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HP Pavilion DV9623CL refurbished laptop

I bought this refurbished laptop at a really good price, $700 USD. It had a lot of features at this price, including two 120gb hard drives, 17" widescreen, bluetooth, media center remote, a decent dual core processor and 2gb of ram.

I had never previously bought a refurbished product before, but it was in pretty much brand new condition and functioned like new. For the price, you would be hard pressed to find something with these sort of specs.

The laptop itself runs smoothly for office applications, and web browsing. Although the graphics card has no dedicated memory, Solidworks runs fine with larger 3D models. There was also no problems running Adobe Creative suite.

Although I would imagine the laptop would not be perfect for high end gaming due to the graphics card being fairly standard, but then again I would just buy a console or a desktop for the price difference anyway.

So in summary:

pro's:
-Excellent laptop for the price
-Excellent for everyday office use and good enough for 3D applications and ram intensive programs such as photoshop.
-Widescreen has heaps of screen real estate
-Media center capabilities and remote
-Decent battery life
-Looks damn good

con's:
-Have not tested with high end games, but most probably not suitable with no dedicated graphics memory
-Vista is a little slow on start up, but once you delete a few programs and clean it up, the laptop is a dream

Overall I would highly recommend this laptop for everyone, except maybe the hardcore gamer. But then again the hardcore gamer would not be looking at a laptop at this price, rather one that is a lot more expensive. I am a transport designer so have used a range of programs at home and at the office and the laptop has been reliable and a real pleasure to have.

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Disappointed with the video card

I recently purchased a similar (but slightly different model) HP Pavilion laptop which performs great for games, and I wanted another one for multiplayer gaming. Unfortunately I couldn't get that model, so I purchased this one instead.

It turns out that the video card in this particular model sucks. Windows Vista reports gaming performance 2.5, as compared to more than 4 in the other machine. Consequentially, gaming graphics aren't nearly as nice on this machine as the one I purchased earlier.

The laptop works fine otherwise, but the graphics really suck for playing games. To avoid such unpleasant surprises, it would be very nice if Amazon included Windows Vista performance metrics in laptop descriptions in the future.

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The HP Pavilion DV9620US Notebook PC delivers with dual headphone jacks and Altec Lansing audio to share your entertainment. Listen without disturbing others with included stereo earbud headphones. Control content from up to 10 feet away with the HP Mobile Remote Control that can be stored in the system ExpressCard slot for convenience. HP QuickPlay provides access to DVDs, videos, photos, music, karaoke, streamed or recorded TV at the touch of a button. Add music to your slide shows or videos with drag-and-drop functionality. This 7.7-pound light notebook delivers desktop-comparable performance with its 17.0" High-Definition BrightView widescreen display and separate numeric keypad. AMD mobile dual-core technology enables use of multiple demanding applications, such as photo editing and DVD burning while playing a game. Create personalized, silkscreen-quality DVD and CD labels with LightScribe Super Multi 8x DVD+-RW with Double Layer Support Chat face-to-face or take pictures and video clips using the HP Webcam and Integrated Microphone. 5-in-1 integrated Digital Media Reader for Secure Digital cards, MultiMedia cards, cards, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro or xD Picture cards 2GB DDR2 System Memory (2 Dimm), Max 4GB 120GB +120GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive 802.11b/g WLAN Integrated 10/100BASE-T Ethernet LAN (RJ-45 connector) Network Card PC Card Slots - 1 ExpressCard/54 Slot (also supports ExpressCard/34) Security - Kensington MicroSaver lock slot, Power-on password&Accepts 3rd party security lock devices Power - 65W AC Adapter&8-Cell Lithium-Ion battery Ports - 4x Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0, 2x Headphone out, microphone-in, VGA (15-pin), TV-Out (S-video), RJ-11 (modem), RJ -45 (LAN), notebook expansion port 3, IEEE 1394 Firewire (4-pin)&Consumer IR Operating System - Windows Vista Home Premium Dimensions - Length 15.16 x Width 11.22 x Height 1.65 Weight - 7.7 pounds

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