Why did you buy an HP Laptop?

I bought my first HP last month -- dv7. I pulled the trigger on this model because it was the best bang for the buck. I was able to test drive it at Best Buy and it fit my needs and wants: great screen, good build quality, capable of gaming, tons of ram, quad core, etc.

How about you?

 

The same reason as you, except I bought mine almost four months ago now and I purchased a DV6...

 

Same thing for me. I couldn't beat it for the price.

 

Yep price. But HP Portugal is a disaster, they only have 1000 Euros DV7's and higher, while France, Germany, UK all have lower budget DV7's at 600 and 700 Euros. I had to bought a British DV7, so HP Britain got my money and HP Portugal got nothing. In the end a client not very happy and they didn't got my money. Certainly not a basis for a continued relation...

Seems i am in a rich country but didn't noticed it .

 

at the time i bought this (about a year ago) this was the best performing machine i could buy
specs in sig cost around 850

 

1920x1080 Screen was my driving factor for a laptop and I knew it wouldn't be any good without spending somewhere around 1,000.

1145 (with tax) for it? I just went ahead and got it.

 

price quality and 3 year warranty . at the timre it had great specs, 1680x1050 screen at1 2600 and 7500 cpu . That was 2 years ago and it is still ging stromg with a few upgrades

 

Bang for the buck, but that fails in my book.

If HP took out a couple of ports that they are so proud of and put a large vent in them, they would be great.

I like what they offer, but the major down side is the heat sink builds.

Been fighting with HP over my DV5Z for 3 months now and am now getting upgraded to a DV6Z CTO. We shall see if that turion II chip fares better than it's 90nm cousin.

 

I am currently using my 4th HP product,dv9312tx, which I got in July 2007 because I had been satisfied with their earlier products since 2001. However, I am certain this one is going to be the last HP product for me.

 

I love bronze finish on my dv7 laptop with nice chrome trim.With SSD this machine is fast.The best speaker system on laptop I ever hear.SRS Premium and IDT do the job perfectly.This is my second dv7 in one year and never had any problems except dust in infinity lcd in previous machine.Now I chose non infinity lcd.I hope this one will be problem free.

 

I have purchased three notebooks since 2004; all of them have been of very good quality, had good design characteristics, and satisfied my requirements. The first HP I bought was the Pavilion zv5000z; I purchased a Pavilion dv5t last year and finally the ProBook 5310m a few weeks ago. HP has always been good to me - that's one of the reasons I keep buying them.

I bought this latest Probook because it was exactly was exactly what I was looking for - thin/light 12-13.3" laptop with 3+ hours battery and a good keyboard for <$1,000. It is a beautiful machine and I am very happy with the purchase. I also considered a Dell Latitude E4300. I wrote a review of the 5310m here:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=432540

 

i bought an hp 8510p. Saw this notebook for the first time and really like the design. Searched the internent for the reviews and almost are making praises. Business notebook though so warranty is good. workmanship is solid. and performance is acceptable.

 

I like HP because of slim design. Other brands look "bulky" (except for apple).

 

I like the look, plus it was the best bang for the buck (lol and they gave me a beastly new computer when my first broke - but i didnt know that in advance )

 

I bought my Dv5t because it was the best performing laptop i could find at that time but now i regret it because i could have gotten a better MSI one for the same price if i had looked brb... and yes i nver wanna buy a overheating hp laptop ever again...

 

I bought might for two reasons. My old laptop died so I didn't want to wait several weeks for a new one to arrive while finals were going on. As well, it met most of the specifications I needed and was very light.

The positive reviews helped as well!

 

I have been very satisfied with all the HP computer I have bought since 2003. First was a Desktop with Intel Celeron (gave it away to a family member and still running) , my first laptop ZV5000z (Sold after 2years since I needed smaller and lighter laptop to carry around school) , and my current DV2000Z almost 3years old.

They have the best quality, value performace you can get in the market, way better than Dell which was few years a go #1. Since I first year in college in 04 all I saw was how my friends Dell laptops will fall apart year over year.

 

I bought an HP because Dell and IBM/Lenovo dropped the ball on their tablets. I love Dell and all, but the XT was overpriced and under-performing, and the XT2 isn't that much better. Not to mention the n-trig stuff just doesn't cut it for me. IBM/Lenovo have had some good offerings after the x41t, but nothing in my price range, and nothing with a touchpad.

TC4200 was simply the best I could get in my situation, and I don't regret it

 

So HP offered you an exchange? Please comment on how thye came up with that decision (good for you!!!).

Did you sent it in fist so they can look at it, then got it back and realised that nothing changed, that sort of stuff?

The new Turion II is 45 nm, so supposedly running while using less power, but it's still a 35Watts TDP CPU, just like the older Turion X2 65nm.

 

I had to exchange my first dv5t too, but it was within the first 21 days of purchase, so I didn't have to fight with HP!

To answer the original question, I bought an HP because, after researching A LOT of laptops, and having a long list of features that I wanted to have, HP was virtually the only manufacturer that offered almost all of what I wanted --- and the dv5t was pretty much the perfect choice. I'm really happy with my choice, and I love the laptop, in spite of the fact that it does get really warm when I'm on-line for any extended period of time, and I do have some very weird sound issues -- but all in all it's a great machine. My first one was a lemon, but fortunately the replacement dv5t is pretty much trouble free.

 

Price, gaming capabilities, screen size, and for the built in webcam setup and the touch media controls....price is the biggy tho

 

Bought it awhile ago. Spent $1,500 for a GeForce 7400 Go and a Core 2 Duo back when it was new in laptops. I feel stupid looking back on that.

HP's are getting expensive for what you get if you look... For the lowest end i7 HP you could get a decent ASUS i7 w/ a GTX 260M, two harddrives, bluray, 1080 screen, better speakers and battery life, etc.

 

I bought my HP Compaq nw8440 almost 3.5 years ago because I didn't have a choice. At my school, you had to buy the EXACT laptop that the institute specified FROM THEM.

Thankfully, they picked out a very nice machine, but it was also very expensive (~$3200! But that included free access to tens of thousands of dollars worth of software like AutoCad, Maple, etc.). And so far, despite almost daily use and travel, my nw8440 has been a great machine! (the only thing that needed replacing was my optical drive, and I've gone through 5-6 power adapters)

 

I bought an HP Envy 15 since there is nothing in the market like that.

Nobody has a 15 inch laptop with WUXGA, up to 16GB of RAM, (at that time we thought) dual HDDs, i7 and a 40nm GPU for any price.

I grabbed mine for under 1.5K, cheaper than a "comparable" MBP. The expected life batter of 7.5 hours was very tempting though impossible in real life, so that pushed me too. And the Envy is just too good looking...bang for the buck no matter what other reviews say, nobody has this on the market.