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rbblue
Beaumont, TX

Don't ever buy an hp laptop

1 star rating

a techie
Pros

    Memory Card reader, Nice responsive touchpad

Cons
    Poor quality, Poor performance, Slow processor

SEP
2
2008
This hp tx1000 laptop is easily the worst purchase of my life. The first laptop I bought died after about two weeks and took two months (and about 20 phone calls) before I was finally given a replacement by hp. The replacement hp basically stopped working bit by bit:
  • First I made the mistake of taking out the removable DVD drive. The system never recognized it again.
  • Then the touchscreen started to go beserk and act like someone was repeatedly pressing the top right corner. Very useful for closing all your open applications quickly and unexpectedly. Luckily I figured out how to disable the touchscreen (had to disable the service)
  • One fine day the wireless stopped working. Tried reinstalling the software and every other thing suggested by the HP website. Nothing. Had a USB wireless adapter lying around so started to use that. Very convenient to have this thing poking out my laptop all the time.
  • The swivel monitor mount started to sag, eventually to the point that the monitor hung to one side permanently.
  • Windows Vista used to crash and freeze all the time. I put it down to Vista but I haven't had the same problems with my new Dell M1330 yet. It was also painfully slow and I ended up turning off all the windows prettiness so the interface looks like windows NT.
  • Then, best of all, the machine completely died. Trying to turn it on gives a brief blip of light and that's it. Called HP only to find out that the warranty expired 2 weeks ago. It seems HP machines are designed for a year's use only.



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kpholsey wrote on Jul 8, 2009 at 11:08AM

I have stared a petition about the dead tx series , please everybody sign it so we can start doing something, its not much but its a start!
(http://www.petitiononline.com/deadhptx/petition.html)

deepblue wrote on Mar 18, 2009 at 1:15PM

i got the same problem for the touchscreen going berserk. how did u disable the service..? I don't see the option under tablet pc settings.

mattlant wrote on Oct 8, 2008 at 3:20AM

I have the same issue as well as many others. See www.deadhp.org.

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