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I'm planning on getting this laptop and it seems good value for money. Anyone have any gripes with this or hp on the whole? Its going to be my 1st laptop.

 

I recently purchased a 9035nr (Core 2 Duo 1.66, 2GB RAM, dual 80GB HDDs, 7600 256MB).

I really am pleased with the purchase. I've played a few games on it and it seems to do fine (I'm not a huge gamer). I also run a lot of audio and video apps (Photoshop, Premiere, Ableton Live) and they all run great.

I don't know what your exact specs are, but I assume they are pretty similar.

They do come with a lot of bloatware (Add/Remove Programs got rid of most of it) and the thing is huge (I think I could fit my girlfriend's Macbook inside of it). If you're not going to be toting it all over town, I'd say go for it.

 

I have one, just bought it Tuesday in fact. Posting on it as we speak.

May I ask, what are you planning on using it for? Are you a student and plan on lugging it around a lot?

Personally, from the few days I have it, I love it. It's fast, very responsive, and plays WoW and my other games perfectly. I love the widescreen abilities of it for that purpose.

Downsides? It's fairly big. It's a lot lighter than it looks, though, but it's still big. I'm a college student, and considering it was only a pound more than the other laptop I was considering (a Dell Inspiron E1505), I figured it would be alright. Bad thing? I had to get a new case because it's so big, and that's an expense I wasn't planning on. Which adds more weight because the new case. But I digress...

Also, it's a fingerprint MAGNET! I cannot for the life of me keep the lid from having fingerprints and smudges on it, but it's something I can live with since I don't see the lid often.

As far as performance, though, I only have two gripes: it takes a while for Vista to start up *and* shut down. I've been thinking it's because of the relative "newness" and less-optimized performance. Once it's loaded, it's lightning-quick. The other, is that for some odd reason it only shows I get 3 out of 5 signal strength bars with a wireless connection (any connection at that), no matter where I'm at in relation to the router (although I haven't tried to see if I could get *less* than 3 bars ). It still performs well, though, but it appears it's a bug in the signal display. Nothing huge IMO.

It's no question, though: for the price, it's performance is *really* worth it.