life span of the dv5t?

I was thinking about buying the hp dv5t for college.
is this a type of laptop that withstand normal and regular use?
Do you think it would be able to make it through four years of college?

 

It will be useless slow before it stops working if you take care of it.

 

Four years? With care, yes. You will be buying batteries though.........

 

I am a graduate student and I travel with my DV5T 3 times a week for 8 or more hours and it's still running smoothly. It is also still physically like new. It is a little heavy though. If I could go back in time, I would choose both the DV5T as a destktop replacement(because of the 7200rpm hard drive and average size), and buy a mini to carry around to classes. If you live on campus, then the DV5T will be just fine (less traveling).

 

I agree with Sparkles. Heck I would just get the dv7t as a desktop replacement and buy a small HP mini to carry to class.

You could even buy a desktop with power for cheap and buy an HP mini for class and traveling around campus.

The dv5t I have seems too heavy to carry around everywhere, especially a large campus.

 

I have a DV 2120 us that was made in nov 2006 I am on my third power cord the battery is at 40 percent capacity. Cords are $90 and batteries are $130. The fan quit about 2 months ago but it may be full of pumice from riding in my bike bag. The screen is quite scratched and no one will replace this one dollar piece of plastic.

 

My brother has a dv8230us we bought from ebay im pretty sure it never had any manufacture problems. It has been upgraded to a 1680 x 1050 screen a core 2 duo t5500 and 2gb of ram and its still going just fine. Its from around june 2006.

 

I understand the battery and fan. But what went wrong with the power cord?

 

Can get the batteries for way cheaper on eBay- they are original HP parts too.

Speaking of which, man I am jacked waiting for HP to release those crazy good batteries they announced a while ago. We should expect a LOT more battery life and a LOT more charge cycles before experiencing any loss...... or so they say.

Oh. I am rocking a DV2500T. I find it to be the perfect size personally. It's small enough to carry in your bag and you literally barely notice the weight yet it's powerful enough to do anything you want for the most part. I have had it for about 2 years now, I had to change the hard drive but that's probably partly my fault- lolz.

Anywho. She is still churning along quite beautifully actually. I thought about getting a desktop and what not but I didn't want to deal with the hassle. You tend to move around in college and well, I didn't see the point of having two computers. Seemed like a lot of work to transfer over files and what not and I knew eventually I would just use one of the machines almost exclusively. So I got myself the "Quickdock" so I can easily pop in my laptop and it's basically a desktop for all intents and purposes. I also got myself an external monitor......... this way I have the best of both worlds without having to deal with two separate machines. I guess I could have had a more powerful desktop and a smaller laptop, but personally, I would rather have the best of both worlds in 1 machine- just simpler that way. Less to move. Less to worry about, especially in college man.

Hope that helps.

Oh #2. HP now has a 13.3in laptop and that's probably an even better option than the 14.1in. Had they sold it back when I bought my DV25, I would have probably gotten that one just cause it's a tad smaller. Look into it and g'luk.

 

Interesting, but will the older discontinued models like yours & mine see these new batteries or will it be for the latest models?