dv2500t/dv6500t/dv9500t Current/ Prospective Owners Lounge

[jinishans]

Are you kidding? Civ IV doesn't install on these laptops? o.o Perhaps it's Vista-related, in that case..

And apparently, the keyboard is un-even on the 6500 or something?

Also, what's the main difference between a 6500 and a 2500? I'm trying to decide which one to get. Thanks.

I got my dv9500t today and i'm going to receive it from the FrontDesk and see first whether the FP reader & WebCam are working. Then, going to install Civ 4 (i dont know whether it will install now). These are the 3 major issues i faced in my dv6500t. The only diff with my new dv9500t is the NV card i changed to 8600 GS instead of my 8400 GS. Lets see. Ill update in a day / two the feedback.

[Seth13]

I'm getting the same problem. They just never seem to update... they are always on the list of things needed to be d/led and installed. Forget em... they don't seem to be that big of a priority.

[EOTistatron]

All the hp bloatware probably slows your computer down. You should until all the stuff you don't need

I suppose all that's included on the recovery DVD, yeah? As to say that I couldn't just reformat with Vista?

Either way, what kind of performance have people had from the 8600GS? The upgrade from 84's the main reason for my interest in the dv9500t.

[gloveslap101]

anyone know if it's safe to use the "Recovery Manager" and remove the recovery partition if you've already made a recovery disk?

[orev]

The recovery DVD doesn't have those programs in a way that you can install them one by one. You have to do a full recovery if you want to get to them. They are stored on your C: drive in C:\swsetup.

It is safe to remove the recovery partition after you make the dvds. Keep in mind though, that burned DVDs can go bad, even in a few years. Personally I made ISO images in case there's a problem with them.

[gloveslap101]

my dv6500t idles at about 1GB RAM

[reallycoolname]

hey you guys, found this video of a dell with the same setup as a good 2500t with a 8400gs, running fear on all high settings, pretty impresive i think. check it out http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...33894057329785

[Silentcrisis]

jinishans, thanks. Waiting on your update. <_<

[BayAreaTech]

why does my 6500t special edition suck?

it has:
2.0 GHz T7300
2 GB RAM
160 GB HD
Geforce 8400GS
Vista Ultimate 64-bit

album scrolling on itunes takes forever and bf2 runs on low settings.

it certainly seems slower than my 4 year old desktop and the overall performance just seems choppy.

Three things immediately jump to mind when reading your post:

1) I mentioned my new motto in an earlier post: "When in doubt, blame Vista". Microsoft spent $6 billion on this? There is so much overhead running in the background, you simply must start tweaking the factory settings and ridding yourself of the crapware. When your done: Warmed-over Windows XP.

2) It's been documented, and Cnet ran a feature-story on it: Apple software, most notably iTunes, simply does not run nearly as well on Windows machines than on Macs. My next-door neighbor -- college computer-science professor and Apple evangelist -- totally agrees, but has no idea why Apple's software, especially the all-important iTunes, does not run as well on WinTel machines.

3) Desktops -- even older ones -- pretty much always run faster than notebooks. This is a general rule of thumb.

Like you, I have not been overwhelmed by any speed records on my new dv6500t. I'm still looking for more ways to tweak Vista and rid the notebook of more overhead, but I do love my HP and hope the Vista kinks eventually work themselves out.

Best of luck.

[spmulk989]

my dv6500t idles at about 1GB RAM

check out those updates microsoft released yesterday. they seem to make ram usagage go down by 10% or so.http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en