HP Pavilion DV6-3180EA 15.6" Laptop (Intel Core i7-720QM 1.6GHz, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD, Bluetooth, Webcam, Win 7 Home Prem 64-bit, Fingerprint reader) Big Discount
Product Description
Severe Over-heating problem!
I've just given this laptop a rating of 2 out of 5 because the specs on paper are really good, but they're all thrown out of the window by the stupidest design problem.. I still love how it looks, the feel, the keyboard, the screen, but sadly it's all ruined by this annoying problem.
The laptop features an i7 processor, which, again, on paper is absolutely AWESOME; quick and can handle LOADS of applications at the same time...BUT: it makes the pc SEVERELY overheat!
I've had the laptop for a year and a half now.. I bought it for 999 euros at the time, thinking it was the best laptop I could go for, so I thought I might as well pay the extra money, because SUPPOSEDLY it would be worth it... Well guess what, it wasn't!
I am REALLY angry at HP for not having considered that such a powerful i7 processor would need proper ventilation. It is clear that they really didn't think about this during the design process: they just stuck an i7 processor on the...
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HP Pavilion DV6-3180EA 15.6" Laptop (Intel Core i7-720QM 1.6GHz, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD, Bluetooth, Webcam, Win 7 Home Prem 64-bit, Fingerprint reader)
ASIN : B00440D928
List Price : £899.99
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This particular HP Pavilion DV6-3180EA 15.6" Laptop (Intel Core i7-720QM 1.6GHz, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD, Bluetooth, Webcam, Win 7 Home Prem 64-bit, Fingerprint reader) functions fantastic. user friendly as well as change. the price for this was much lower as compared to other areas, my partner and i other areas reviewed, rather than far more compare to equivalent product or service.
Category: Core i7
Brand: Hewlett Packard
Rating : 3.2
Review 1 : Severe Over-heating problem!
I've just given this laptop a rating of 2 out of 5 because the specs on paper are really good, but they're all thrown out of the window by the stupidest design problem.. I still love how it looks, the feel, the keyboard, the screen, but sadly it's all ruined by this annoying problem.
The laptop features an i7 processor, which, again, on paper is absolutely AWESOME; quick and can handle LOADS of applications at the same time...BUT: it makes the pc SEVERELY overheat!
I've had the laptop for a year and a half now.. I bought it for 999 euros at the time, thinking it was the best laptop I could go for, so I thought I might as well pay the extra money, because SUPPOSEDLY it would be worth it... Well guess what, it wasn't!
I am REALLY angry at HP for not having considered that such a powerful i7 processor would need proper ventilation. It is clear that they really didn't think about this during the design process: they just stuck an i7 processor on the...
Review 2 : Better with Graphics update
I got this laptop 6 months ago for gaming purposes only. And so far the results are mixed.
It seems powerful enough, I got an extra 4gb to guarantee performance for ram heavy games (like the Total War series) but so far I find it still struggling with some games (Battlefield 2, Empire total war, Grand Theft Auto 4). This may be due to other issues. The laptop gets extremely hot and as the heat vents are on the left and underneath, it is possible that not enough heat gets removed hence performance is affected. This limits using it on your lap to having to place a cushion or other support on your lap to prevent heat burns. Heat vents at the back may have been a more appropriate design. Windows Experience Index rates it at 5.9. Processor=7.0, Ram=7.3 (5.9 for 4gb), Graphics=6.7, Gaming graphics=6.7 and HDD=5.9
Sound
The sound is reasonable with headphones but slightly weak when relying on the speakers alone. I would have expected better...
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