005-02-22
Calabash, NC
| said by tonyorb  :I guess I don't understand the bias against HP. Our medium sized company with with a heavy IT presence has standardized on HP. All of our servers, desktops and laptops are HP Ah, but HP HOME is a far different beast than HP SB.  If you can somehow order your new laptop through your work, that would be great - or buy it direct from HP's site under the business side (if possible). HP is not alone here, most of the big companies have horrendous home support. Most of them will go out of their way on the SB side however. Dell's SB support is top notch. I've not dealt with HP's SB support, so I can't vouch 100% for it, but I'd wager it's the same.
If it's just a "general use" laptop, then they may fit the bill fine, however, just make sure you have plenty of RAM. HDMI out is nice, but if the machine is killing itself just running Windows, it's not going to make for a pleasant big screen viewer. |
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tonyorb
join:2008-09-28
College Park, MD | Thanks, I think you answered the question. The DV6 with 4 gb of ram , expandable to 8 gb is better than the G60 with 3gb expanding to only 4. Everything else being somewhat equal. |
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PeteC2
Got Mouse?
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join:2002-01-20
Bristol, CT
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| Not even a "contest"...the DV6 is a far better notebook.
Just for whatever it is worth: I have several HP notebooks, both for home and for work, as well as a HP Netbook. I have yet to have a single one of them perform poorly, and the times that I have needed HP support over the years, I would rate it as at least equal to the other major brands, and really, a bit better than most. However, all consumer electronics customer support is spotty to bad, due to the competition to keep product prices low, but customers expecting/demanding "free" customer support.
The result is that customer support from all major companies simply has too many cost-saving measures to be as good as any of us would like.
In today's world of bargain-priced, throw-away electronics, you get what you pay for. It is a different world from when laptop computers ranged from a "paltry" $1500, to over $2K-$3k for mainstream laptops...and keep in mind, if you take into account inflation, the price differential is even more profound.
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