*HP dv4i Owners Lounge*

jpark93 · 01-14-2010, 07:55 PM

Hello everyone, this thread is dedicated to the HP dv4i and is intended to be a place to talk specifically about this laptop. Please post specs on your system as well as any questions you may have about anything in the computer.

Quadron · 01-16-2010, 07:37 AM

I think it's pretty sweet that HP finally upgraded the dv4. It looks like a much more nicely speced machine and should perform better, though I wish they stuck a 5000 series graphics card in it. I'm not sure why they didn't.

nu_D · 03-07-2010, 08:20 AM

Anyone own one of these? I'm wondering what sort of temps it has...

whackamac · 03-07-2010, 12:22 PM

I picked one of these up last night to replace the HP DM3 I "mistakenly" bought a few days ago. All I have to say is wow... This thing is UBER fast for it's size. The Core i5 matches the performance of older "X" series intel notebook processors.

This thing is a dream. Mind you I have an monster i7 triplehead gaming rig at my office. This laptop is fast. Very fast. The processor is quick, the drive is a WD Black (7.2k yay!), the screen is bright with no sign of leakage (go LED!), and it is not to big.

and, it plays TF2. YEAH BABY...

As far as heat. I am using it right now with shorts on and bare legs and I feel pretty much no heat coming from the bottom typing to you right now. I have had this on for a while too. The unit is no warmer than warm skin.

Though I haven't properly "raped" the system yet, I will come back with more that I find... So far this system is impressive on all feats.

I have a DV4-2170us with the new Intel HD Graphics. It plays TF2. Well. lol...

nu_D · 03-07-2010, 12:45 PM

That sounds great! My DV2500, the old 14in model, burned itself to death...and the HDD died twice so the temps really concern me.

If you could do me a huge favor and download HWmonitor and post the temps you get after an hour or so of just casual browsing/music or whatever...you can get it here

That would be great!!

shmuey · 03-08-2010, 08:22 AM

I bought a dv4i from Staples last week and have been very disappointed. It's the i5-430m model (dv4-2170us). At first I was pleasantly surprised by the aesthetics and performance, but over the week the system has been unstable with supporting even internet browsing. I've tried firefox, ie, AND chrome, and all have crashed. At first I thought it might be due to Norton, so I removed it. The problem still continues... it appears that simply running flash has caused it to crash multiple times (which I've reinstalled multiple times). I even got a blue screen last night! The integrated webcam software caused the system to do this...its completely ridiculous. Do you guys think I likely just got a defective unit and should try to exchange for another?

neogamer1988 · 03-09-2010, 12:22 PM

Ok dude, you are strating to freak me out. I just ordered this system. also Intel Core i5, w/ free upgrade to ATI 4550 from default intel HD graphics. So far after reading all the posts regarding this unit, from different forums, I think it is a well rounded system, which is what I'm looking for. As for your problem, you should call HP and demand a replacement.

Other owners dont seem to have that problem, so it's probably just ur defective unit. (i hope that's the case, no offence though)

xsier · 03-10-2010, 11:14 AM

I just ordered one of these from the HP site with the i5, free upgrade to the ATI HD 4550, 320gig 7200 hard drive for $625 plus tax. Seems like a really good deal to me.

ndelano · 03-10-2010, 08:58 PM

I too am getting the dv4i. Unfortunately I missed the free ati upgrade (literally here today, gone tomorrow) but I have coupons so not a deal breaker. I ultimately decided to choose this over a vaio cw, since upgraded it has a faster processor, hard drive, better graphics card and more useful display (taller vs. wider). HP as a brand kind of scares me, half the people I know that own one have had some sort of hardware malfunction whereas the other half couldn't be happier. Hopefully lady luck is with me on this one. Also I kind of feel like a tool for spending money on midnight rather than bluetooth, so sue me.

xsier · 03-10-2010, 09:42 PM

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Originally Posted by ndelano

I too am getting the dv4i. Unfortunately I missed the free ati upgrade (literally here today, gone tomorrow) but I have coupons so not a deal breaker. I ultimately decided to choose this over a vaio cw, since upgraded it has a faster processor, hard drive, better graphics card and more useful display (taller vs. wider). HP as a brand kind of scares me, half the people I know that own one have had some sort of hardware malfunction whereas the other half couldn't be happier. Hopefully lady luck is with me on this one. Also I kind of feel like a tool for spending money on midnight rather than bluetooth, so sue me.

Good stuff, i hope so as well.

I've actually been very lucky with this deal. I got the ATI upgrade plus the I5 upgrade for a total of $512.50 plus Tax. Part of that is Bing cash back and the rest a credit given to me by HP. So i'm very happy and looking forward to receiving this.

Just wished i had ordered 4 gigs of memory rather than 3.