HP DV5-1213 Reviews: Windows Vista Home Premium 15.4" Screen Laptop computer

+ Very nice, smart HP design, easy to carry around, not too heavy. A few extra things like lightscribe (designing the own labels on the discs), a remote (useful when watching films), various USB ports (6), so you dont have to swap printer, camera cable every time you want to use it. Didnt have any serious problems so far. Good for students (multitask computer e.g watching films, listening to music and working in Word, Excel, Powerpoint Documents at the same time)

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+ Stylish, good performance and good value for money. Also very sturdy and unlikely to be affected by bumps. Backs up all files if battery dies, resumes quickly so once you've plugged in you're working or playing again in under a min.

- Low battery life is really the only thing thats a bit of a pain. It'll last 2/3 houres depending on what you're doing and wat performance plan you have it on.

+ Extremely powerful performance and stunning design/looks/features for the price! Easily the best laptop I've ever owned. Feels extremely special to use from the keyboard to the mousepad, lovely to look at. A lot of features/programs to play with, overall a highly recommended laptop!

- Fairly short battery life, a little heavy, hard to keep clean!!! fingerprint magnet lol!

+ Superbly designed and well specced 15.4'' laptop. Excellent processor, huge quantity of RAM, good graphics card and a stunning screen. Handles all programs with little or no fuss and was simple and straight forward to set up.

- Less than 90 minutes from the battery when using it with WI-FI switched on, about 2 hours with WI-FI switched off and running non-intensive programs and no second battery included.
4GB RAM is a wonderful selling point but the operating system only supports upto 3GB RAM, a 64bit operating system would not have cost anything extra.

+ Nice design

- Very slow. Don't know if it's Windows Vista (quite why an OS requires 1gb of RAM to run I don't know) or if it's the computer. I thought I was getting a good model (2.2ghz - dual core - 4gb of ram - 512mb graphics) but it takes ages to load up all types of programs. very disappointing.

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- pre loaded software difficult to get rid of

+ Great performance, great sound. Performs well with VGA or HDMI output at high res. Great versatility with pretty much all media card/cable/wireless interfaces

- Screen is up to date with WXVGA glossiness, however still not quite up to the Viao standard. Not as rich in colour as it could be. Even in Power Saver mode, battery doesn't last as long as expected but you still get a good hour out of it with Wireless turned on.

+ Brilliant laptop for gamers.
High limit on storage.
Very easy to use.

- battery life dies quite quickly. always need to plug in the charger.

+ Performance, appearance, well made, solid feel, good display

- No Serial Port (But then very few laptops do have one these days and most people don't need it anyway)

+ stylish,easy to use,excellent web cam.

- charger slips out easily.

+ Good Battery Life, Not too heavy

- Not easy to keep clean. A real fingerprint magnate

+ it handles basically every task which I need doing and it can play the most up to date games. It rarely crashes and is just generally awesome. Sound quality is really good for a laptop.

- Dust appears to be magnetically pulled towards the screen which isn't a major problem but after a while gets really annoying. Despite its amazing spec it still can not play the very most up to date games on the graphic settings that i would have liked to have been able to.

+ Slick looking, great design, easy to use. high performance. good value depending on deal you get!

- Battery life isnt great but still better than most laptops

+ Good looking, sounding, and performance (the graphics card is up to the latest games).

- Very reflective screen, which both makes it hard to use with windows or lights behind you, and also shows up every greasy finger-mark! Secondly, the battery life is poor, which is very disappointing seeing as it has the very latest of the AMD processors designed for low power usage. Finally, it gets very hot if actually on your lap or a cloth surface, ie you'd be recommended to put it on a flat hard surface and not onto fabric.

+ very sllek, looks nice. amazing features and very good graphics

- slightly shorter battery life but for the way i use it, plugged in permanently this does not matter.