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    Hp Pavilion DV6171CL

    Discussion in 'HP' started by sheldon07, Mar 29, 2007.

  1. sheldon07

    sheldon07 Notebook Enthusiast

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    This has a AMD Turion 64 x 2 mobile processor tl-52 in it. along with 2048 mb ddrs memory. 120 gb (5400 rpm) hard drive, light scribe super mulit 8 x dvd cd recorder, windows xp media center, nvidia geforce 6150 graphics card with 128 mb shared... will use mainly for internet, some games, word processing and photos.... Is this a good deal ...is vista capable , but not installed... I hear there is still issues with this out there...is xp still better unit, I know this unit is older model, but is it worth $809.....

    Any words of advise would be helpful, the price just dropped $90 dollars today in store...
     
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    sheldon07 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Oh forgot too mention, this is a notebook model. And is brand new, not refurbished.
     
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    It's a good model and is well equipped for Vista. It won't be very good for serious gaming, that would require buying a configure-to-order notebook with the GeForce 7600 GPU from hp.com, but it'll do anything else. The price sounds about right. It's basically the same as the "new" models except that it has WinXP MCE installed with a free Vista upgrade available rather than Vista preinstalled with no WinXP license available.
     
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    I won't be doing alot of heavy gaming...mainly photos and music and web surfing... I am just not convinced on the vista programing yet. That is why the xp software is a + for me. and the ram will be vista ready i guess when I want to buy it or need vista. Anybody else have ideas on any of this before I make up my mine....Thanks in advance..
     
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