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Hewlett Packard HP Pavilion DV9000

Loaded with features, don't like the SATA drive

married, very demanding of my computers, tech geek, willing to pay for quality, linux fen

NOV

2007

This is a good laptop for the money (paid 700 bucks after all rebates).Has 2 bays for hard drives, so you can expand. Screen is huge and nice, comes with a card for cable input. Put LINUX OS (UBUNTU) on it which went smoothly. Be careful though- Windows VISTA does not tolerate other OS being installed- I am running LINUX from USB disk. Two downsides- no paralel port (still using parallel port printer, though you can buy a converter to USB) and just 1GB RAM (who said VISTA runs OK on 1GB?). Overall it was a very good buy for the money. For 1100 bucks though I would have chosen other configuration.... read full review »