How Long has your HP Laptop Lasted?

How long has your HP laptop lasted before dying?

 

Where's the entry for "I haven't had an HP die on me yet?"

 

I own 4 HP notebooks, my oldest is from 2005 a dv8200. Still a kickass lappy. Upgraded from a core duo to a core 2 duo with 4GB of RAM running Vista ultimate and the geforce 7600 is fine even though this is definitely one of the units prone to death by heat. I played several hours of WoW on it every day for 2 years solid. It now has a pair of WD 500GB Scorpio blue drives in it. It sits on top of a VHS deck and slowly but surely I am using it to transfer all of my VHS tapes to DVD.

 

lol, wouldn't that be in the 5+ years?

 

LOL, not really. What if you had it for 1,2,3 years and it hasn't died yet?

 

My DV5 just passed 1 year and is going strong. I also have an HP from 1999 that still works fine. Slow...but fine. It's a nice laptop to use it bed to check e-mail, since it has no fan for the processor and the only noise is the hard drive.

 

Yeah, I've had one for a month and it hasn't died yet.

I sold the zd7000 I had after 3 years and that hadn't died....heard it's still running too.

 

mine has lasted just over a year and is still kicking!

 

Laptops can last long depending on how much abuse it can take. My Compaq R3340 which I purchased in 2004, still works albeit its a desktop rather than a laptop given the series suffered with the power cord issue. At work we also still use a Gateway Solo(2000) with Windows 98se(connected to legacy hardware). So, unless they suffer from a design defect or are carried around a lot, can last for quite a long time. On the other hand my Compaq V3000Z kicked the bucket early as did the tx2500 (still works but its my fault than HP's)

 

Sorry to hear about your Tx2500. You were a big help to me and my TX2500 which is still going strong. Thinking about getting the new TM2T.

 

My dad has a zv5380 Pavillion, and it still works, just needs a new battery I think. Windows isn't stable on it, but I think it's the drivers for the AMD Athlon 64 in it, it keeps locking up, unless it's the ram going bad or something, but it works 95% of the time. Got it in '04. My current lappy got in Dec 08, so just over a year, and it's working great.

 

My dm3 has lasted 3 years 1 month. Don't know how much longer after that it will last, because I'm trading it in for $125 when I get the dm3.

The 47Whr 6 cell battery that came with the dv6000 didn't last long at all. The day I got it, it lasted just a little short of 3 hours. A year later, it went down to about 2 hours; 2 years later, 1 hour and just 6 months ago, 20 minutes (at something like 87%-90% wear). Barely usable.

The 95WHr 12 cell one I got later is definitely good stuff. The last I checked it was about 5% wear, but I hardly discharge and recharge it because it lasts pretty long (6 hours or so). It's just heavy and adds to the thickness of the laptop.

 

my compaq m2000 is still kicking it except for a dead DVD drive

 

I want to buy an HP DM3 that I saw on Sam's club store, but I hesitate, coz I really really want to know the quality of that notebook, I want notebook that will last for about 5 years + (ofcourse I will not drop it and bump it).

i think I'm going to switch to Toshiba Satellite T135-S1300 that I saw on sam's club store

what can you say guys?

 

I have 4 HP laptops, all of them still working fine.
The one in my sig had problem with Nvidia, but working again after reflow process, in overall, I vote for 5+ years

 

Batteries are a whole separate thing: most people know that the expected longevity of a notebook battery is 2 years, 3 years max if it's taken care of REALLY well. Batteries are a wear item and just won't last very long beyond that, because of the lithium ion technology.

My 3 year old compal's 3 year old extended battery is giving me 45 minutes, and I'm dancing in the streets.

 

18 months now with my dv7t and im loving it more and more each day.

havent had any issues at all. i went from dual 320gb drives to dual 500gb drives. this thing is a beast.

in the past, you would buy a laptop knowing that it's performance was ony the fraction of a desktop... now, laptops are just as fast if not faster than desktops. i got my dv7t with the fastest processor available at the time and vista ran amazingly on it. now im running win 7 ultimate 64 bit just as flawlessly.

i dont think im going back to desktops anytime soon... i have this thing on my desk almost 100% of the time but when i study, i throw it into a drawer and i have a nice clean and spacious desk to study on.

 

they said that HP has a faulty nvidea graphics card, maybe thats the reason why some other user have trouble in the display

http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/sony-finally-admits-nvidia-chips-are-borking-its-laptops-offers/

i hope that HP DM3 is not affected by this issue

 

I got my Pavilion dv5t in Jul '08, so about a year and a half. No issues to date.

 

guys, I have a good link of laptop lifespan info.t

check this out

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080706072836AAABmCs

what can you say ?

 

Bad materials were used in 7x00 and 8x00 series mobile chips and motherboard chipsets of same era (and some desktop parts too). Your laptops is 3-4 years newer model than those, I think they have run out of bad materials already and are now using good ones

 

2.5 years, working every day, gaming for the first year.
I will likely get the new elite 15 inch later this year when I have depreciated this 8510w

 

5 years on my ZV6000. Looks & works like the day I got it except for the upgraded processor and RAM.

