HP (Hewlett-Packard) Pavilion dv6205us Notebook

bang for the buck

Posted Apr 30, 2007 - this laptop is really a good value for what I paid (granted, I bought it a week ago with a $200 rebate).and added 2 Gb ram to it and it rocks else it was a bummer Finish on outside of notebook is beautiful, but it shows fingerprints This is an entertainment edition, so there are music controls right by the speakers...great for when you're listening to music while multi-tasking (you don't have to open media player to change songs or to mute). Comes with headphones and a remote.

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Great laptop for basic home use

Posted Apr 20, 2007 - I purchased this laptop a few days back, and I must say that for the price I paid, it is really good. It has a 15.4" wide screen, a DVD Read-Write drive and built-in wireless capability. What else could you ask for basic home use? The only downside is the fact that it comes with a meager 512 MB of memory, which, with Windows Vista Basic, is not sufficient at all. It's just painfully slow. However, I purchased an additional 1 GB & installed it (took me about 5 min). The laptop now runs pretty fast. I am happy. All in all, this overall build quality of this laptop is also very good & I highly recommend it.

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HP (Hewlett-Packard) Pavilion dv6205us Notebook

Posted Apr 8, 2007 - I researched for a solid week before I bought this laptop. I read a lot of positives and a lot of negatives. So far, I'm not convinced that the people with the negatives bought the same laptop! I had heard there is a big problem with these pavilions making a buzzing noise. Hmmm. This thing is so quiet you can't even tell it's running half the time. Maybe I just got lucky. I heard it was heavy. It's 6 pounds people! Go put a CPU, monitor, and keyboard into a box...now thats heavy. I think this is sized perfectly. Small and light enough for on the go travel but large enough to have a really nice widescreen display. Other reviews mentioned how bad Vista is as an OS. I was a big fan of XP, but I'm liking Vista a lot as well. The 512MB is ever so slightly on the slow side, especially when you have multiple programs running, but its not really that bad. If I had to do it all over again I would probably go for 1GB

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Nice for the price

Posted Apr 12, 2007 - This is an attractive looking laptop. The 512MB of RAM is barely adequate to run Vista however. The screen is bright and the touchpad mouse is easy to operate. It does come with a DVD burner which is less common in this price range. Add at least another 512MB ram and it is a very capable machine.

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HP Pavilion dv6205us Notebook

Posted Mar 20, 2007 - I bought this because I found a good deal on it. I was concerned about it being configured with 512M of memory and Windows Vista, as it turns out my concerns were valid. It is slow and requires either a downgrade in OS (to XP or earlier) or an upgrade in memory (to 1G or higher). My understanding is that either one of these will make it a pretty nice laptop. I plan on upgrading my memory but have not done so yet. I am also looking into removing unnecessary applications/processes to free up available memory. As it stands right now, it is noticeably slower than my other laptop, a 1.4GHz celeron running XP. Slow performance aside, there are other things about the laptop that may help you decide if it is right for you. It is attractive and appears well built – I expect it to last a long time if not abused too bad. It has a 15.4” WXGA brightview screen which looks great. There are media control buttons right above the keyboard which allows you to control music directly, without using an application. Additional features include a card reader (SD, MS/Pro, MMC, XD), 8xDVD+-R/RW DL drive, 80G hard drive, T2060 dual core 1.6GHz CPU, built in wireless, 6 cell battery, and HP quickplay mode (allows you to use the laptop as a dvd player without booting to windows) with remote control. I/O ports include 3 USB ports, 1 1394 port, 1 expresscard slot, modem, S-video out jack, external monitor port (VGA), expansion port 3, RJ-45 jack, audio in (mic), and audio out (headphone). All in all, my initial impressions are positive for this laptop, I would recommend it if you have or are willing to buy at least an extra 512M of memory (or if you can and are willing to downgrade the OS).

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HP Pavilion dv6205us Notebook

Posted Apr 9, 2007 - This laptop's performance was average, good for $ 600. What I really don't like about this laptop is that the laptop is heavy (to my comparison to my sister's brand new HP laptop that cost $1,500), small memory, and the displyed glared to much in light. What was great about this laptop was that it was zooming fast! It was really fast, didn't freeze, responsed very quickly. What the best thing was that the computer had high quality Altec Lansing speakers which blew me away! Overall, I will recommend this laptop to everyone I know and I recommend this laptop if you aren't a frequent traveler, if you are, you should buy a lighter one.

