dv1000 touchpad texture wears off

After only 1 week of moderate office use the texture of the touchpad is fading and there is a shiny area smack in the middle of it.

The pad-printed vertical scroll area is also fading. My guess is that HP has used cheap ABS or HIPS plastic material with a low hardness. As a comparison, my Wireless Desktop keyboard has seen major use in the past year and it is only now that the SPACE key gets some bald areas, looks like they used Polycarbonate fo the keys.

Wear is usual, but 1 week? That is pathetic...

 

Sounds like something is wrong with your unit.
I have had my DV1000 for over a month and use it about 2 - 3 hours a day and have not noticed any wearing off of the texture or the scroll silkscreen. I also have my touchpad setting set to 3/4 of the way to less sensitive so I usually press on it with a fair amount of pressure.

 

I'm just guessing here :

Each one has its own skin type , fat and acid and these could cause the various reasults ( in combine with low grade materials ) .

 

This is entirely possible. Abrasion usually is a funtion of material hardness of the 2 components involved (i.e. plastic and fingertip).

Acid content should not vary that much, especially at the fingertip.

There are actually industry specifications on how to test surface areas for excatly these cisumstances such as the Taber Abraser test and they even have a synthetic sweat solution, cosmetics test, butter test and so on (although mostly for painted parts).

For unpainted plastic, it mostly comes back to the plastic grade and its hardness. It may be that HP has switched to a cheaper grade since the plastic resin prices have doubled in the past year (due to high oil prices).

Oh well, I will try to get it replaced when I bring my laptop in for the bad Bluetooth chip it has...

Cheers.

 

Check this out. This is something I'm making for other dv1000 users..

http://www.dv1000forums.com/viewtopic.php?t=953

 

Yeah, I think the touchpads for the DV1000s are poorly made and will wear off very easily. I've seen many used DV1000s with worn out shiny touchpads. The keyboard on my DV4000 has already become worn out and shiny after only two months of use, pathetic.

 

I would call HP, just to hear what they say.

I remember that on my old zv5000, they used a smooth touchpad, rather than a textured one - that showed no signs of wear. Although it is not as pleasant to use as a textured one, it still gets the job done without showing any wear.

 

Yeah, HP DV4000s have smooth touchpads in contrast to the textured ones on the DV1000s. I'm extremely upset at HP using such cheap plastic, because the DV1000s and DV4000s look like such great notebooks!!

I know it isn't a big deal, but its almost a dealbreaker for me!