*HP dv6t & dv7t Select Edition / Quad Edition (6XXX series) Owners Lounge*

I'm brand new to the sight, but I just bought a DV6T with the i7-2630QM, 6770M, 8GB DDR3, 640GB 7200RPM, and Intel 802.11b/g/n WLAN and Bluetooth options. I got it for 850$ before tax. Estimated build date of April 28. Can't wait to write a review, and thanks to everyone who posted reviews. They were a big help.

 

Welcome to the fray! We're all so excited!

 

I'm going to place my DV7 order tonight. Hopefully that 4/28 date is based on their conservative estimates on when they will get parts and it moves up as the month of April creeps along.

 

A note on my drive hardware kit that was 'shipped' on Tuesday.

According to Fedex, the status is "HP told us a package exists, but we haven't seen it yet".

 

I'd be happy if I got mine by April 20th.

I'd be surprised if I got mine before May 10th.

 

oops, double post

 

Haha... i'll be ecstatic if mine ships on the 15th -.-

 

I'm with you on that! They quoted me a April 25th date which is absurd considering it's taking me over a month to get a laptop from them. But if I WAS to get it before that date I would be ecstatic!

But I'm not holding my breath... I just want it before my birthday, May 12th. They're not in anyway related (the buying of the laptop and my birthday) but it seems like a nice benchmark date lol.

 

I'm lucky since I can wait for my laptop, I just wanted something better than what I have for law school in August. Maybe I should have just waited, but I feel pretty confident that this machine will last me the next 3 years. I am also going to steal your sig, thanks in advance.

 

Yea, you are lucky. I've been getting by on my work computer, which is one sick Mac, I love it to death, I would put it in my purse and bring it home with me if I could. But since I do a lot of traveling and design for a living I'd love to be able to work overtime from home or while I'm on the road on a nice laptop! (And I wouldn't mind being able to take advantage of my RIFT subscription and actually play...) Haha, granted, NOT being able to really work from home gives me a sweet reason to just play Black Ops all night lmfao.

And you're welcome to bum the sig =) I've always been good at sharing!

 

so when i order my dv7 it said free 2 year warranty but when i got my laptop i check all inside the box to see where was the 2 year warranty but i dont have anything like a paper or anything so how can i know if i did got the 2 year?

 

HP tricked you, you don't actually get a warranty at all!

 

If you open the HP Support Assistant program on your computer, you can check for the warranty status and it'll show it right on there.

 

The warranty start date is also in the BIOS. I saw it there the other day. Thought that was kind of weird.

 

Thank you found it HP did gave me the 2 year

 

Ordered a dv6t QE on the 21st. Got the delay email yesterday. I got 15% off this order after calling. I used the 30% coupon, ebates, threat to cancel the order, and the delay to get down to $705 Shipped.


HP Pavilion dv6t Quad Edition customizable Notebook PC
• Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
• 2nd generation Intel(R) Quad Core(TM) i7-2720QM (2.2 GHz, 6MB L3 Cache) w/Turbo Boost up to 3.3 GHz
• 1GB Radeon(TM) HD 6770M GDDR5 Graphics [HDMI, VGA]
• FREE Upgrade to 6GB DDR3 System Memory (2 Dimm)
• FREE Upgrade to 750GB 5400RPM Hard Drive with HP ProtectSmart Hard Drive Protection
• No Additional Office Software
• FREE Upgrade to Norton Internet Security(TM) 2011 - 15 Month Subscription (activation required)
• 6-Cell Lithium-Ion Battery (standard) - Up to 5.5 hours of battery life +++
• 15.6" diagonal High Definition HP BrightView LED Display (1366x768)
• SuperMulti 8X DVD+/-R/RW with Double Layer Support
• HP TrueVision HD Webcam with Integrated Digital Microphone and HP SimplePass Fingerprint Reader
• Intel 802.11b/g/n WLAN
• Standard Keyboard
• HP Home & Home Office Store in-box envelope
Estimated build date: April 5, 2011

Delayed to the 12th.

 

lol nice, that's highway robbery. I'm pretty sure thats the best price anyone has gotten.

 

anyone find coolsense?
it's not in SwSetup

btw, got my DV7 today!
(did a clean install)

 

They may be shipping them out again. I hope they don't delay mine which was supposed to ship today, but I wouldn't mind getting 10% back for waiting for another couple of weeks.

