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4.5 stars
"Sold on this laptop comoputer!"
Pros: The hp dv9000us has a great screen at 17". A real number pad. Plenty of ins and outs like the HDMI port, expansion port, express card slot, 1394 port, soft touch keys above keyboard for DVD/CD
Cons: I have only owned desktop PC's so it took me a few days to get used to the touch pad. It can't be partitioned to get all 120 GB of HD space due to a permanent HD recovery.
Summary: I simply love this laptop. It has all the goodies. It's simple and easy to use. The keypad lay out is like a full desktop PC keyboard which was a big selling point for me.
I really wish that Hewlett Packard had given me the option to totally partition the HDD, but they have this HD recovery partition which gives me about 100GB. The HD recovery partition is around 11GB which leaves me wondering where the other space is. Hmmmm HP gave me two copies of the restore DVD's and I made copies. This is the laptops only real drawback. A 12x DVD drive would have been nice, but having the lightscribe technology mutes that con.
Overall HP scored big with this computer(would have scored it a 10, but for the partitioning thing). Built in Wi-Fi, more ports than the eastern seaboard and to top it all off I KNOW I made a great decision buying this unit. what a bargain!
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The loss in hard drive "space" has nothing to do with any type of recovery process. Anyone who purchases computers should know that hard drive space is "approximate" and should expect to lose out anywhere between 10-20 gigs on average. This is because the number of bytes used to "round up" to a gig, are actually less than a full gig. Over 100+ gigs, this comes out to a huge difference. In fact, if you go to HP.com or anywhere else that sells computers, you will see disclaimers about the hard drive size not being "100% usable".
It's the same for iPods. You buy an 80 gig iPod, but you can only use about 77 gigs of it. That's normal. Has nothing to do with HP, this happens on EVERY hard drive of every brand and every model for any kind of device, and is unavoidable, simply because the units used to measure hard drive space are flawed.
