*HP HDX18 Owners Lounge*

[lancorp]

Please LET ME KNOW if your Quad gets hot, please run it at full throttle in Vista, (high performance) and let me know if the fan is loud and if you can put it on your lap...

I really need to know if this thing is loud (fan wise) and if after 20 mins of heavy use, you can put it on your lap....

I just checked, and after being on for about 4 hours now, continuously, I felt the bottom and it's barely warm. I cannot imagine that cranking the CPU will warm it up that much more.

Also, there is a BIOS option to run the fans all the time, and the default was ON, and I turned it off when I first fired it up. So, the fan's are probably not even running much!

The left palmrest is warm, not hot at all, still.


My HDX20 Dragon runs very cool, too...

[Yarseyer]

Just got my Notebook with quad. Opening the box now....woooo

[iwinusuck]

Just got this one yesterday. From first boot up the screen goes black for a while and it takes for ever for things like event viewer or msconfig. After turning everything off one by one in startup I discovered that the Cyberlink startup items are causing this. Not sure what to do from there except untick them.

[TheAtreidesHawk]

Well, I managed to clone my HDX16t drive to a new 320GB/7200 Seagate, pop it in the HDX18t, and fire it up. After a bit of driver updating, everything is working as it should--Audio, fingerprint reader kept my enrolled fingerprints from the HDX16, all the hardware is there.

The screen is nice. Perfect size and resolution. Brighter would be nice...

Now, to fire off some music from my Zune software and see how that sounds. My Dragon HDX20 is phenomenal in the audio department...I doubt it's smaller sibling will be able to keep up.

But, so far, relatively cool. The left palmrest is warm but not hot. That's where my single HD is.

Time to go play some more!

How much are you selling the 2nd one for?

[lancorp]

Just got off the phone with HP... they tried to convince me I didn't actually have the QX9300! I spent so long on the phone with people who didn't know what they are talking about, I want to gouge my eyes out with spoons.

I've got the direct line to the *US* case managers, so I think I will bother them soon.

LOL!! Then, when you send it back make sure to put in a T8400 or something...if they question it, tell them they told you that you didn't have a QX9300!!

[vistabad]

How much are you selling the 2nd one for?

he said starting $2600....

[vistabad]

I just checked, and after being on for about 4 hours now, continuously, I felt the bottom and it's barely warm. I cannot imagine that cranking the CPU will warm it up that much more.

Also, there is a BIOS option to run the fans all the time, and the default was ON, and I turned it off when I first fired it up. So, the fan's are probably not even running much!

The left palmrest is warm, not hot at all, still.


My HDX20 Dragon runs very cool, too...

That is great to hear! I will let you guys know soon how hot my tablet PC gets....

Hopefully HP has worked out the overheating issue....

[lancorp]

he said starting $2600....

It's on ebay if anyone is interested.

Update on impressions and performance:

The audio on this HDX18t is phenomenal! Almost as good as the HDX20 Dragon! For those of you unfamiliar with those units, the audio is about the best of any notebook out there. Actual BASS you can feel.

The audio on the HDX18t is just about as good. Since I cloned my HDX16t over to the '18, I'm not really sure what comes with the HDX18t, driverwise...is there an IDT Audio control panel with Equalization sliders? I have that now and it sounds great.

I ran Tunebite with 20 simultaneous WMA's converting to MP3's at 2x speed (40X overall throughput) and the CPU was only at 50-60%! That's better than my Dell XPS 720 with QX6800!

I did 62 songs and felt the bottom of the HDX18t, and there was negligable heat. Only the far back right was warm (that is where the heat exhausts). The rest was roughly room temperature. Nice!!!

I'm really liking this unit. With the display filled with Windows, it's very clear and sharp. The resolution is PERFECT for this size display. Icons are perfect size.

I'm a happy camper! (and, no lockups, hiccups, screwups!)

[vistabad]

It's on ebay if anyone is interested.

Update on impressions and performance:

The audio on this HDX18t is phenomenal! Almost as good as the HDX20 Dragon! For those of you unfamiliar with those units, the audio is about the best of any notebook out there. Actual BASS you can feel.

The audio on the HDX18t is just about as good. Since I cloned my HDX16t over to the '18, I'm not really sure what comes with the HDX18t, driverwise...is there an IDT Audio control panel with Equalization sliders? I have that now and it sounds great.

I ran Tunebite with 20 simultaneous WMA's converting to MP3's at 2x speed (40X overall throughput) and the CPU was only at 50-60%! That's better than my Dell XPS 720 with QX6800!

I did 62 songs and felt the bottom of the HDX18t, and there was negligable heat. Only the far back right was warm (that is where the heat exhausts). The rest was roughly room temperature. Nice!!!

I'm really liking this unit. With the display filled with Windows, it's very clear and sharp. The resolution is PERFECT for this size display. Icons are perfect size.

I'm a happy camper! (and, no lockups, hiccups, screwups!)

You're making me jealous!!!

I will have to decide soon what I want to do. I really want the quad, knowing that quads are out there, I don't want to settle for anything less..

But the $2600 price tag is a lot to swallow. I would have to wait 1 year or maybe even 1 1/2 years in order to get a quad for $1600 for the total price of the unit and there's no way I can wait that long with this crappy keyboard...

The heat issue is a big big PLUS. The reason why I asked about the fan noise is that I like to keep my laptop on at night especially if I am downloading and I wouldn't want to hear the fan spinning all night long....

What about the rest of you guys who got the HDX18t? Any thoughts?

We already know PDX got his laptop from the bad batch...

[pdx-alpha]

I just talked to an "escalations manager" and he basically told me I'll have to wait until the quads come out again to get my system replaced.

Apparently it'll be ok if that goes over my 21-day return period. I'm going to use this time to try and fix the keyboard without scratching it up too much.

Still no word from Ryan, maybe I'll hear something different.

On a happier note, I got the 10% + $75 credit for my troubles with the delay.