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knight0334 · Rated XXX

Well... heres my two week review:

Am quite happy with new HP DV6810US.

Turion X2 TL-60 2.0ghz
3GB DDRII PC5300
GeForce Go7150M shared graphics. (set at 128mb in BIOS)

Even though Vista is a RAM w#0R3 - it runs quite fine if you keep your applications to a minimum. Of the 3GB of RAM equipped, about 700mb is left after Vista settles to the desktop. Granted, there are about 100-200MB of HP and other programs running that I haven't trimmed yet - it still has yet to justify the over 2GB that Vista uses. ...plain and simple - no operating system needs to use anything more than 100mb of RAM.

Display: The onboard nVidia graphics perform quite well. Better than I expected really.. I downloaded and installed Guild Wars and then logged into a busy town that usually makes my desktop studder some. I was ready for some laggy 4-20fps movements - but to my surprise nearly all movements were fluid and smooth(couple exceptions). I didn't play around much further due to not having a mouse handy.

Sound: For a laptop - its rather decent. The Altec Lansing speakers sound good. One thing that does concern me is - the volume max's out rather low. Sometimes with all settings set to max, its difficult to hear the lappy over typical TV volumes.

The touchpad is relatively large and easy to get an extra finger on it - which messes with cursor movements.