The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Have you new DV6 owners found you have no Portrait mode??

    Discussion in 'HP' started by dave1812, Jun 3, 2011.

  1. dave1812

    dave1812 Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    33
    Messages:
    720
    Likes Received:
    3
    Trophy Points:
    31
    I recently took delivery on a couple of DV6's; neither of which offers portrait mode--something I have never seen missing from a modern-day PC running Windows. What else is HP going to remove in the way of functionality? First they take away Portrait mode screen orientation, and now they take away our control of graphics switching. I'd rather have a simpler setup for graphics card, anyway--just give me the Radeon 6770m and forget that ridiculous Intel nonsense.
     
    dave1812, Jun 3, 2011
    #1
  2. scy1192

    scy1192 Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    13
    Messages:
    124
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    I don't understand what you mean by this. You can switch to the 6770M and uncheck the box to ask about switching when on battery.
     
    scy1192, Jun 3, 2011
    #2
  3. dave1812

    dave1812 Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    33
    Messages:
    720
    Likes Received:
    3
    Trophy Points:
    31
    i had to send a DV6 back for refund because switching DIDN'T WORK.
     
    dave1812, Jun 3, 2011
    #3
  4. Kahn20

    Kahn20 Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    2
    Messages:
    143
    Likes Received:
    3
    Trophy Points:
    31
    To be quite honest I completely forgot that you could run the OS in portrait mode, and my first version of Windows was 3.1! I think the reason our laptops' monitors don't support this feature is simply because they cannot rotate to accommodate the feature, like some desktop monitors can.

    Of course as a consumer it is your right to use your product as you wish, but I am a bit curious as to why you want to run portrait mode on these screens?

    It's a shame to hear you got a defective unit. Though I know this is probably little consolation, there's a chance that these issues with the dynamic switching will be worked out in a new HP driver update by the time your new unit is built.
     
    Kahn20, Jun 3, 2011
    #4
  5. obscurehero

    obscurehero Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    6
    Messages:
    316
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Why would you want portrait mode? Stand the laptop on it's side? This thing isn't a tablet you know...

    Honestly, why would you need this? Why would HP give this as an option? Seems weird
     
    obscurehero, Jun 3, 2011
    #5
  6. dave1812

    dave1812 Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    33
    Messages:
    720
    Likes Received:
    3
    Trophy Points:
    31
    I have my laptops hooked up to external monitors, both of which are mounted to wall mounts. One of them swivels so that I can set it to portrait mode. We have 2 netbooks, and 3 laptops in the house, including another HP and they all (like EVERY computer I've had for about the last 14 years) can switch orientation to portrait mode. These DV6's are the first computers I've encountered that can't do portrait and that is not a good thing.
     
    dave1812, Jun 4, 2011
    #6
  7. dave1812

    dave1812 Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    33
    Messages:
    720
    Likes Received:
    3
    Trophy Points:
    31
    oh for gawd's sakes, ever hear of an EXTERNAL MONITOR??
     
    dave1812, Jun 4, 2011
    #7