DV2000T with Core 2 Duo shipped today !!!!!

Received my laptop today. Sending it back tomorrow. I'm not happy with the screen. It's a SEC and it's very dimm; specially after seeing the QDS screen.
This time I'll try to make sure they send me a QDS screen. I've read somewhere in here you can do that.
I'll let you guys know.

 

yay i got my dv2000t with c2d.. i love it.. with a CMO monitor.. anything is better than SEC!! haha

 

so she wasnt lying....mine is at the dest sort facility in jamaica queens....hope i recieve it today.......

 

FYI, my package was also released at the same time in Indianapolis last nite and they have already attempted a delivery at my door in Maryland by 9:49am. Of course, no one was at the door. I wonder if I will be able to pick it up at their facility by the end of today.

Once I get in, I will rip it apart and reassemble it with a different hard drive and leave the one they ship as a backup. I will also attempt to abuse the machine, like perform a 5-foot drop and do a coffee spill test at the keyboard. What else do you guys want me to test???

Just kidding man, hope you guys will get yours soon!

 

i just recieved ,my laptop....its a beauty!!!

 

It is a beauty.

FYI, I chose the matte screen..and it is made by QDS. Very bright, and non-reflective. Me likes

 

She's a beauty! I got CMO, and it's pretty **** good (Phewww)...

And she looks even better in her docking station!

Now...more RAM.

Forgot my specs...

HP dv2000t - C2D T5600, 512 Mb (For now until my 2 GB NewEgg shipment), 60 Gb, nVidia Geforce 7200 Go, Webcam

 

Got mine today -- despite the ridiculous 5 day hold up in customs, they were still within the 5-7 day shipping that I was promised.

HP dv2000t - C2D T5600, 512 Mb (for 5 mins, until I put the 1GB sticks sitting in my drawer into it) , 80 Gb, nVidia GeForce Go 7200, 14.1", LightScribe, WebCam

 

I hate you all for being so happy with your new laptops with great bright screens.
I hate Samsumg (SEC).

 

Yeh! It finally arrived. No dead pixels and I guess I got the QDC because this sucker is bright. It's small and light and suits my proclivity towards all things black. My only complaint is that I didn't receive my remote...what software mods are you all going to install?

 

Go to Device Manager -> Monitors -> Plug and Play Monitors -> Right click Properties 0 -> Details tab -> Select Device Instance Id from the drop down list. Look to see what the three letters are after DISPLAY\. Mine is a CMO that i got today and it's pretty bright. I don't know how it compares in quality to the QDC.

 

I was perfectly happy with my BrightView screen and almost didn't look to see who made it because what did I care -- it looks good. I checked just so I could tell all you guys and it's a CMO.

 

awesome. pics by any chance? i'd love to see the matte screen a little better!

 

I was wrong, mine is SEC but I'm happy with it. They've already shipped my remote as well.

 

Received my unit around 9:30am today. I got a brightview CMO screen that seems much better than the SEC screen I saw in a store.

My specs:
Intel Core 2 Duo T7200
Nvidia Geforce Go 7200
2 GB RAM
120 GB Hard Drive
8x DVD+/- R/RW/RAM DL
Intel A/B/G Wireless + Bluetooth
Webcam
Windows XP MCE 2005 w/remote

You all know the rest.

First I created the obligatory restore DVDs, then removed all the HP bloatware, and finally ran a Windows update. 58 updates found!!! That is rediculous. Has HP not bothered adding any system updates since SP2 came out? As quickly as possible I moved on to the real fun... shrink the one large partition, create 2 new extended partitions, and install Vista RC1.

If you have a chance to try it, Vista RC1 (32-bit version) works great on the machine. (64-bit would likely work as well, but I wasn't sure which drivers would be included, and trying to install unapproved drivers in Vista x64 is an exercise in futility.) Aero Glass works great, but you'll need to get the latest modified Nvidia Vista drivers from www.laptopvideo2go.com first. Most other drivers install fine right off the Vista CD. The card reader drivers, updated drivers for the webcam, quickplay, etc. can all be installed from their location in C:\SwSetup.

Also, the beta 2 technical refresh of Office 2007 was made available this morning. I installed that on both partitions. I highly recommend it, especially if you are installing Vista.

Anyway, back to playing. Glad most people got their systems and are (reasonably) happy.

 

Jadedraverla, have fun, I just got home to mine that was received this afternoon. Tonight's gonna be a long night...

Cheers all!

 

Mine is CMO also! It's great!

 

It seems like the latest batch of lcds is made by CMO. I wonder how the CMO displays hold up to QDC? But I'm glad it's not SEC. I checked out a dv2000t at circuit city and the display was really bright, I figured it was a QDC, then I went over to check out the V3000t and it was really dim even at max brightness, so I guessed that was an SEC. My laptop will be arriving on the 20th and I hope to get a CMO or QDC.

