HP dv2000t User Reviews August 7th, 2006 | by Alan Dang
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Good Laptop
by Samuel on Apr 7th, 2008 at 2:29 PM:
Hey, I am a computer graduate and my profession is to develop Software's.
I bought an Hp Notebook on Dec, 2007; I spent around $800 and got an AMD (2.2 GHz, Turon), 2GB Mem, Vista, Webcam/Mic/Fingerprint.
My experience with my Notebook is awesome; I might have switched it off hardly a couple of time otherwise its running continuously for the last 4 months and it never heated. Believe me my roommate is having a Dell Laptop and my machine is far cooler than his.
AMD is superb processor. AMD Rocks.....
People generally think that processor makes noise, actually processor never makes any sound; all that you hear is the sound produced by the Fan sitting on the processor. This fan is there to chill out the processor, which gets heated when processing a job.
One more thing; my processor fan was making some hissing sound all the time, which means the processor, is always at work. Then later I discovered that
the processor has to spend lot of energy on keeping the brightness of the screen, so all I did was I adjusted (reduced) the brightness of my screen and the processor went pin-drop silent, you need to play around a couple of times to find that specific brightness at which process runs easy (make it to slightly more than half), this would also reduce the heat that any processor generates.
This option is available in Control Panel.
You will find lots of people telling you about heating problem etc. but I think every Laptop heats. I have examples in my friend circle that had Dell/Sony etc. and their Processors/Motherboards were literally burnt because of heat. One of my friends Laptop can never be used on a Lap because it emits so much of heat and it's a SONY Vaio. One of my friends got his hard disk replaced 3 times and it's a Dell. After all it's an electronic product, anything can go wrong, and so it's all your luck and nothing about HP or Dell or SONY.
So just go for a machine that best suits your need and pocket. Have a relaxed and nice time.
Never Buy HP
by schott on Mar 13th, 2008 at 6:04 PM:
HP: The name itself suggests its is no good.
I bought a dv2000t notebook and after 7 months I found a lot of problems with it like overheating, automatic shut down, etc. When I called customer service, who are a bunch of guys who do not care about the customers, they told me to send the laptop in for repair.
After 2 months I didn't get my laptop. This is the way they treat the customers and they never talk politely! The common answer I heard is they can't do anything at this point of time. So people, beware of of the HP dv2000t and don't buy any HP products!
Never buy HP
by Azim on Jan 21st, 2008 at 10:48 AM:
I have ordered the dv2500t notebook pc from HP online store for about a one and half month back, I got the notebook in just 10days after building in china. On 19th December I got it and after doing the set up this laptop started giving me problem from the very first hour itself.
1) The problem was weird the memory in the hard drive was keep on decreasing automatically even if am not storing data in it. I called up technical assistance and they ask me to perform recovery on the day 1 of my new product. I perform the recover but no result.
2) contacted again the HP guys and they ask me to do the hard disk test which took 75 min. The memory check passed.
3) I called again and they perform some updates on it but no results, so they drop my call.
4) Called again they performed disk cleanup, defragmentation everything but no result.
5) Finally on day 5th they said they will be sending a recovery disk which took almost 4 days to reach me, on December 28th I called them again saying I have got the CD and performed the recovery and the memory is still losing. So they sent me a FedEx box where I have to send the laptop to the service centre. I got the box on 2nd of January and send it to them on 4th January.
6) The estimated delivery for my laptop was 16 January when I didn't get my laptop I called them again and ask about the shipment and they said they will send me a new one.
7) When I called again on 17th of January they said the delivery date for my laptop is 30th of January, which screw me up and I ask them either exchange my laptop with new one or give me my money back and their response was very bad and said they won't send a new one after calling again and again they forwarded my call to sales manager and she was another mess.
8) I explained her my case and what happened to me and they way I am suffering with my brand new product, her response was she can't I do anything. I ask her what that means. So she replied the product is in repair centre and they can't do anything until I get my product back by 30th January. I told her can you replace the product if it is not fixed when I get back and her reply was as the product was with me for more than 21 days and as per the HP return policy (within 21days) I have to send it back but at the moment I am not applicable which is the stupid thing anybody ever hear. I was trying to be more patient with these guys and they broke it The problem with my laptop was from day 1 itself, on my first call when I asked HP customer executive they assure me to send me a new notebook if they couldn't solve my issue.
9) Well I got my laptop back today luckily and I was so happy to see it back I switched it on and in 15 minutes again 1GB memory was gone. I run it for 3 hrs and I lose around 5 GB of memory I think today I called them for about 20 times and nobody is bothered the case manager was suppose to give me a call but she didn't . I think they are least bothered about the customer.
10) I think during this case I called them for abut more then 50-60 times and nobody bothers about my pain. I am a student I go to school and who else know the worth of laptop. I am going to library in -5 degree centigrade to do my work after paying $900 for this product.