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Poor Performance

Posted Mar 5, 2007 - I picked this laptop up last week as a lease and I have been disappointed since the first boot. It came with Windows Vista Basic loaded. The performance is AWFUL with the default configuration. I can't remember having a new computer respond so poorly, or having to wait for simple processes to complete so that I could move a cursor or type. It responds like a P133 running XP Pro. It is a minimum configuration for the OS, and it barely runs with Vista. I had to shut down numerous processes and start up programs just to make using it tolerable. I would not recommend this laptop to anyone unless they are planning to install another Operating System, or plan a significant RAM upgrade. I've read some posts on message boards that suggest that this machine screams with XP installed, for what that's worth. I'm going to return mine at the end of the month and pick up something else.

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good laptop

Posted Apr 9, 2007 - I researched for a solid week before I bought this laptop. I read a lot of positives and a lot of negatives. So far, I'm not convinced that the people with the negatives bought the same laptop! I had heard there is a big problem with these pavilions making a buzzing noise. Hmmm. This thing is so quiet you can't even tell it's running half the time. Maybe I just got lucky. I heard it was heavy. It's 6 pounds people! Go put a CPU, monitor, and keyboard into a box...now thats heavy. I think this issized perfectly. Small and light enough for on the go travel but large enough to have a really nice widescreen display. Other reviews mentioned how bad Vista is as an OS. I was a big fan of XP, but I'm liking Vista a lot as well. The 512MB is ever so slightly on the slow side, especially when you have multiple programs running, but its not really that bad. If I had to do it all over again I would probably go for 1GB.

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Recommend dv6205us

Posted Apr 7, 2007 - I upgraded adding 512 today using 719ms-719=M=Micron 512mb ddr2 pc4200 sodimm at $49.95 from memorystock.com. This upgrade changed my base rating of 2.0 to 3.1 and now this Pavilion dv6205us sails. I highly recommend the upgrade. The computer is now awesome. VE

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Very Nice

Posted Apr 12, 2007 - It is my first laptop from HP that i buy, the price i paid was realy amazing(550), the design is perfect, well built, little bit slow on games, probably it need memory uprgrade, but it has everyhting else you need, from dvd burner to 15 inch monitor, to usb 2, firewire,remote control...BUY IT, BUY IT, it's a good investment.

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Media Center Laptop

Posted Apr 23, 2007 - It is good for internet surfing laptop and media center laptop.It comes with remote control and it is very convenient function on it. I have just turn on the movie and put the laptop far from me and watch it, it is so awesome. Also play my music with external speakers perfectly.Its design and finish is pretty good.Definetely needs more ram and faster processor if you need more job, other than this it is awesome. Speakers are nice and voice is clear.I don't see any weakness other than this and it is decent laptop as that price.

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HP dv6205us is great.... with some work!

Posted Apr 17, 2007 - If you plan on using this PC with VISTA upgrade the memory!!! If you do not upgrade the memory the computer seems to be slower than a Pentium 3 in Windows ME. I swapped the one 512MB stick for 2 x 1GB DDR2 667Mhz PC2-5300 SODIMM sticks of Kingston ValueRAM. Now the laptop works great. Also, unistall any HP software you do not plan to use or reinstall a fresh copy of windows. I also have a HP dv2000t laptop and both are built very well!

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HP Pavilion dv6205us Notebook

Posted Apr 12, 2007 - good deal on it. I was concerned about it being configured with 512M of memory and Windows Vista, as it turns out my concerns were valid. It is slow and requires either a downgrade in OS (to XP or earlier) or an upgrade in memory (to 1G or higher). My understanding is that either one of these will make it a pretty nice laptop. I plan on upgrading my memory but have not done so yet. I am also looking into removing unnecessary applications/processes to free up available memory. As it stands right now, it is noticeably slower than my other laptop, a 1.4GHz celeron running XP. Slow performance aside, there are other things about the laptop that may help you decide if it is right for you. It is attractive and appears well built – I expect it to last a long time if not abused too bad. It has a 15.4" WXGA brightview screen which looks great.

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Solid Laptop!

Posted May 11, 2007 - This laptop is on the bottom line of the dual core DV6000T series. I bought it $500 AR at circuit city and put 2GB Ram on it. And I also replaced the pre-loaded Vista Basic with XP Pro. It runs like a charm, except that (1) windows audio service stops sometime when coming out of standby; (2) windows zero wireless service stops sometime when coming out of standby; (3) built-in microphone cannot pick up my voice loud enough. But it's well worth what I paid for!

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Poke In The Box

Posted Aug 27, 2007 - Anyone looking at HP notebook reviews will quickly note that the biggest problem consumers find is that all too many HP units come with a 512mb memory module which is not efficient enough to properly handle the Microsoft Vista Operating System. You would think that someone at HP would have enough savvy to take the memory upgrading burden off the consumer so that the out-of-the-box product is a good running machine rather than a poke in the box.

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