Hp Dv2

Hello,

I'm am deciding whether to buy this laptop for school use. It has a great size, stylish, and decent specs for a laptop that is so lightweight. The only turn off is that it was made for entertainment, but should this laptop do well for word processing, spreadsheets, and web surfing?

Thanks.

EDIT*

Would the 9 cell battery last for more than 5-6 hours? My budget is also under 700$ but it can stretch a little.

 

It can handle the tasks you listed fine. However, 5-6 hours of battery of life is unlikely even with the x1250 version.

 

Well how many hours can I get out of 6 cell batteries and 9 cell batteries? Because I can get the laptop for 500$ so I have money to get extra batteries.

Anyone know how many I should get?

 

Also, is this laptop noisy or does it overheat?

 

I heard the laptop gets quite hot (the air coming out of the air vents in particular). Battery life w/ 9 cell should be around 4 hours or so

 

Expect a full review in a few days, for now you can get some more information from NBR review and this http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=388893 thread.

 

I got my Dv2 a few months ago, so I have the old version. Most people would think that I would try selling it and upgrade to the newer version. The reason I'm not is because it fits my needs just fine as it is. The only problem I have with is the glossyness of it all. It is such a fingerprint magnet. But, I have not experienced any overheating that is abnormal. All laptops do heat up, and the dv2 is no exception. I can run photoshop, a few tabs on firefox, foobar2000 and any other random programs at the same time while it's on my lap. As far as its fan is concerned, it does get somewhat loud when I'm multitasking like I said. But, the battery life, even under the "power save mode" will not last 5-6 hours. I am a student, like you, and it suits my needs just fine. It being ultraportable is a huge + as is the 4 gigs of RAM.

 

I have the dv2 with 3410 GPU. Under full use, I'm lucky to get 2 hours 30 mins with the 6 cell battery. With wifi off and just reading documents, I guess three hours would be possible.

 

I've got a dv2 with the 3410 and the dual core neo, I get a little over 4 hours browsing the web, chatting, and reading/writing documents.

 

I've had a single core DV2 for 4 months. I highly recommend undervolting. Battery life is 4 hours with wifi on, and heat has gone down 10C.