Please don't ever buy this product or any product from HP, my sincere to you all.
Great laptop for student, 10 months+ and going
by Grant on Dec 3rd, 2007 at 11:14 AM:
I'm a grad student and this is my first laptop. I'm aware that there're many mixed reviews about this machine, with problems ranging from stuck keys to dim screens to slow processing speeds and a too-slick finger pad. According to the number of bad reviews, people seem to get "duds" a lot, which may turn you off this laptop, but luckily, mine, has been great so far and wanted to let people know about a positive experience with the dv2000t.
Pros: I like this machine's style, performance and portability. I usually carry it around in a laptop backpack (usually with papers and textbooks sometimes crammed in pretty tightly) and have had no issues with durability or cracked cases so far (I've been using it every day for over 10 months now). I won't be testing how much weight it can endure, though, since its casing is mostly made of plastic. It does have quite a few scratches on its "scratch resistant" lid, but its sleekness is enough that I don't mind.
The screen is clear, bright and displays crisp edges with no dead pixels (I received a QDS-make matte screen so I can't comment on the glossies) and the keyboard is quiet and functional despite some overheating (which I blame on Vista's memory hogging). When on, the fan is audible, but discreet, and I don't understand the fuss over the touchpad. I use it all the time. It's slick, yes, but it works as well as any I've used before. Just adjust its sensitivity to your liking and you'll get used to the smooth feeling. The touchpad buttons are accurately described as "cheap" feeling in that they give very easily and you press farther down (gives the impression that they're loose), but they work. What else do you want in a button?
I don't play memory-hogging games so I don't know how well it performs in heavy-use gaming contexts, but I do use programs like Photoshop with very large files which killed my desktop, and I can have music playing and a web browser open and several IM programs on and everything is still pretty fast. I do have 2 Gigs of memory, though.
The ports are all functional and I found the 3 USB ports, the SD card slot and S-video cable port very useful. I'm able to get wireless connections from a decent distance and I have a built-in webcam, which is also extremely handy. The mica is very sensitive and the picture is decent.
The dv2000t is quite light (5 or so lbs), so it's great for a student who travels between the office, lab and home a lot.
Cons: the battery life is definitely not that great, though I don't have to use it away from an outlet much. I normally use the 6 cell battery (now I get maybe an hour+ with music, web surfing and word processing, thanks again to bulky Vista), but I also bought the 12 cell, which I store in my fridge when not in use since it does add to the weight.
This machine also can overheat easily if you have many large programs going, especially in a hot room or on a soft surface. I have a program running that monitors its temp and shuts it down when it gets too hot. I'm going to get a cooling pad, which I think will solve the problem. This overheating issue doesn't happen enough for me to dislike all the good things about this laptop.
Overall, I've had a great experience with the hp dv2000t so far. Granted, I haven't had to deal with customer service, though I haven't heard of any computer companies these days with fantastic CS. Hopefully I'll never have to deal with that, because if HP does its job and sends it to you fully functional as was the case for me (I ordered it online), and you treat it well, it's a great laptop and at this point I don't see myself regretting my decision to buy it.
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Bad Product / Bad Customer Service (HP)
by DSimmons on Apr 23rd, 2008 at 3:42 PM:
One of these problems was a very noisy CD-DVD drive, which stopped me from watching DVDs or listening to books on CD. Which is odd, given this was marketed as an entertainment/media PC.
In early Jan '08 this PC would not boot up but a dos message showed that I should contact the manufacturer as it had either a hard drive failure or a CD-DVD drive failure. I contacted HP and they sent me replacement hard drive (160gb), cd-dvd drive and recovery cd. After installing all I realize my factory installed software, of this custom build PC, was either missing or not working. E.G. MS OFFICE package, which HP did not give me CDs for, was asking for a key code.
HP has arranged for this PC to go to repair, but it came back with same problem plus a few more. HP then promised to send me a replacement PC but it never arrived. Escalation thru Corp as case manager wouldn't return calls. Next case manager tells me he won't help me until I send back HP parts (the broken parts) and he'll send me labels & packaging material for me to ship back. Time goes by, passing the date he said I'd have this packaging and I call back. He says he'll "expedite packaging again" (this is after a week), but that he still won't help me resolve my PC issues until HP gets their broken parts back.
I get matched up with another case manager who insists on sending my PC back to repair again, confident HP repair will fix it this time! Ha, it comes back with same problems plus more. This time I can't even open the CD-DVD drive! He promises to send me a replacement PC in ten days, but it has never arrived. I've called him many times and he doesn't return my call.
While my PC is still under warranty, I've had it with HP and am now pursuing this matter in a legal forum.
HP has absolutely no integrity and truly doesn't care about their customers. I've been searching the web and there are just too many stories of unhappy HP customers and far too many that have spent months and months being jerked around by HP when a problem occurs with an HP product.
I'll never buy an HP product again.