 

I may have him beat:

HP Pavilion dv6t Quad Edition customizable Notebook PC

•Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
•2nd generation Intel(R) Quad Core(TM) i7-2630QM (2.0 GHz, 6MB L3 Cache) w/Turbo Boost up to 2.9 GHz
•1GB Radeon(TM) HD 6770M GDDR5 Graphics [HDMI, VGA]
• 8GB DDR3 System Memory (2 Dimm)
•640GB 7200RPM Hard Drive with HP ProtectSmart Hard Drive Protection
•No Additional Office Software
•FREE Upgrade to Norton Internet Security(TM) 2011 - 15 Month Subscription (activation required)
• 50% OFF!! One 6-Cell and One 9-Cell Lithium-Ion Battery
•15.6" diagonal High Definition HP BrightView LED Display (1366x768)
• Blu-ray writer & SuperMulti DVD burner
•HP TrueVision HD Webcam with Integrated Digital Microphone and HP SimplePass Fingerprint Reader
•Intel 802.11b/g/n WLAN
•Standard Keyboard
•HP Home & Home Office Store in-box envelope

And two day shipping (not that it means much)

All for $800 shipped.

 

Nope, I just did a clean install and I kind of wish I had coolsense, or at least the option of having it.

If anyone has an install link or location let me know

Thanks

 

How about this?

dv6t Quad Ed
• Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
• 2nd generation Intel(R) Quad Core(TM) i7-2630QM (2.0 GHz, 6MB L3 Cache) w/Turbo Boost up to 2.9 GHz
• 1GB GDDR5 Radeon(TM) HD 6770M Graphics [HDMI, VGA]
• FREE Upgrade to 8GB DDR3 System Memory (2 Dimm)
• 160GB (Solid State Drive Flash Module)• No Additional Office Software
• FREE Upgrade to Norton Internet Security(TM) 2011 - 15 Month Subscription (activation required)
• 50% OFF!! One 6-Cell and One 9-Cell Lithium-Ion Battery• 15.6" diagonal High Definition HP BrightView LED Display (1366x768)
• SuperMulti 8X DVD+/-R/RW with Double Layer Support
• HP TrueVision HD Webcam with Integrated Digital Microphone and HP SimplePass Fingerprint Reader
• Intel 802.11b/g/n WLAN
• Standard Keyboard
• HP Home & Home Office Store in-box envelope

Two day shipping, all for $1050 flat

 

dv6t Quad Ed
• Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
• 2nd generation Intel(R) Quad Core(TM) i7-2720QM (2.2 GHz, 6MB L3 Cache) w/Turbo Boost up to 3.3 GHz
• 1GB GDDR5 Radeon(TM) HD 6770M Graphics [HDMI, VGA]
• FREE Upgrade to 8GB DDR3 System Memory (2 Dimm)
• 640GB 7200RPM Hard Drive with HP ProtectSmart Hard Drive Protection
• No Additional Office Software
• FREE Upgrade to Norton Internet Security(TM) 2011 - 15 Month Subscription (activation required)
• High Capacity 6-Cell Lithium-Ion Battery (standard) - Up to 5.75 hours of battery life +++
• 15.6" diagonal High Definition HP BrightView LED Display (1366x768)
• Blu-ray player & SuperMulti DVD burner
• HP TrueVision HD Webcam with Integrated Digital Microphone and HP SimplePass Fingerprint Reader
• Intel 802.11b/g/n WLAN
• Standard Keyboard
• HP Home & Home Office Store in-box envelope
+
2-yr Pick Up+Return HP Pavilion Laptop Service
+
HP Notebook Sleeve (Premium 16")

for $918.77

 

Start Menu
Control Panel
Power Options
Change Plan Settings
Change Advanced Power Settings

Dig through the menus

 

Hah, looks like all of you got pretty sweet deals. I haven't been able to wrangle anything out of them. :-/

 

Their process was the 2720, about $150 more, which is about the cost of your upgrades, but they got it for $700, not $800

 

Yeah, the processor is an unruly 150. Overall even if its not the 'best' deal its better than I could have hoped, considering the purchase price was 1,324!

 

I'm kinda kicking myself for not getting a SSD with these massive % off coupons/delay discounts. But I just won a fantasy basketball pot of around 300 bucks so maybe i can put that towards a 256gig SSD... or maybe waiting a year to upgrade once the prices come down some more... what do you guys think?

 

Anyone looked at replacing the dv7 lcd with 1080p panel?

 

I can't stand the new simplepass fingerprint reading software. Gives annoying popups all the time. The old one was more subtle. Anyone else having these issues?
Like whenever I log out I get a popout asking me to swipe for a password and I have X out of this popup to continue. Obviously if I'm logging out of a website I do not want to swipe my finger...

 

Lol, guess I got owned.

