My first laptop ever: HP-DV7

I just picked it up at Best Buy today. Paid $1400+taxes for it. It's the dv7-1038. P7350, 4gb ram, 9600 gt card. No tv tuner or fingerprint reader. I was pretty surprised and disappointed about that, but I'll get over it.

Setup took me a couple of hours. Just pretty much booting it up and making the recovery discs. I'm just playing around with it right now. And seeing as this is my first laptop and have only used desktops before, I'm still trying to get accustomed to the keyboard and touchpad.

Right now, I'm loving this. Question though, how do I open that slot to put my remote control in?

 

Congratulations on the laptop! Should be a nice system. As far as the pc express card slot is concerned, it is spring assisted...just push the cover in and it should pop out by itself.

 

I remember those days. The excitement of opening the box and being able to take the PC everywhere with me was exhilarating.

WELCOME TO THE CLUB!

 

thanks. good to be a part of a club here at nbr now. been visiting this place for a few yrs now and only now have i plunged. hp club, baby. lol.

got the express card slot open.

now im just trying out the touchpad. how do i do the middle click (ie. to open another tab on firefox.) also the scroll. dont know how to use it. lol.

oh man... im such a noob.

A NOOB WITH A SEXY LAPTOP! HAHA...sorry

 

The DV7T is awesome. read my review http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=284823

The scroll bar should be as easy as moving your finger up and down on the line lol.

As for opening another tab in firefox just hit CTRL + T. That will open it up for ya.

I hope you enjoy that laptop. HP is a good computer.

 

good review. nice pics too.

i think im getting the hang of the scroll pad.

with my desktop my middle click opened links in new tabs. how would i do this on this touchpad?

 

You probably have to reconfigure the shortcuts. Otherwise, i'm not to sure...

 

from dv7t to a firefox question..

Just press "Ctrl" while clicking your links using the touchpad. It would open in a new tab..

 

I really envy you guys for your wonderful laptop. Last year even I was really excited on buying a dv9500t with great specs. But unfortunately this year the nvidia 8400m gs has given up rendering 3d graphics and the laptop feels like a piece of junk.

No way to rectify this problem other than to replace the motherboard for which HP charges a petty $600-700. For now I am using the laptop with generic vista display drivers which allow 2d graphics but no 3d graphics.

HP you really had a plan it seemed...

 

thanks mainak.

ive been testing out the speakers and i gotta say im quite impressed. the sub is good. BUUUUUUUUUUUT every minute or so, the sound gets muffled for about 2 secs. this happens about every minute.

 

Software issue.

I haven't experienced that at all. I'm using the speakers right now.

 

i played around with the "controls idt audio settings" and it's still there.
could anyone give me specifics on how to fix this?