Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #3730 in Personal Computers
- Brand: HP
- Hard Disk: 750GB
- Display size: 17.3
Features
- 3rd generation Intel Core i7-3610QM Processor 2.30GHz with Turbo Boost Technology up to 3.30GHz; Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium (64-bit)
- 750GB 7200RPM HYBRID hard drive with HP ProtectSmart Hard Drive Protection; 16GB DDR3 1600MHz RAM (2 DIMM)
- 17.3-inch diagonal Full HD Anti-glare LED-backlit display (1920 x 1080), Blu-ray player and SuperMulti DVD burner; 6 Cell Battery
- 2GB (2048MB) NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M GDDR5 Graphics; Intel Centrino Wireless-N 2230 and Bluetooth®; Intel Wireless Display Support
- Backlit Keyboard; Beats Audio with 4 speakers & HP Triple Bass Reflex Subwoofer; 3 SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Ports; 2 Year HP Warranty
HP Pavilion DV7-7000 17.3" 1080p Anti-Glare Quad HYBRID series, 3rd Gen Intel Core i7 Ivy Bridge GDDR5 Nvidia Gaming Laptop in Midnight Black with 16GB DDR3 RAM Upgrade; DV7T
Product Description
Meet the new top-line Pavilion dv7-7000 series Notebook, a feature-packed entertainment laptop. You get a latest-generation processor, high-performance graphics and performance Hybrid SSD 7200RPM hard drive for storing media. Transfer media fast via USB 3.0, see everything clearly on the large, full HD 1080p display, and stay comfortable with CoolSense technology. Processor: 3rd generation Intel Core i7-3610QM Processor 2.30GHz with Turbo Boost Technology up to 3.30GHz - Operating system: Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit) - Memory: 16GB DDR3 System Memory (2 DIMM) ; Maximum supported = 16GB - Display: 17.3-inch diagonal Full HD Anti-glare LED-backlit display (1920 x 1080) - Video Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M graphics with 2048MB GDDR5 - Audio: Beats Audio with 4 speakers and the HP Triple Bass Reflex Subwoofer - Primary CD/DVD drive: Blu-ray Player & SuperMulti DVD Burner - Hard drive: 750GB 7200RPM Hybrid hard drive with HP ProtectSmart Hard Drive Protection - Networking: Integrated 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet LAN (RJ-45 connector) - Wireless options: Intel Centrino 2230 Wireless N & Bluetooth - Media Reader: Digital Media Card Reader for Secure Digital and Multimedia cards - I/O ports: 3 SuperSpeed USB 3.0 ; 1 Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0 ; 1 HDMI ; 1 VGA (15-pin) ; 1 RJ-45 (LAN) ; 1 Headphone-out ; 1 Microphone-in Power: 120W AC Adapter ; 6-cell lithium-ion battery Backlit Keyboard: Yes Finish: Brushed aluminum in midnight black; HP TrueVision HD Webcam with integrated dual array digital microphone; HP SimplePass with integrated fingerprint reader Warranty and support 2-Year Limited Hardware Warranty with Toll Free Support; 2-Year Free Hardware Technical Support EcoHighlights, ENERGY STAR Qualified: Yes EcoHighlights, EPEAT Registered: Silver DNLA certified logo: Yes
Customer Reviews
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By D. F. Watt
1) blisteringly fast system overall - even with just a hybrid hard drive (SSD speed for frequently accessed files). With full SSD (Crucial M4 265 GB in one system, Samsung 830 in the other) boots to welcome screen in under 8 sec - full desktop only another 4 seconds away. With just hybrid drive and no full SSD, still boots in under 18 seconds.2) superb screen - anti-glare really makes a difference, with the upgraded 1080p display. Very accurate and bright color with great viewing angles. Poor man's Retina display for half the money? Intel's terrific screen utility allows for adjusting color, gamma and virtually all display parameters to get very accurate color, tone, saturation, gamma, etc. With professional tweaking, capable of extremely accurate color (notably without some of the color problems seen in the 15 inch HP Envy).3) excellent sound system (in combination with the great display - best possible blu-ray experience currently on any computer (rivaling plasma TV).4) backlit keyboard (finally!) with decent feel (but see cons!) with full number keypad (can't get that in smaller laptops).5) very decent battery life, especially for big laptop because of (switchable) motherboard graphics and other Ivy Bridge efficiencies - runs very cool on motherboard graphics esp. compared to old Envy 17s with its full time power-hogging dedicated video card.6) solid video game performance - there are probably better video cards but upgraded Nvidia 650M GT offers very good performance for the money.7) my one experience with HP service was surprisingly positive - got a technically very sophisticated person who helped solve the problem quickly.8) Relatively light for its size - under 7 lbs. Lightest 17+ inch laptop with two drive bays - including the overpriced but high quality Apple MBP 17.9) Second drive bay allows for either huge total storage or drive redundancy (I have extra OS partition which has been life saver after hard drive corrupted by rogue program behavior and blue screen. Can't get that in smaller package10) Loved the first one so much that I bought a second one for another office, and just cloned the whole system - had a fully set up system after just 30 minutes of drive copying (identical hardware so all the drivers and software from one system carried over to the other without a hitch). Second one works as well as the first.Cons:1) internal microphone