 

HP Pavilion dv6t Quad Edition customizable Notebook PC
• Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
• 2nd generation Intel(R) Quad Core(TM) i7-2820QM (2.3 GHz, 8MB L3 Cache) w/Turbo Boost up to 3.4 GHz
• 1GB Radeon(TM) HD 6770M GDDR5 Graphics [HDMI, VGA]
• 8GB DDR3 System Memory (2 Dimm)
• 160GB (Solid State Drive Flash Module)
• No Additional Office Software
• FREE Upgrade to Norton Internet Security(TM) 2011 - 15 Month Subscription (activation required)
• 6-Cell Lithium-Ion Battery (standard) - Up to 5.5 hours of battery life +++
• 15.6" diagonal High Definition HP BrightView LED Display (1366x768)
• SuperMulti 8X DVD+/-R/RW with Double Layer Support
• HP TrueVision HD Webcam with Integrated Digital Microphone and HP SimplePass Fingerprint Reader
• Intel 802.11b/g/n WLAN and Bluetooth(R)
• Standard Keyboard
• HP Home & Home Office Store in-box envelope


$805.99 shipped after ebates, 30% coupon, 15% coupon for delay, and $500 cash back for that time my HP Envy 14 was cancelled due to lack of radiance display.

 

haha regardless we're all getting great deals

 

you sir, are winning

 

I suggest getting a 120gb SSD for ~$170 and using a optical drive caddy for a storage HDD. 256gb ssds are waaaay overpriced unless you settle with old ssd tech.

 

Once you go SSD, you never want to go back.

If you got a dv7t, then heck yeah get an SSD. Intel just released their 3rd gen SSDs - 320 and 520 series. The 2nd gen X25 is still pretty solid too. I've also been hearing a lot about the Vertex

If you got the dv6t, be sure that 256gb will be enough for your storage needs (dv7t has 2 hard drive slots). If not, you could try a hybrid drive. Speed and price wise, the Hybrid drives sit between a traditional HDD and SSD

 

jeez.. nice deal..

 

Me, but with my dv6t. how do you go about doing this?

 

I found the cool sense software after a clean install. You have to install the HP support assistant (Which was on HP.com in the drivers, prob in the SW folder too) then click on troubleshoot>>Power, Thermal and Mechanical>>Thermal tab>>HP coolsense. Seems like alot of work, but I only wanted to change it once so that when the computer is moving or mobile it would be on the coolest setting.

 

I don't have a dv7 yet but someone will need to find out the panel used in these notebooks. Then we should be able to find an alternative.

Here's an example: http://forum.notebookreview.com/del...cial-swapping-xps-17-l701x-screen-thread.html

 

Oops, spoke too soon.
The drive hardware kits for dv7t do exist, FedEx picked up two of them in Houston today and they will be in my hands on the 12th.

 

so for anyone who disassembled their laptops: can we get a model or serial number?

 

Someone else just mentioned the idea of turning the DVD drive into another hard drive. I wasn't even aware this was an option, and as I almost never use my DVD drive, I'll most likely be doing this so that I can add an SSD to the computer. I found this.
2nd Drive Caddy for HP dv5, dv6 Series (add 2nd HDD or SSD) [OBHD-SATA12-SATA-BU] - $44.75 : NewmodeUS, Hard Drive Caddys for Notebooks

Can anyone tell me if this is a good/bad one or if they are cheaper somewhere else?

Should I put the SSD in the DVD bay or where the HDD is already installed, for heat purposes or other advantages.

Thanks for your help!!!

 

1. If you have a dv7, just get the factory drive hardware kit and put both drives in the hard drive bays.

2. if your SSD is SATA III, you will want it in the hard drive bay for best performance. The factory hard drive is SATA II, so it won't lose any performance if you put hook it up to the DVD SATA II port.

 

He must have a dv6 based on his link. And whoa I've never seen a caddy / dock like that before.

I would put the SSD in the normal HDD slot and move your original HDD to where the DVD is. No real factual reason for that, but it just seems more right.

 

So I'm gonna be getting a dv6 and am really interested in this dvd caddy... will that one work or has the fit changed with the 6000 series? Anyone have a link to an informative thread/site or have any useful info for this?

 

Nice. I haven't had time to call the parts department during the day yet. As long as it ships by the 11th it should be fine, since the laptop won't ship till then either.

 

Email the website

or

Compare the manual for the newest dv6t (link should be in original post) vs the manual for whatever dv6t the website part is for. Check the HP part numbers and see if they match.

 

ya i didnt' realize there was an option to put a hdd in the dvd slot with a kit. I have a dv6 and im coming off of having a tablet for the last year and barely ever used the dvd drive, I have an external anyways. I wanted dual hdd's but didn't want the dv7 size. I'm surprised I haven't seen anyone talk about these in any of the forums so far? I think its great! is 60gb enough or should I go 80?

and any opinions on Intel's x25-m vs a vertex 2 at about the same prices and as a boot drive?

 

How do you like the screen so far in term of color and contrast? I was at looking at the one in Costco (DV6-6xxxx) and did not like color. Can you adjust the color, contrast, ...etc?