DV5000T is here Review to Follow in 2days or less

Well I am at work right now so I dont have a ton of time to do much.

Initial thoughts. Packing was light. It shipped in a single box. I am rather picky when I ship things that cost alot. However this notebook appears to be 100% working order! No dead pixels The matte screen looks really nice.

However someone at HP left finger prints/smuge on my LCD.

I will have some more good details soon

 

Are the viewing angles for the matte screen good enough? Since you indicated earlier you had notebooks with glossy screens before, how is the matte screen compare to them?

 

MHX, you've been with us for a while now--if I have to read one more dv5000z review and try to just focus on the style thoughts, i'm going to cry, and i bet you know what i mean.

and are you replacing the HD?

 

nope, just put in my 2GB of OCZ memory 533mhz

i may order a 80GB 7200RPM.. not sure yet.. Dont worry I will be working hard tonight to get this thing formated.. in fact I may do some benchmarks on the HP bloatware install compared to clean copy of XP just to see the difference.

 

So far keyboard and mouse feel really good compared to my last 2 laptops.
a dell 700m and a sony tx650.

gonna install some benchmark software gonna see what this thing can do out of the box.

 

what do you guys want me to run on this thing? 3dmark05? tell me what you want to see

 

CPUZ and Hd Tach. All testing was done with just opening the box and after getting all 28 windows updates. All HP bloatware and factory software running:

 

3dmark05 score: 1992 (ALL OUT OF BOX w/ HP bloatware)

 

Eh... and here I was thinking I shouldn't have gotten my dv4000! 2300 points in 3DMark05 for the win!!!

 

Calc PI @ 2M Calucations = 1m 17s

 

Like I said its a default HP install.. I have done Nothing but put 2GB of memory install windows updates and install the testing software!

Im not done yet just dont have time to reinstall since IM at work

 

3dMark03 = 4039 (ALL OUT OF BOX w/ HP bloatware)

 

PICS PICS PICS!

And all opinions welcome

 

when i get home!

 

^^How do you run the Super Pi test? I downloaded version but I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do with it.

 

And considering the 7400 is only 64-bit, 2000 isn't bad when the ATI is getting 2300 @ 128-bit.

 

im hoping to break into 2000 something after tweaks

 

pics: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=1315772#post1315772

 

Any updates on your new laptop? How do you like it so far?

 

Open the zipped folder, select file and then "extract all," to unzip the folder. Then run the Program. When it's open, select the "Calculate" tab and then pick how many digits of pi you want it to calculate.

 

i spent most of my night last night making a review... the site admin said my review would be posted soon

 

thanks mh, appreciate it, can't wait to read. mine has finally shipped.

 

the review is now posted here:

http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=2853

 

raw review i sent into the admin of this site to post an offical review is now posted in raw format:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=1318541&posted=1#post1318541