wth, 7200rpm only for HP Pavilion dv6z ??

From the HP website, I have been looking at getting a decent multimedia, do it all laptop replacement for my mom for christmas, been looking at the HP Pavilion DV line 15", however the ONLY 7200rpm hard drive option is with the 6z, the amd cpu which isnt bad at all, but why would they only have 7200rpm hard drive on the amd notebook but only have 5400 rpm drives with the intel notebooks????

most importantly, the biggest coupon codes I've found are with intel cpu models, and only a 10$ coupon code for the AMD. an SSD option is too expensive and not needed, but I wouldnt wish a 5400rpm drive on anyone

 

When I checked it went ahead and selected the 640 gig saying that it was a free "upgrade". And thats a dv6zqe series. But there was allot of flooding at the hard drives factories so maybe HP is having some trouble getting a hold of some cheap 5400 RPM drives.

 

Yeah, only offering 5400 rpm drives for "high performance" Pavilion models, especially DV6T, DV7T SE and QE is super-retarded.

I'm not sure I buy the Thailand flood/drive shortage excuse either, something else must be the real reason, since 7200 rpm drives are readily available for the Envy, and other high-volume manufacturers like Dell are still offering 7200 rpm drives across the board on midrange and high-end laptops, no shortage there.

I'm wondering if the real reason isn't really related to an overheating problem and they dropped down to the low performance disk drives as a heat-reducing measure so they could still keep the faster, hotter CPUs and graphics interfaces in these laptops, as an attempt to reduce heat-related warranty returns and repairs.

With the DV7T-QE you can still get a dual-drive 660GB option that has a 160GB SSD and a 500GB 7200rpm mechanical drive, but that's an extra $400 which is painful expensive.

 

You could also buy a cheap 7200 RPM drive off eBay and do it yourself if your comfortable doing that. then you could turn around and sell the 5400 RPM for at least half your money back. Personally, that's what I would do OR I would buy this stellar deal : Newegg.com - Recertified: HP Pavilion dv6-6135DX Refurbished Notebook AMD A-Series A8-3500M(1.5GHz) 15.6" 6GB Memory DDR3 640GB HDD Blu-Ray Drive AMD Radeon HD 6750M

I had a 7200 RPM 500 gig laying around and went ahead and swapped them. There is a noticeable difference in boot time. I believe you can get the same deal from tigerdirect for 499.99 but they charge tax in some states. These are re certified and come with a 3 month warranty from HP but mine literally looks brand new.

 

Can't do that. I'm buying laptops for my employer/company and the business requirement is that the laptops must be custom ordered with Win 7 Professional or Ultimate o/s, and come from the factory as turnkey new products, with a specific set of options included at purchase time, plus the extended warranty (min 3 yrs) and cannot be "tampered" with by employees.

Right now, since the dv#t lineup cannot be bought with 7200 rpm drives, I'm holding out for the hopefully accurate release date of the new next generation Envy 3D models (Dec 7th) since I must have the purchase made by end of business day Dec 8th to meet our internal finance dept's cutoff date for tax year 2011 "capital item purchases". If those new machines aren't orderable by the cutoff date, then I have to buy the current (last year's model) Envy 17 3D since the boss man said to get two laptops ordered, they must have i7 cpu's, must have 8GB memory, must have 500-750GB 7200 rpm drives, and must have 1080p displays, as well as the O/S and extended warranty options above and at least one USB 3.0 port. And they have to come from the primary vendor all equipped like that, which leave HP and Dell, and Dell's XPS series seem to be having unfixable USB 3.0 problems.

 

business models with 3D? is the 3D even worth it??

 

When you have capable hardware the 3D is pretty worth it. I got to game on a 3D model G53 and it was pretty nice I must say. Also you might want to check out ASUS G74 line of laptops as they are very nice and available in 3D. My USB 3.0 Port has had no problems on my G53SW.

 

The reason for the 3D choice on the current year's Envy 17 is that it's the only way to get a 1080p screen on this particular model. Also desired is the 120Hz refresh rate. These laptops will be used a lot for viewing high definition medical imaging stuff. the actual 3D feature won't be used but this screen provides the brightest, sharpest 2D display currently available in the Envy laptops.


As to ASUS, unfortunately there exists no ASUS factory-run web store where you can custom-equip a laptop the way we need. ASUS laptops seem to only be available as pre-configed/fixed config models, with Windows Home O/S versions. The only vendors who both make and sell their name-brand laptops on their own corporate website that you can customize the way we need with "corporate" version of the pre-installed O/S are: HP, Dell (also Alienware), Sony, and Lenovo, and of those, only HP and Dell offer really business-presentable, really high-performance laptops since the "teenager" looks of an Alienware laptop will not go over well in the office.