is distinctly poor quality - only piece of hardware on the system that is not really first rate - makes speech recognition programs unusable without an external microphone - I wonder if someone left a piece of tape over it - no treble sensitivity at all.2) HP service is getting better, but still has a ways to go at least according to recent reviews3) Windows 7 still is not the most reliable operating system particularly when compared to the Mac OS X but it is nice to look at, and much easier to customize.4) Trackpad is about the jumpiest around - must turn it off to do much typing as even brushing against it lightly will cause cursor to go crazy and start selecting and deleting text all over the page. Enabling palm check function in touchpad driver doesn't solve this problem.5) Wish keyboard lighting could be varied - one brightness level only.6) Not able to get Win 7 much longer - may even be closed out of this better debugged OS by end of 2012 (you would be forced to install Win 7 from separately purchased OS install disc.)This is the fastest system I've ever used. With the new Ivy Bridge chipset, a Crucial M4 SSD (highly recommended) can load large files at over 500MB second, and it boots into the desktop in an honest 12 seconds. This makes it really painless to shut the system down instead of having it go into hibernate or suspend - which Windows system have never excelled at frankly. Indeed the boot time is far less from a cold boot that it is from hibernate, and it starts up faster than it shuts down (another Win 7 feature of dubious value). HP has also significantly improved the sound system (relative to my previous Envy 17 which itself was pretty decent), with really good volume levels. Superb playback of Blu-rays, and unlike some previous systems, I have yet to find a Blu-ray that won't run on the included software. Even with a subpar internal microphone, I would say this is the finest and most complete laptop I've ever used - and that includes the new MacBook Pros which are more than twice as expensive (and good luck trying to get blu-rays to play on Macs unless they are running BootCamp and Windows).Great job HP!ADDENDUM JULY 2012:System is just a joy and a delight to work with. Continues to speed along without any real problems. Updated a bunch of drivers through HP Assistant. Best electronics purchase in a long time.SEPT 2012 UPDATE:Still having problems with a jumpy trackpad that moves the cursor all over the place - just disable the TP when trying to do much typing. Also, I had first serious problem (hard drive failure due to some kind of malignant program interaction between Flash, Office and Dragon Naturally Speaking). Don't blame HP for this. Fortunately, the second drive bay allows me to back up the system partition regularly to another drive (the original 1 TB mechanical hard drive) and this saved me. Would recommend other users do the same, as system restore won't work if you have a hard drive failure and trashed system files (see my negative review of Naturally Speaking 11 and 12 - they are probably the culprit, or at least in the mix with some other misbehaving programs). Still believe that in terms of basic hardware, this is the best large screen laptop out there, including the MBP 17. HP's service looking better and better. They appear to have really made a major effort to clean up their act. Highly, highly recommended.OCT 2012 UPDATERecommend users get DriverMax for driver updates - great freebee that beats HP's system, which is better than many, but still not adequate. Superb system, best computer I have ever owned, even with the jumpy trackpad and lousy internal microphone. Screen quality, speed, keyboard, all first-rate. Some blu-rays more enjoyable on this than on big living room plasma. Updated Intel MB graphics drivers allow customizing of gamma, color saturation, hue, so that you can get screen to be very accurate for color in terms of photos and videos. Love the anti-glare coating on the screen also - couldn't go back to stock screen. Best computer purchase ever. Will buy a second one for upstairs office before being forced to go Win 8. Not everyone wants a tablet interface and operating system. They really (finally) have the drivers for this running nicely - almost no blue screens (outside of Dragon Dictation). Runs like a top. Not just the best computer system I have ever used (have owned several dozen), the best one by a HUGE margin. Buy one before you can't get Win 7 anymore.DEC 2012 UpdateThis system continues to blow me away with its reliability and overall excellence. Some of this is just dumb luck frankly - if you have a bad device driver, this can make any Win 7 system a nightmare, and right now (knock on wood) there are no bad device drivers on the system. Have used DriverMax to get all updated drivers - one at a time, and only one per week, just to make sure that the new driver is not a blue screen waiting to happen. The second cloned system in my other office works flawlessly too.This is, as I said earlier, not only the best computer I have ever used, but the best by a large margin. Hard to get one from HP with Win 7 anymore with just a few left in their inventory. Don't know about Win 8. Too early to tell but would predict the usual video and sound card driver problems and other teething issues. Buy one now with Win 7 before they are all gone.
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