HP Pavilion DV6-1354US 15.6-Inch Black Laptop – Up to 4 Hours of Battery Life
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Buy HP Pavilion DV6-1354US 15.6-Inch Black Laptop – Up to 4 Hours of Battery Life at Amazon
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December 23rd, 2009 at 5:20 am
I purchased model DV6-1354US with 500gb hard drive and 6 cell battery. I use this laptop for editing photos with Adobe Photoshop CS4, as well as editing audio with Adobe Audition 2.0.
I have a five year old HP laptop running XP and it is still going strong. Despite outsourced Indian phone support, I was able to communicate support issues effectively. I am confident in future hardware performance and support from HP.
Transition from XP to Windows 7 was intuitive. The new taskbar is my favorite improvement. Followed by much better graphic interface and widgets. Some of my XP software causes Windows 7 to turn off Aero mode. I feel that windows has caught up with Apple in terms of graphics and workflow.
As far as laptop is concerned, Dave from Portland has a great review comparing the different models available on Amazon. The DV6-1354US is sufficient for me to use Adobe Photoshop and Audition, as well as multitask.
I will never go to a laptop again without a numeric keypad, this was an unexpected plus. I do miss the old HP media controls above the keyboard. They are replaced now by a volume and wireless control. I like that they are no longer buttons but touch sensitive surfaces above the keyboard.
The DV6 is quieter and cooler than my old HP. The power cord is beefier, which was always a problem with my old HP. Although I would prefer a magnetic power cord like Apple offers. Compared to other manufacturers, I would have to say that HP has the best price for great, reliable hardware.
Everything is a wonderful improvement except for the sound. Frequently, friends would ask where the music was coming from when I used my old DV1000. I felt that the sound was very rich for such a small system. I find the DV6 to have a much shallower, smaller sound that finds trouble filling a bedroom. For this reason, I drop the DV6 to four stars.
Also, the DV6 doesn’t come with recovery disks. You need 3 DVD+R or -R (not RW) disks to create your own.
Overall, I really enjoy this computer, and probably will continue to enjoy it for another 5 to 7 years until RAM is in petabytes and laptops cook dinners. If I had to do it again I would still choose it over an Acer, Asus, Dell, Mac, or Sony.
December 23rd, 2009 at 5:33 am
Interestingly enough, the laptop itself seems to suit my purposes. We needed an upgrade and found the features on this to be what we wanted. We experienced some real surprises with windows 7 though. It seems some hardware and software are not supported by windows 7 yet. The 1st surprise was when I tried to load my Kodak software.
It loaded but failed to run. Additionally it completely blew away access to my drive E:. No matter what I tried, nothing worked. Well after several frustrating hours I somehow (doubt if I could ever recreate) corrupted my recently loaded MS Office 2007. No matter what program I tried to load, Word came up. Even windows explorer! Completely frustated I made the call…to India. The support was fantastic, of course I had to re-set everything to factory settings thereby losing anything I added. But it was up and running again.
Took awhile but I was able to load my MS Office again. Then time to do some work, hmmmmmm seems my printer isn’t supported either,and my iPod probably isn’t either.
My suggestion is that before you buy, check your hardware and software to ensure it is supported. The laptop itself and the support appear to be good. But then again it’s still early.
December 23rd, 2009 at 5:58 am
First impressions: Big, shiny and deep black except the mirror-like touchpad and mouse buttons. Having to get used to the keyboard as the letters are a bit more to the left of the touchpad due to the numeric key pad. But everything is working well and it’s fast!
July 12th, 2010 at 11:11 am
I do think diferrent because my friends use another company .It’s comfortable and save prices.But next laptop battery I can consider this this laptop battery for which you present.Thank!!!