HP Pavilion DV9646 review
The HP DV9646 laptop sports a 17 inch widescreen display, a quality design and a sleek, stylish finish.
The screen is slim but a high gloss finish on it makes it hard to see in high ambient light areas or even a lamp behind you reflects and makes viewing awkward. The viewing angle is rather slim so you need to be straight in front of it to view the screen properly.
It is based around media center, it comes with trial versions of Word 07 and associated packages, Norton is a 60 day trial.
There are no recovery discs so you’ll have to burn them yourself using the supplied software. It comes with Vista Premium and HP’s own software Quickplay which is similar to windows media player but it is a more powerful and useful program.
The laptop comes supplied with a remote that works well with most software, giving you some basic functions for listening to your music or playing video’s.
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The specs on the HP Pavilion DV9646:
- Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium 32-bit
- AMD Turion™ 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-58
- 2048 MB (2 x 1024 MB)
- 160 GB SATA Hard Disk Drive 5400 rpm
- 17″ WXGA+ High Definition BrightView Widescreen
- NVIDIA® GeForce™ 8400M GS
- Up to 895 MB total graphics memory with 128 MB
- dedicated
- IEEE 1394 FireWire® Interface
- Lightscribe Super Multi DVD Writer (+/-R +/-RW) with
- Double Layer support
- Bluetooth® wireless networking
- 802.11 pre-n
- HP Mobile Remote Control
- HP Pavilion WebCam with stereo Integrated
- Microphones
- 5-in-1 integrated Digital Media Reader for Secure
- Digital cards, MultiMedia cards, Memory Stick,
- Memory Stick Pro, or xD Picture cards
Hi,
I bought one of these and have to say overall its a good laptop but there have been some issues such as the webcam which seems to have a mind of its own at times.
But I have found the fix, if you make sure to shutdown the webcam software properly every time you use it then it should work again the next time you try.