*HP dv6t & dv7t (70XX / 71XX series) IVY BRIDGE Owners Lounge*

Hmm, I may try that. Got any suggestions for a specific one?

 

hey i just recently realized ill be needing a larger battery. does anyone have advice as to a cheap 9 or 12 cell battery? the ones on hp are currently out of my price range.

thats lame. i got a 15% cupon just for buying a computer...

 

Hey everyone, I just put up a short review on my new dv6.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/hp-pavilion-notebooks/661908-short-review-dv6-ivy-bridge.html

 

Great review! I just checked my tracking number and its in Anchorage, AK right now..bring it to PDX already.

 

If they gave you a 15% coupon off by themselves talking to them over the phone should net you something more... hopefully. Worth trying, anyways.

I'm not the best person here to answer the question but it seems like Amazon.com: 6230 IEEE 802.11n (draft) Bluetooth 3.0 - Wi-Fi/Bluetooth Combo Adapter (Bulk): Cell Phones & Accessories would be a good choice.

 

Find out if you can get a "Bigfoot killer" it is my understanding that its the best wireless card money can buy.

 

Does anyone know if Hp went with a sata III 6Gb/s for both the primary and the optical drive interface on the new dv6t.. cross my fingers

 

Mine's sitting next to yours in Alaska. Time to jet those baby's to Memphis and get them to us!

 

The problem is that HP and Lenovo have a whitelist on wireless cards that severely limits on what you can install.

 

I don't know nearly as much about computers as you guys, but still, you should be able to at least buy the card offered by HP as an upgrade aftermarket. The Intel 6230?

 

Has anyone had success installing a Qualcomm bigfoot Killer card in a Dv6?

 

Even you buy the aftermarket card directly from HP, there still no guarantee that it even works. Even it was mentioned in the service manual and that was of very limited success.

 

Wouldn't that be sweet? I doubt the optical drive will support Santa 3 thought.

 

Or at least Rudolph 3...

 

I received two emails from HP about 2:44 PM EDT. One about the shipping delay, was expected to ship on the 9th, now expected to ship on the 11th. The other about a 15% discount on next purchase, expires 7/31.

I won't be in Georgia next week. So, I had them reroute the package to California. FedEx will hold it at a FedEx location near my California office for me.

HP was a LOT BETTER than most customer service departments I have dealt with.

 

Lmao auto correct, gonna leave it like that.

But the Dv6-npe (north pole edition) does support santa 3

 

checked out the canadian (crappy) version.

pros: Excellent screen (display angles), great speakers, faux brushed aluminum feel, little to no chassis flex, stayed cool and produced low fan noise on a non gaming setting.

cons: touchpad too close to left side (my wasd palm accidently brushes against it and moves mouse "BIG NONO"), touchpad buttons feel cheap (albeit better than most hps).

other than that this is a fantastic laptop...too bad the canadian version only has 1333x768 and 630m

 

So...I've done a little more playing and this laptop has, hands down, the worst sound I have ever heard on any laptop ever. (Headphone-wise).

But I'm thinking there may be a way to fix it, I Just don't know since I don't have much knowledge of HPs and the whole Beats Audio thing.

Here's the issue: there's some horrible volume-leveling thing going on. When a song has a quiet part, suddenly the volume goes way up and whatever static is on the track (I listen to classical, so lots of hidden static) is multiplied 100x and when the song gets louder, the volume goes down and completely muffles all the loud parts. Enabling/disabling Beats audio does nothing, so it's something else.

So...what do I do? This is absolutely awful...and if I can't fix this, I'm returning this computer right away.

 

So nobody actually minds that there's speakers on the lid? :s

On the next gen, hp should put speakers on the bottom to make you little boys upset. ;p

 

If mine turns out this way I won't be keeping it! If it ever comes that is... ordered on the 1st and still hasn't shipped

 

I remember on the previous dv6, under the Playback Devices --> Speakers, there was a tab called "Enhancements" and one of the enhancements was "loudness equalization". On this computer, there's no such tab and there doesn't seem to be any way to change it. Maybe it's because it's the QuickShip model?