 

This comment alone is making me consider this slightly smaller laptop than the dv6000t. Fark, decisions, decisions!

 

w00t! My dv2000t wasn't scheduled for delivery until Monday, but it's on a truck being delivered right now!! This is why I like FedEx so much better than UPS. they will deliver early if they get the package in time, whereas UPS will hold the package til the specified delivery date, even if they have it ready to deliver.

Now if I only I can get a good screen on mine...

 

i wish you luck. =]

 

Obviously, the larger screen and more powerful grpahics adaptor in the dv6000 series would be nice, but to have a fairly powerful Vista machine in a nice small package definitely has its benefits. I'm working on a full review of my setup, including pics and Vista info. Hopefully it'll be done this weekend.

 

Well, I'm sending my laptop back today. For a moment I thought that maybe I should just keep it and forget about the whole 'screen issue' but the more I read about it the more decided I'm to return it. Obviously there is a big quality difference between the SEC screens and the rest. And I know that first hand because the first laptop I had was QDS and that sucker was bright.
I'm a reordering another one on monday and hopefully I'll get something other than the SEC screen. In any case, I'll just keep whatever I get because I'm getting tired of this whole thing.

 

good luck dv2000t. i was already expecting an sec when mine came yesterday and was ready to return it and repurchase but i got a cmo and it looks pretty good so far. i wonder if anyone has succesfully requested a qds lcd and received one.

 

I'm curious about this as well. Thus far I've not heard of anyone successfully requesting a specific screen type. Guess I'll find out what I've got in about 3 hours when I get home from work.

 

I called HP yesterday and asked them about that and they say 'NO'. The can't guarantee which screen you will get. So I'm just going to reorder one and cross my fingers and pray that I won't get a SEC screen.

 

I figured as much. Well, at least a lot of these newer C2D machines are showing up with the CMO screens, which seem to be fairly comparable to the QDS or AUO units.

 

jadedraverla, exactly which version of the nVidia driver from laptopvideo2go did you install? Did you refresh your scores on the Performance page and what did it score? I tried with 96.33 and with the 84.64 XP driver that the machines ship with, and I get bluescreens. So I'm stuck with the Standard VGA Adapter driver for now, which is no fun.

 

I got mine today, finally. I got a QDS screen. How can I tell which hard drive I have?

 

Go back to Device Manager and look under Disk Drives.

 

look on your Device Manager > Disk Drives

ST - Seagate
WD - Western Digital

...

or open up your casing!

 

I ordered QDS for my DV6000t that will ship on 20th, God willing. I told the rep that if it's anything other than QDS I will return it, she said no problem. She added a note to my order of my request. I guess time will tell.

 

Got my dv2000t today. Came with the Quanta screen, and it's super bright and crisp. I'm quite excited right now. Good luck to any others of you who have yet to receive yours.

 

You get bluescreens with the 96.33 Vista driver under Vista? Are you running 32-bit or 64-bit Vista? That seems odd. The only thing I can suggest is that you make sure you have the right driver (32 or 64 bit) and try redownloading the updated inf file that correctly identifies the Go 7200 adaptor. One terrrible so-called feature of Vista is that it often doesn't actually overwrite files when you tell it to, so if you are attempting to do this from within Vista I would delete the inf file first and then downloading the modified one to the directory. Hope that helps.

For the record, I installed Vista RC1 build 5600 32-bit, and used the Nvidia 96.33 driver (for RC1) 32-bit version with the modified inf available from laptoplogic2go. Everything installed smoothly on my machine.

The performance page shows some fairly dismal results even after updating the driver. Though the processor and memory scored are very high, the graphics score is only 2.3 and the gaming graphics score is only 2.6. Still it works great with Aero Glass turned on, and I've been running several games within Vista and they all seem to be fine.

 

Just got mine today (yesterday, now). I have a QDS display and it's gorgeous. I'm very happy to not have to return it! Now, to get all this crap uninstalled...

 

It's called a bait and switch show one quality of monitor at a store and send another one.

Don't let them get away with this.... Call HP Support and tell them you are returning the laptop because of the SEC lcd screen.

That's like test driving a car with expensive tires and the ride is nice and smooth. When you get the car delivered they put in cheaper rougher tires.... They cant do that...

 

Yeah, it is really terrible that HP does this (just like Dell). They are cheating their customers. I'm just glad I lucked out...

I'm glad I found this board! The dv2000, when given its proper screen...is da bomb!!!

 

by "da bomb", do you mean it comes with an exploding battery?

