My Birthday/Christmas Treat to Me!!..

Simian · 22 Dec 2008 at 22:10

After having a nasty year (I won't go into details but there are various threads on here about them!!) I decided to treat myself to a new Laptop/Desktop Replacement... it took a bit of searching and comparing loads of different Laptops of various sizes, but I finally decided and clicked 'Buy' on...

The Hewlet Packard HDX16-1005EA:

Intell Core Duo P8400 - 2.26Ghz (1066Mhz),
4Gb DDR2 RAM,
320Gb SATA Hard Drive,
16" Bright View Display - 1920x1080 Res,
nVidia GeForce 9600M GT - 512Mb,
LiteScribe Blu-Ray/DVD SM Drive,
Bluetooth,
Wifi (Pre-N),
TV Tuner with Remote - DVB-T,
WebCam,
Fingerprint Reader,
Windows Vista Home Professional 64bit.

I thought I'd treat you guys to the unwrapping Ceremony!!..

Unfortunately my copy of Nightmare before Christmas is still in the post!!

My Free Copy of Office2007 Home/Student

Crap Pic... Great Specs!!...

Who reads the 'Quick Start' manual!!??

Once Broken... Its Mine!!!..

Do I spy two Remotes... and an Aerial Adaptor??..

Nice Black Sock!... Flynn's not interested!!..

Mmmmm Pinstriping!..

Sexy 1080p Screen!..

I Spy HDMI... and one of those USB is also an e-SATA!!..

Temporary Home while I transfer all my Music and Documents!..

Illuminated Touch Sensitive Media Buttons..

Yep!... 2 Remotes!!..

That's where one of em goes!..

Mmmm Glossy Screen Goodness!!..

Get rid of That Crap!!...

Well its been on now since 2:30 when I got it through the door!... its very quiet... not too hot!.. even when transferring loads of files (Music and Video) over wi-fi...

its now playing some heavy metal in Winamp and the sound is awsome!.. I think the dedicated Sub-Woofer in the base is helping that!... not had a chance to get the Blu-Ray going yet!... and my DVB reception is crap in the Study!... but I've got tomorrow to have a longer Play!!

Stay Tuned!!

Simp

Simian · 22 Dec 2008 at 22:59

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

I'll put a 'My Desktop' in the 'My Desktop' thread when I'm finished fettling!!...

Simian · 31 Dec 2008 at 09:06

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!!.. :cool:

Simian · 31 Dec 2008 at 14:56

can't remember... its an edited screen.. I'll pop it on my webby if you want!...

http://simon2808.googlepages.com/Joker1080p.zip

Its graphics are awsome!!!...

Simian · 1 Jan 2009 at 16:48

the track pad is centered to the normal keyboard, because of the size theres a neumeric keypad like a normal desktop keyboard!..

I looked at the Dell laptops, and decided on the HP as it had the 64bit Flavor of Vista so it uses all of the 4Gb memory!..

Simian · 4 Jan 2009 at 16:21

I think theres about 6 screws in the bottom covering the hard drive.. then its a SATA drive...

The HP bods will probly know more!!

Simian · 5 Jan 2009 at 08:00

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!!).

Simian · 5 Jan 2009 at 18:46

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..

Simian · 7 Jan 2009 at 23:32

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!!.. :cool:

Simian · 8 Jan 2009 at 13:22

Takanta said:
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!!..

Simian · 8 Jan 2009 at 13:40

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!!)

Simian · 8 Jan 2009 at 13:57

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!!...

Simian · 8 Jan 2009 at 20:47

Deluxe1 said:
Do you get a vista oem dvd in the box?

Nope..

Takanta said:
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!..

Simian · 9 Jan 2009 at 08:23

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!.

Simian · 9 Jan 2009 at 11:13

You wanna see the HDX18 then!!... Thats HAWOOOOOOGE!!!...

I nearly got the 18 instead of the 16.. but couldn't justify the extra £200 for 2.4 inches of screen and 180Gb of extra storage (its got 2x 250Gb drives on the HDX18)..

I'm quite happy with my 16" 1080p screen and 320Gb of storage!.. I've about 130Gb left (lots of Music, Photos and Video!!).. if it starts getting too low I'll get an external drive and shift some stuff over!!..

Simian · 9 Jan 2009 at 13:15

Oooooo.. Let us know how it goes!!.. plus let us know if there is a spare drive bay in there!!.. as the HDX18 (as I said above) had 2x250Gb SATA drives and its not really that much bigger!!..

Simian · 10 Jan 2009 at 01:15

Yepski!... its there.. looks like an OEM sticker but its Vista Home Premium 64bit..

Simian · 12 Jan 2009 at 20:11

Deluxe1 said:
Got mine today and put in the 7200rpm drive,was a doddle took less than 5 mins.

I made the Restore DVD's yesterday... So I might do this at one point... :cool:

Simian · 21 Jan 2009 at 08:08

McLaren said:
I cude not get that model so i have got the HDX16-1010EA and i love it.

I've no idea what the difference between the 1005EA and the 1010EA is.. :confused:

I looked into it when I was deciding which to buy (I was looking at the HDX18 at that time!!) but still can't see what's different!!..

Its a Cooooool Laptop anyway!! :cool:

Simian · 21 Jan 2009 at 08:26

The HDX models only come in 16" and 18.4" flavours!... but there are 15" and 17" laptops from HP that are just as nice... they are a little less specced (no TV, 32bit Vista etc..) and they don't have the 'Pin Striping'... but they're still spanking machines!!!