Still have a Compaq 1200US running from pre 9-11 as I will never forget watching to twin towers fall with my external USB tv tuner at college.

 

lol. almost 2 years now. This old thing's a beast. It has the x3100 but it plays needforspeed underground/2/mostwanted with decent fps; plus battle realms. lmao

 

My HP Compaq nw8440 is 3.5 years and still going strong!! The only thing that went wrong with it that wasn't my fault was the CD drive and 5-6 power adapters.

I did have the keyboard and the motherboard replaced because of my over-curiousness..

(Keyboard: Took it off, pointstick and touchpad died. New keyboard fixed it. Motherboard: Took out CD-rom drive, replaced it, CD-rom drive only works in PIO mode. Clean connector, CD drive *sometimes* workes in DMA mode. I still swear it was just a dirty connector, and not a bad DMA controller like the help desk at school said. At least they were nice enough to replace the entire bottom casing in the process )

 

1 year then my hard drive gave out, but i fixed it so were all good, and its still running beautiful :d

 

2 years before it died and got resurected by me (see my sig).

 

I've had my Compaq N600C for 8 1/2 years! Still going fine and has the nice high resolution 1400x1050 screen that turned heads back in 2001.

 

Lets update this poll shall we.

 

I had three hps once, one died from trojan viruses and other stuff. The second one just got slow, the dv1000! Best hp i have ever owned!, then the so so hp dv66nr66 something like that, it was a decent machine, i used to play call of duty 4 on there with like 10-15 fps per second and i beat the game! The samething with world in conflict man it was awesome for back then lol. But what happened to that one was the screen kept dying and loosing its brightness etc.,. so sad. But then my sister had to spill water on it and it died, payed 900 bucks for it and only got a 100!! lol

 

How can it die from trojan viruses?

 

It had over 250+ from Limewire, well i think the hard drive just died and they gave me the dv1000, it was from PC richard and son.

 

dv6563cl and it is still kicking after 3 years. I have yet to had both the infamous 8400M GS burn out, unresponsive Wi-Fi or any other severe failure problems *knock on wood*.

 

Umm, I don't think a notebook getting trojans can be classified as it dying.

And a notebook that got slow, is considered a dead notebook?

Reformat applies for both of those...

And sorry I'm in the wrong subforum.

 

I had the ZT3000 and it lasted from July 2004 until March 2010

 

I HATE Nvidia.

I loved my DV2500...but my Nvidia chip killed itself.

My DV2315nr with the 6150 killed itself before that.

My original DV2xxx died because of Nvidia. The replacement HP sent me then died too because of Nvidia.

I hope they go bankrupt. If I ever run into Shang Tsung or whatever, the CEO of Nvidia, I will literally drop kick him in the testicles.

HP builds good quality stuff...probably some of the best out there.

But man, when it came to the 8400 BS...they screwed all of us over. Instead of recalling all of them and extending the warranty for everyone, they picked about two models out of 400. It doesn't matter if you HDD is 160gb or 250gb you omgifisayitiwillgetbanned, all that matters is the bloody GPU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And that thing is a ticking time bomb just waiting for the warranty to expire. It's like it knows, man. If you have a one year warranty, it will die 2 months afterwards. If you got an extended warranty, it will die accordingly.

Seems like most of HPs laptops now include ATI gpus....so I'm happy in that regard. HP probably knows it screwed it's customers over....and they're getting Nvidia back a tad for us. Wishful thinking, but whatever. As long as I see ATI gpus...I'm happy. I hope Fermi crashes and burns their building to the ground. And when they're bloody insolvent and they call their insurance company...they tell them, "sorry, u had the 160gb HDD wallpaper in ur bathroom, the extended warranty only covers teh 159.5gb hdd wallpaper in the bathroom, not the 160gb." ....u get my point and the connection i'm tring to make.

Die Fermie. Die.
Building GPUs this big is "really fn hard?" Well, I hope you and and Shang Tsung both get drop kicked in the testicles and Fermi crashes on both of your heads...and whoevers head it is that instituted that extremely limited 8400m recall so that it basically covered 2 human beings instead of a complete one and covering the 90 million humans that got screwed over by Nvidia not knowing how to make proper solder points.

Alas, I digress. My apologies.
I've had three HP systems so far. My first one lived for three months while the second for 14, both had Nvidia GPUs.
My current HP, an aging "Compaq/HP nx7010" business model with an ATI gpu....5 years? 7 years? When was the Pentium M first released? Ya...since then.

 

I had 2 HP laptops before

DV6408nr: Lasted for only 10 months Motherboard died because of the NVIDIA problems GPU: Geforce go 6150

DV5z: Currently 1 year and 9 months still working but constantly runs hot and fans are very loud. GPU: HD3450. Currently being used as a backup/family computer just in case something happens to my Toshiba laptop