My Birthday/Christmas Treat to Me!!..

[Atom]

I'm back from Christmas with the 'rents... now for a play with this beast!!!...

Heres the system:

The Experience Index:

And my Current 1080p Desktop:

(I've actally got it extended onto my 720p HDTV and it looks Spanking on there too!!)

I watched Wall-e in Blu-ray the other day on it at 1080p and it looked Fantastic (my face was only about 2 feet from the screen).. i now need a HDMI amp to get the fullHD Sound out of this!!!... listening on Headphones is great but nowt beats 5.1/7.1 sound!!..

Looks nice.. How did you get your icons at the top of the screen like that?

 

[Simian]

Its a great program called 'Rocket Dock' (google for it!!) have a lookie in this Monster Thread http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17403319 for more info (on the later pages... 200 and above!!).

 

[Zico]

Cost £880 delivered (guaranteed for today!!) with a copy of Office 2007 Home/Student thrown in (I haggled!!)...

I know where you bought it from but how did you haggle for Office if you bought it online (unless you bought it in store)?

 

[Simian]

I bought it 'in-store' but the sale's bod had to do it on their website (its a web exclusive) they gave me the Office Disc there in the shop..

 

[Takanta]

an amazing laptop , i like the pinstripes on it.

and its went down 80 quid in price

 

[Simian]

Might well be... but you try getting one!!..

I've not seen one 'In Stock' on any website for less than I paid!!... there was one site that had a free Printer and were selling it all for £900 and they had 1 in stock!...

I don't really care about £80quid i could phone em up and say "Oi its within 14 Days of Purchase!!.. can I have the Difference in Reddies??" (I've done that before!!!.. i got office Free (when I shouldn't really have!! ) plus I have the laptop here... in front of me... and I'm typing on it now!!..

 

[yantorsen]

looks awesome

 

[Takanta]

Im gonna shop around to see if anyone will price match this .

atm ive only seen it around for 850-950 quid.

 

[Simian]

Im gonna shop around to see if anyone will price match this .

atm ive only seen it around for 850-950 quid.

Good luck finding stock!!.. its very poplier!!.. even the 18.4" screened version is out of stock in most places!!.. and thats £200 more!!..

 

[bledd]

as with any new system

format it

 

[Simian]

It comes with surprisingly little crap installed!!.. all I had to get rid of was that bloody awful Symantec Crap!.. and put Avast on in its place!!..

I'm looking at a dock for it now and an external HD to boost the storage! (Credit Crunch!!.. What Credit Crunch!!)

 

[Deluxe1]

Anyone know how easy / hard it is to replace the hardrive with a 7200rpm?

 

[Simian]

There's summut like 6 screws in the bottom on the hard drive cover.. its just a standard SATA drive.. so whip it out... slap it in (ooo matron!!).. I've not got the balls to even undo the screws to look let alone whip it out!.. (there I go again!! lol)...

Someone on here who like fettling might know!!...

 

[Deluxe1]

Do you get a vista oem dvd in the box?

 

[Takanta]

I dont think HP provide u with the OS dvd, because most of them have the recovery partition on the harddrive

 

[Simian]

Do you get a vista oem dvd in the box?

Nope..

I dont think HP provide u with the OS dvd, because most of them have the recovery partition on the harddrive

Yep.. 11Gb of the HD is Partitioned and used!..

 

[Ben643]

That looks really nice... I quite fancy a new laptop but this is slightly too big for what I'd need I think

 

[yashiro]

How much battery life on this beast? About 2 hours?

 

[Simian]

Yep.. I think I saw an independent test get about 2 hours 10 minutes out of it!.. but HP say between 1 hour 45 minutes to 2 hours 30ish...

I've not tried it yet t see.. I always run it on Power!.

 

[yashiro]

Yeah, it is very powerful. It's more of a portable desktop, rather than a travelling persons computer.