Bought a HP Pavilion dv3-2310ea

Does anyone else have experience of this laptop? I paid £550 for it, should be delivered in a few days time.


Processor Intel® Core™ i3 Processor i3-350M
- 2.26 GHz
- 2.5 GT/s DMI
- 3 MB Smart Cache
Operating System Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium 64-bit
RAM - 3GB installed RAM (1 x 1024 MB + 1 x 2048 MB)
- DDR3
- 8GB maximum RAM capacity
Graphics card ATI Radeon™ HD 4550 Graphics
- 512 MB dedicated DDR3 memory
Screen type LCD widescreen
Screen resolution - WXGA
- 1366 x 768 pixels
Screen size 13.3"
Screen features - Multi Touch-screen
- LED backlighting
- BrightView surface
Hard drive 250GB SATA 7200rpm
Optical disk drive LightScribe SuperMulti DVD±RW with Double Layer Support
Memory card reader 5-in-1 integrated Digital Media Reader for Secure Digital cards, MultiMedia cards, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro or xD Picture cards
USB 3 x USB 2.0
FireWire No
Modem/Ethernet 1 x RJ-45 Ethernet port
Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n
Bluetooth Yes
Video interface 1 x HDMI
1 x VGA
Audio interface 1 x headphones-out
1 x mic-in
TV output HDMI, VGA
Extension card slot 1 x ExpressCard/54 Slot (also supports ExpressCard/34)
Webcam HP Webcam with Integrated Digital Microphone
Keyboard & Mouse - full size keyboard
- Touch Pad supporting Multi-Touch gestures, with On/Off button and dedicated vertical Scroll Up/Down pad
Battery 6-cell Lithium-Ion (Li-Ion) battery
Additional features Kensington lock slot
Accessories included Power cable, AC adapter, docuemntation
Software included Recovery partition (including possibility to recover system, applications and drivers separately)
Optional re-allocation of recovery partition
Recovery CD/DVD creation tool
Symantec™ Norton Internet Security™ 2009 (60 days live update)
Notebook Help & Support
HP TouchSmart, HP Setup, HP Advisor, HP Support Assistant, HP ProtectSmart, Bumptop™, DigiFish® Dolphin, MegaTouch games, Microsoft® Touch Pack Games, Corel® Paint it! Touch™, Cyberlink DVD Suite
Windows Live™ Applications, Windows Media center, HP Games Console with hours of free game play, EasyBits Magic Desktop, Norton Online Backup (30-day trial)
Microsoft® Internet Explorer
Windows® Live Messenger, Adobe® Reader, Adobe® Flash Player
Microsoft® Works and Microsoft® Office Home and Student 2007 60-Day Trial Version
Size 327 (L) x 221 (W) x 31.8 (min H) / 35.3 mm (max H)
Weight 2.11 kg

 

ok should get it today so will post photographs and some benchmarks if possible for anyone interested.

 

looks decent. pics would be nice

 

Will post some pics up tonight hopefully

I have been busy reinstalling Windows 7 64bit on it and following one of the guides here as there was too much bloatware on it.

Have just tested F1 2010 on the laptop, I reckon with newer drivers I should get a slight increase as I am using the HP official drivers from their website.
Settings 800X480, Medium Graphics, 2XMSAA, approx. 21fps showing in fraps.
I have the IOBits game booster software in the background.

Anything else you want me to show you?

Windows Experience Index shows 5, the graphics being the lowest, will take a photograph of it.

 

Logo illuminates when switched on






Sound quality through headphones is great, not sure about onboard speakers yet but they are Altec Lansing branded. Also notice the infra-red reciever, it works with the included remote control that I do not have with me at the moment




Wallpaper matches the case, also a free blue bag with dragon logo comes in the box with cleaning cloth.
Webcam on top has 2 microphones next to it and an led light although not tested that out yet or how to switch the light on just yet!




My graphic drivers are from the official support section on the HP website, I need to try and track down some newer ones but fps isn't too bad from the above settings


Am pretty happy with this laptop. Bit heavier and bulkier than my previous Q330 I had and almost double the thickness of my old Asus UL30a but much more powerful. Am happy with it so far.

 

Hi, I bought this laptop recently and wanted to re-install windows 7 but the laptop won't recognise any bootable disks! Boot order is set to cd drive first but it seems to just skip it. How can I boot from disk? Any help would be great

 

Unfortunately I have no idea why, not sure what the shortcut is but am sure one of the F buttons brings up a boot menu, where you can choose what to boot up, will try and find out. Am about to put my laptop on auction to sell it, have bought another one.

 

HP now knowledge that there is a known hardware fault.