*HP dv6t & dv7t (70XX / 71XX series) IVY BRIDGE Owners Lounge*

[kitsune556]

The "best" SSD will always be cheaper than the "HP SSD".
I picked up 16GB of RAM for $80
I picked up a 180GB Corsair Force GT SSD (One of the fastest SSD's) for $160.

My DV6 with my upgrades:


Has anyone's order actually started being built yet? I ordered literally 6 hours after it was available and mine has been at "Order Dropped Off at Factory" Status for 2 days now.

What clock speed is the RAM you bought & where did you buy it?

[bazbob]

What this guy said ^^

The "best" SSD will always be cheaper than the "HP SSD".
I picked up 16GB of RAM for $80
I picked up a 180GB Corsair Force GT SSD (One of the fastest SSD's) for $160.

My DV6 with my upgrades:


Has anyone's order actually started being built yet? I ordered literally 6 hours after it was available and mine has been at "Order Dropped Off at Factory" Status for 2 days now.

Mine says the same thing and I ordered 24 hours ago. My estimated ship date is May 15th .

On Monday when I was still looking it said May 8th.

[DirtyBob]

Has anyone's order actually started being built yet? I ordered literally 6 hours after it was available and mine has been at "Order Dropped Off at Factory" Status for 2 days now.

Online Order 04/30/2012, 02:24:21 PDT

Estimated ship date: May 9, 2012

Estimated ship date:
Your customized HP Pavilion dv6t Quad Edition customizable Notebook PC will be built by May 9, 2012

Status:
Order dropped to factory
(Estimated to ship on May 9, 2012)

[DirtyBob]

A 1 TB 5400 RPM drive will be slower than a 750 5400 RPM drive...

Why would a 1TB 5400 RPM drive be slower than a 750GB 5400 RPM drive?

[kitsune556]

Why would a 1TB 5400 RPM drive be slower than a 750GB 5400 RPM drive?

Larger hdd's are slower because the system has to index more available space. Also, there is more variance in read speed, meaning that the drive has to cycle up and down more often, generating more heat. The effect is not terribly significant, but can be seen in everyday use.

[rorkas]

Can anyone summarize how many Ram and HDD slots has each model?
Also on the website it says that optical drive is external, is this correct?

[xAnimal]

Can anyone summarize how many Ram and HDD slots has each model?
Also on the website it says that optical drive is external, is this correct?

The Optical Drive is NOT external, it is internal.
It has 2 RAM slots and the Ivy Bridge supports up to 1866mhz
I believe that this new Ivy refresh has 2 HDD Bays now, someone correct me if I'm wrong.

[rorkas]

The Optical Drive is NOT external, it is internal.
It has 2 RAM slots and the Ivy Bridge supports up to 1866mhz
I believe that this new Ivy refresh has 2 HDD Bays now, someone correct me if I'm wrong.

It's a little confusing. Judging by the configuration options for 15.6" it seems like it has only one HDD bay, while 17.3" has two. I really hoped for the external drive option - it would free one HDD slot and can be used on other computers as well.
I'd really like to hear opinion on this laptop from someone who'd get it in the next couple of days.

[xAnimal]

It's a little confusing. Judging by the configuration options for 15.6" it seems like it has only one HDD bay, while 17.3" has two. I really hoped for the external drive option - it would free one HDD slot and can be used on other computers as well.
I'd really like to hear opinion on this laptop from someone who'd get it in the next couple of days.

Judging by HP's track record, the people who got 2 day shipping and ordered monday should get it around the the 9th-12th.

If you wanna get a second HDD in there, remove the optical drive yourself. It's not too tricky, as long as you've got an adapter that fits.

[DirtyBob]

Larger hdd's are slower because the system has to index more available space. Also, there is more variance in read speed, meaning that the drive has to cycle up and down more often, generating more heat. The effect is not terribly significant, but can be seen in everyday use.

Actually, larger drives may be encoded more densely. If there are the same number of tracks/surfaces, this may allow more data to be transferred from a single track, increasing the speed. Performing the same operations on the disk with a more dense encoding could actually decrease disk access by reading more data at a time.

If there are more tracks on the same number of surfaces, the track to track distance would be shorter. Average track to track would, in theory, be similar if more data were on the disk than would fit on the smaller drive and the data were dispersed. It shouldn't be any slower.

Partition the drive so that the top 256GB contains seldom used data. Everything else should run at least as fast if not faster(everything else being equal).