 

jadedraverla,

Are you able to get QP running along side with Vista? Right now, I can't even playback video without QP freezing on me. Also, I tried to install HPQPDP, but it gave me an error. I left about 1.1 Gb of partition, and it still doesn't seem to go through. Any suggestions? Thanks!

Oh! One more thing. You have to install the drivers from the Audio folder to get the built-in microphone working. However, I feel that the microphone volume is lower in Vista than in Xp. Does anyone with Vista RC1 installed experience the same situation?

Ultimately, Vista runs very well on DV2000t (minus QP)

 

anyone know when the dv2000t with c2d will be available in canada?

 

No, I mean it is super fast, sturdy, and beautiful to look at!

 

LOL, NewHPUser, yeah I figured that's what you meant. Speaking of battery, DV2000t with C2D maxed out a little over 2 hours (Wireless on, and medium brightness).

I think that Vista Aero really sucks away some battery life at much faster rate. Thankfully, if you choose the right power profile, Vista will disable Aero in battery mode automatically, and re-enable whenever AC power takes over.

 

I'm assuming you are referring to the Quickplay boot partition, not the quickplay Windows program. Personally, I don't really care to use either, but the Windows program seems to install and run fine in Vista for me. The partition, however, does not. I believe that HP has the Quickplay partition setup in a way that it only works under VERY limited circumstances (must be the second partition, etc, and likely won't work with Vista's boot loader). I would assume once Vista is released HP will be releasing an updated version of Quickplay to work with Vista.

Yeah, Vista battery life, as of RC1, pretty well sucks. I also got a little over two hours, but that was with wireless on, surfing, downloading, and constantly copying files to the hard drive from DVDs. That was with the system set on balanced settings. As you said, there is also a max battery setting, that disables the desktop composition engine (and Aero Glass along with it) but it looks so bad I hate to use it. Hopefully HP will address this with more refined power settings once Vista is released.

 

I bought mine on 9/7 and i shipped 9/13, then:
Sep 16, 2006 6:27 AM
At dest sort facility
SAN ANTONIO, TX
Sep 15, 2006 7:27 PM
At local FedEx facility
SAN ANTONIO, TX
5:34 PM
At dest sort facility
SAN ANTONIO, TX
3:56 PM
Departed FedEx location
MEMPHIS, TN
11:56 AM
Arrived at FedEx location
MEMPHIS, TN
11:22 AM
Departed FedEx location
INDIANAPOLIS, IN
4:37 AM
In transit
INDIANAPOLIS, IN
2:10 AM
Int'l shipment release
INDIANAPOLIS, IN
12:10 AM
Arrived at FedEx location
INDIANAPOLIS, IN
Sep 14, 2006 2:11 PM
Departed FedEx location
ANCHORAGE, AK
11:35 AM
Arrived at FedEx location
ANCHORAGE, AK
Sep 13, 2006 1:18 PM
Left origin
KUNSHAN CN
1:11 PM
Picked up
KUNSHAN CN
I'm gonna go pick it up tomorrow after school! I ordered C2D 1.83, XP pro, 80G HD, 8x DVD+/- R/RW (dbl layer), 2GB RAM, brightview, nvidia 7200, Imprint+mic+webcam, intel wireless a/b/g + bluetooth, 6 cell battery. I paid $1331.43 for it. My first laptop and I think I did well (I was shooting for something under 15.4" and $1500 before tax). I've been lurking on this forum to get info before purchasing, I appreciate everybodys input.

 

For the QP Windows program, it doesn't run smoothly on Vista RC1 either. I mean it would run, but can't playback any DVDs..worse, when I try to close it, it stops responding...so pretty much, every time I run it, I get nothing but troubles under Vista.

So in my case, QP doesn't work as a Windows program..and it doesn't work as a boot partition either. Very crappy program indeed.

 

I wasn't initially too concerned about what screen I ended up with but now I am beyond pleased that I got the QDS. I am noticing colors, even on this forum screen, that I wasn't able to see on my old Toshiba. Some colors almost look TOO vibrant, LOL! I am liking my DV2000T alot! Now I just have to move all my "important" files over... although I sometimes wonder if I would miss anything from my old computer.

 

Fellow dv2000t/core 2 duo owners: HP has some promotions this week for free RAM upgrade, hard drive upgrade that make the pricing better than when we purchased; I just called HP and got $85 credited back as they have a 30 day low price guarantee! So essentially I got my extra 6 cell battery free!

 

I'll call them tonight! Does anyone happen to have a link to this low price guarantee of HP's?

EDIT: Also, does anyone remember what the upgrade price for 1GB of RAM and the 80GB HDD was when everyone ordered initially?

 

http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/s...vilion/dv2000_series&storeName=computer_store

Click 'customize' and look under the RAM and HDD.

 

I'm not seeing the guarantee anywhere on the customize page....