I really have no idea. All I know is I can't stand it and am probably going to return it

When you do get it, if you could tell me if you have the same issue, that would be great, because I want to make sure I'm not imagining things

 

Did you really buy the thing for its audio quality? Seriously?

 

Excuse me if wanting music to sound good on a laptop is asking for too much. It's a significant drop in quality going from listening to music through the headphones on my Mac to listening to music through the headphones on the HP. It should sound IDENTICAL, like it does on my friend's Dell or my old Toshiba.

 

Have you tried changing/upgrading/downgrading the drivers for the audio hardware? Most OEM manufacturers use Realtek for their audio chipset and there are "vanilla" drivers available on Realtek's site. I usually end up using those when installing drivers because they're more up to date and don't have all those fancy OEM customization. I'm not sure what chipset the "Beats Audio" stuff uses but I'm willing to bet it's basically just a Realtek with some enhancements. Using the vanilla drivers may remove some of those annoying enhancements that are ruining your audio experience.

However, there should be a way to turn them off within some control panel.

 

It uses something called "IDT High Definition Audio CODEC". I noticed that most other OEMs use Realtek, but HP is different (which might explain this problem).

So I'm guessing that means it wouldn't work with a generic Realtek driver?

 

That's correct. It seems that IDT doesn't provide their own vanilla drivers:

Audio Products | IDT

I was incorrect in assuming they used Realtek. I would scour through your control panels related to audio and Beats and try to find a way to turn that shizz off.

 

Since it's obviously a software problem you can just wait until more people get them and the fix is posted online.

Totally understand you wanting to return it, though.

 

Try this link:

Beats Audio EQ Setting/ General Sound Advice - HP Support Forum

 

I assume you already dig some extensive digging, so at the risk of sounding like an idiot I offer this simple advice.

I had been perusing the user guide online (mainly just to check out speaker and port placement) and recalled seeing some info about beats audio in there. You might check out your own manual for details. Anyway, it describes how you should be able to instantly toggle beats on and off with function key and b (fn+b). That would be my first suggestion, assuming you didn't already know about it.

Who knows? Maybe this quick fix will solve your equalization issues.

 

I'm afraid the problem is with the IDT audio driver itself and not Beats.

 

Yeah dude what were you thinking? Who buys a BEATS AUDIO laptop with a SUBWOOFER for sound quality?

 

Do you have this same Beats Audio control panel that was in the old dv6? If you do, you could try unchecking Beats Audio there.
And I do agree that Beats Audio is pretty much a gimmick. They could invest the money spent licensing the logo into better build quality or something..

Edit: Picture of what I'm talking about.

 

If you ever owned a dv7 you would understand that beats is not a gimmick. The headphone audio is also very impressive.

 

It's just a equalizer preset meant to work best with Beats Headphones/earbuds. Nothing that you can't do yourself with an equalizer in a music player.

 

Its 4 speakers and a subwoofer. I'm not talking about the tray menu.

 

I don't think he's talking about audio quality, more like audio degradation.

 

Yup, this is indeed true, the audio hardware is fantastic, the audio driver for it is junk.

The Beats Audio pretty much resets your tone whenever the OS boots up and provides pretty bad sound, here's a forum post where I had the exact same problem but with the older SB DV6t:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/hp-...9415-hp-dv6t-tone-controls-reset-startup.html

Try what I did and see if it works, also, try asking the SB DV6t owners thread to see if they can link you to the original driver that comes with that laptop (under the SWsetup folder>Drivers>Audio). The only reason I say this is because I tried every driver out there, included some modded ones on the net, that unfortunately didn't seem to fix the issue as I state on the thread. The original provided one worked but only after some hacking around.

 

Hard to believe only one person following this thread had their dv6 7000 delivered and can give some actual use feedback. With that feedback even more questions about heat/fan, screen quality and audio quality. I hope more owners decide to drop in and comment.

 

I'm trying to find out about battery life myself.

