Supposedly, it wont ship for another 8 business days. I have my suspicions HP dv7t Quad Ed • steel gray • Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit • 2nd generation Intel(R) Quad Core(TM) i7-2820QM (2.3 GHz, 8MB L3 Cache) w/Turbo Boost up to 3.4 GHz • 2GB GDDR5 Radeon(TM) HD 6770M Graphics [HDMI, VGA] • 8GB DDR3 System Memory (2 Dimm) • System Recovery DVD with Genuine Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit • 660GB 7200RPM Dual Hard Drive (SSD 160GB + 500GB 7200RPM) • One 6-Cell and One 9-Cell Lithium-Ion Battery • 17.3" diagonal Full HD HP Anti-glare LED Display (1920 x 1080) • Blu-ray player & SuperMulti DVD burner • HP TrueVision HD Webcam with Integrated Digital Microphone and HP SimplePass Fingerprint Reader • Intel 802.11b/g/n WLAN and Bluetooth(R) with Wireless Display Support My current laptop is aging, at 4.5 years old +- has a 1.67 ghz Core 2 Duo T5450 with no video hardware acceleration; and 3gb of DDR; and only has a typical spinning hdd. So, it will be nice to play video games on my computer if I so choose lol. Once it's here, I'll publish my superpi, and futuremark test results
Just curious... with specs like these, why did you go with a laptop instead of a desktop? There is no doubt that is a monster of a laptop, but its going to have huge heat issues.
Congrats, but the significance most of that is Greek to me. Curious though, why state... You think it will take longer and/or does HP have a bad rep on ship dates?
I've heard stories that it's not so bad, and some that the heat is significant. I'll see when I get it. Why a laptop instead of a desktop? For work, I need portability, and power. This laptop I've been operating on for 4.5 years just isn't enough... and I want to future proof myself a little better, hence the top level CPU, GPU, and HDD options. In the past, I used to build my own desktops. Since I am not flowing with money, I'm simply putting a sound amount into the one I'd use the most. Just the opposite is my suspicion based on what I've read around the web on custom builds.
I thought the exact same thing when I read 17.3", but I have a 17" laptop at the moment, portability is a *****.
Just arrived! Home on my lunch break to check it out. A quick super pi test without configuring anything is 58.5s to the 4M digit calculation for Pi. My aging laptop was about 4 minutes fully tweaked out, and my old desktop was about 6:30 fully tweaked out. Wow! I'm glad I ordered metalic finished box... it is big, easy to read. So far...
When I ditched my POS Toshiba Satellite with a 17" screen, or shall i say when it died on me, I went to a 15" screen on my new Samsung. I liked the idea of the 17" screen, but it's portability was terrible. Couldn't even really use it on a plane. Like my 15" much better.
I have just about the same Hp as you do. ( no tv ) Had it for several months. Heat has not been an issue but I have heard the fan kick into high speed several times while the PC has been idle. No real issues with the PC. The 17.3 screen is great and works for me. It seems that most of the problems with these laptops is NOT with the hardware but with the software. In the past I have had problems that were MORE related to the Windows ## opereating system then anything else. Windows 7 however seems to be the best going back to W95.
I've had the computer for about 2 weeks. The fan kicks into high gear only when I've stressed it lol. I couldn't be happier with the computer. My wifi signal abilities is easily an extra 60 ft from my wifi usb card that was a top level deal for my other laptop. The 9 cell battery was definitely the right choice, as it tilts the keyboard up slightly, and helps with airflow under the computer. This thing is fast. The fingerprint reader is gimmicky, but pretty quick to log in with. I still haven't installed any games yet. Seems HP's graphics options are the weakest link in the system with the 2gb Radeon 6770.
My uncle ordered an HP recently too, for work. He likes it as far as I can tell. Sounds like HP has began to turn things around on the pc-laptops. I may have to look closer at them.
I can't speak for other HP products, but I love my touchpad, the new HP printers are fantastic, and this laptop really rocks. I would never buy a desktop ore-built though.
