Ordered my dv9000t

Hi, first I wanted to say thanks for all the info. I have been in the market for a new laptop for a few months and I decided to wait for the release of Vista nd 2007... since personally I hate upgrades.

I ordered my laptop a few hours after HP started selling them with vista installed (I'm in Japan so I checked in the afternoon... XP.. then in the evening Vista). I was happy to see the dual 7200 rpm 100 gig hard drives (I was planning on buying a single and installing the second. I was also suprised by the upgraded TV tuner (though in the end I realized I hate things hanging off my laptop).

I was hoping someone could post a picture and/or describe how the Mobile Remote Control Express Card looks while inside the laptop... is it flush

I think my uses may be a little different than the most home users, but I thought I'd ask a few perfomance questions on the off chance that someone is putting their laptop under a similar load... I have a small moonlighting job where I developing software.... basically I will be running vmware (beta 6) and rhel 4 as a guest (with apache, db2 server half the time oracle server the other half)... part of what I am wondering... when I transition off my current laptop to this new laptop should I migrate up to 64bit vista, vmware, and rhel, db2 and oracle.... will this boost perfomance at all?



Anyway Here's my specs
HP Pavilion dv9000t customizable Notebook PC

• HP Mobile Remote Control Express Card
• Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium
• Intel(R) Core(TM) 2 Duo T7200 (2.0GHz/4MB L2Cache)
• 17.0" WSXGA+ BrightView Widescreen (1680x1050)
• 512MB NVIDIA(R) GeForce(R) Go 7600
• HP Imprint Finish + Microphone + Webcam
• 2048MB DDR2 System Memory (2 Dimm)
• 200GB 7200RPM SATA Dual Hard Drive (100GB x 2)
• FREE Upgrade - LightScribe DVD+/-RW w/Double Layer
• Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network w/Bluetooth
• No TV Tuner w/remote control
• High Capacity 8 Cell Lithium Ion Battery
• Microsoft(R) Office Professional 2007
• System Recovery DVD w/Windows Vista Home Premium
• HP Home & Home Office Store in-box envelope

 

Congrats on the purchase! Sounds like a very well configured system!

May it serve you well.

 

Nice laptop congrats and enjoy

 

It sits flush with the laptop. It is pretty thin & basically designed to fit inside the expresscard slot.

 

Thank you all for the comments and info!

 

yeah those are excellent specs, and a beautiful laptop...

you will love it!

 

Is this system a 32 bit or 64 bit?

 

It is capable of running both 32 bit & 64 bit OS if you configure/purchase it with the Core 2 Duo. But HP currently only sell 32 bit OS on their systems.

 

Thanks for the info because I was going to upgrade my dv9000t to windows vista and wasn't sure witch version to use.

 

Oh, the remote control does fit flush maybe even a little recessed. One thing though: when you put in the battery for the remote it does not seem to seat very well and sometimes cause the remote not to work until squeezed hard so I have learned to take a piece of scotch tape and use it to hold the battrey in place before snapping on the cover.

 

Nice! I just ordered almost the same thing. Why did you go with Vista Premium instead of Ultimate?