HP Pavilion DV9705 Reviews: Windows Vista Home Premium 17" Screen Laptop computer

+ has met all my requirements so far and i tjink i got good value for money

- a user manuel would have been useful

+ Quite fast

- Less Quantity in Hard drive for value for money

+ The quickplay keys are easy to use to set up the dvd player... having a separate set of keys for the numbers is good as well.
Having 4 usb ports is excellent and the dvd/ lightscribe player is pretty good too.

- nothing with the machine- windows vista can be problematic but with 2Gb of RAM you are able to make this machine pretty good.
Oh and don't get a 17" screen if you are going to be carrying it around lots, it's really heavy, but for watching films and tv on it's great.

+ Does everything that i want it to fast! A quality laptop!!

- None

+ Stylish

- Weight

+ Reviewer left no comment

- its brocken after use couple months

+ big screen

- icons difficult to get used to
keeps disconnecting from internet
can't read certain discs eg Windows disc not recognised
feel windows should be standard

+ Well designed very sleek looking machine. Build quality is very good, but wouldn't expect anything less from HP. Large 17" screen, built in nemerical key pad. Space to install a second hard drive (see bad points)

- Graphics card is not exceptional so don't buy this machine to play games on. That said it is more than adequate for home or Office use. Although a second hard drive can be installed a special adapter and caddy are required which I could only source from the USA (very expensive for what they are). Comes with a lot of HP bloatware pre-installed which slows the machine down considerably, but easily removed. Consider re-formatting and installing a fresh copy of windows which makes it much faster.

+ Separate number pad
Wide screen

- Windows Vista

+ The HP DV9705 laptop looks quite stylish, lovely swirly pattern within the highly polished black & alu finishes, with cool blue leds to light up the built in 'touch' volume control, quick dvd, start-stop-play. 17" widescreen is far far better to look at films & other multimedia with than a 4:3 15.4", surfing no problem. Numeral keypad great for scientific use, spreadsheets etc. Built in webcam and phone absolutely a whizz for talking on Skype or Messenger - otherwise speakers were adequate, meaning still could do better HP.

- Dear HP, why oh why did the laptop have to have a locking device, it means that there are slots cut in the nice alu spoiling the overall effect. From the feel I'd also expect the locking pegs to break sometime soon. Is it me or does the AMD processor get a bit hot?! Comparable Intels on my kids HP dual core laptops seem much cooler! Power cable input on the right hand side seems awkward, an extra USB port could be nice. HP ship all their laptops with 30 day bundles of software, Microsoft Office and Norton or MacAfee or whatever to fund some saving to customer? not sure but obviously you take the time to wipe it and get some space back on the Hard Drive, but the HP software like all the rest seem as though they never thought to ask customers what tools they'd like.

+ You know, if HP had just thought a bit more this could have been a great stylish computer - the pattern on the casing is fab, powerful AMD dual core processor, 2Gb memory, 17" widescreen ( mines a recon with initial bad pixels but now back 100% good ) fantastic for surfing or watching DVDs, proper Video card inside, brill built in web cam & microphone so you can use with skype or MSN . proper numeric keypad . finger sensitive media controls for volume, DVD .. etc.

- The little men at HP chose to make this model with a locking mechanism, with slots cut in the alu casing, utterly spoiling the clean lines of the casing. Maybe as well as the CPU does seem to get noticeably warmer than an Intel equivalent ( had bought 2 17" HPs for my son & daughter which you couldn't feel any CPU heat ). An extra USB port would be nice ( they never use the back which would get these out of the way of DVD and power cords etc ). & obviously they want to sell you their HP care software which drags down the efficiency, along with antivirus & Office which you then take off.