 

Ordered on the 2nd and got shipping notice this morning! I am excited . To early still to see anything on the tracking though. My config incase someone that is waiting might figure a difference out and what might be holding their shipping up.

dv6t Quad Ed
• Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
• 3rd generation Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3610QM Processor (2.3 GHz, 6MB L3 Cache)
• NVIDIA(R) GeForce(R) GT 650M Graphics with 1GB GDDR5 memory [HDMI, VGA]
• FREE Upgrade to 8GB DDR3 System Memory (2 Dimm)
• 750GB 7200 rpm Hybrid Hard Drive with HP ProtectSmart Hard Drive Protection
• NO mSSD Hard Drive Acceleration Cache
• Microsoft(R) Office Starter: reduced-functionality Word/Excel(R) only, No PowerPoint(R)/Outlook(R)
• No additional security software
• 6 Cell Lithium Ion Battery - Up to 6.0 hours of battery life +++
• 15.6-inch diagonal Full HD Anti-glare LED-backlit Display (1920 x 1080)
• FREE Upgrade to Blu-ray player & SuperMulti DVD burner
• HP TrueVision HD Webcam
• 802.11b/g/n WLAN
• Backlit Keyboard

 

Ordered my dv7 on May 4. Shipped May 10 and expected on the 16.
I have a new vertex4 for it so I will post bootup times b4 and after swap. I am wondering if adding 1866mhz memory makes noticeable difference or just cause heat problems.

dv7t Quad Ed
• Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
• 3rd generation Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3610QM Processor (2.3 GHz, 6MB L3 Cache)
• NVIDIA(R) GeForce(R) GT 650M Graphics with 2GB GDDR5 memory [HDMI, VGA]
• FREE UPGRADE to 8GB DDR3 System Memory (2 Dimm)
• 750GB 7200 rpm Hard Drive with HP ProtectSmart Hard Drive Protection
• 32GB mSSD Hard Drive Acceleration Cache
• Microsoft(R) Office Starter: reduced-functionality Word/Excel(R) only, No PowerPoint(R)/Outlook(R)
• No additional security software
• 6 Cell Lithium Ion Battery - Up to 5.75 hours of battery life +++
• 17.3-inch diagonal Full HD Anti-glare LED-backlit Display (1920 x 1080)
• FREE Upgrade to Blu-ray player & SuperMulti DVD burner
• HP TrueVision HD Webcam
• Intel 802.11b/g/n WLAN and Bluetooth(R)
• Backlit Keyboard
• Included 2 Year Warranty
• HP Home & Home Office Store in-box envelope

 

i guess some people say that mssd cause bottleneck with normal ssd's (for mssd's slow read/write speeds)
am i wrong?

 

Most of the comments regarding speed of the mSSD are speculation until we get one to benchmark. I think the idea is that the mSSD isn't any faster than a good SSD, so adding an mSSD between the processor and the SSD is just more overhead without any benefit. More overhead = slower.

 

Microssd and SSD are mutually exclusive. The whole idea behind a mssd is that it allows a traditional harddrive the cache speed of an ssd with the economy of a SATA harddrive.

Using a mssd with an ssd would actually slow the system down because the ssd does not need a cache drive for speed. It already is fast.

 

Hoping that I can use the mSSD with original HDD in bay 2 as cache. If I could maybe have it as a 3rd drive for tmp folders, abuse it a bit more with .nbz and file extractions. I added it on impulse, looking at msata 32gb ssd prices they are around $50.

 

almost certainly neither. Once you take the HD out of the equation, your internet link is surely the weakest link...

 

Has anyone received a dv7 and put in a second HD or SSD? Is the bay you need the same as the previous generation of dv7?

 

new review of the dv6t on youtube:
Hp pavilion dv6 i7 quad addition review - YouTube

 

HP revamped their website, and now only 1TB 5400 rpm and 160GB SSD are available for hard drive. If HP does not give back other options, perhaps this is the time for me to buy a real SSD from third party

 

But they dropped the price for the 650M upgrade.