HP Pavilion DV9730US 17.0" Entertainment Laptop Radiance

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful: 4.0 out of 5 stars Good value with typical software bloat, 11 March 2008 By K. White "IT Pro" (New York) - all my reviews (REAL NAME) I have the HP d9740us to your local dealer. What initially attracted me to this laptop was the blu-ray drive and 17 "screen. Throw in the HDMI connection, and you have a winner. Read what is in the box, because you just about everything you need, including 2 remotes a TV tuner, antenna and cable. I do not know how Vista, but I am like that, as it seems that the drivers for this laptop might not easily accessible by HP for Windows XP. I am also not a fan of HP Quickplay, but it does. Caution newer Word Blu-ray discs may not play. I could not get to play Spiderman 3, but on all other CDs played very well. Connect my laptop this big-screen TV is a great experience. The quality of the blu-ray is amazing, and with the remote control makes it easy to use a laptop. The right side of the shift key is small, but with a full-size keyboard and numeric keyboard is very handy. The DVD touchpad is also good to have. If you have an earlier version of Quick Play you were able to play without booting that DVDs no longer possible. I do not understand how the placement of the power cord socket, as I believe it leads to problems when it comes to the side, rather than the back, in fact, there are no ports on the back side, everything on the sides. Built-speakers are ok not spectacular. All in all, you get a lot for your dollar, and I can recommend this laptop high.

Product Description:

Balance need for your productivity with great multimedia performance with the HP Pavilion dv9730us Notebook PC, with an amazingly bright, 17-inch wide-screen display Bright View - ideal for multi-document between windows and watching movies in their native aspect ratio. Enjoy movies or music in seconds with the external DVD or music keys to start HP Quickplay (bypasses the boot process). Control playback settings from up to 10 meters away with the included remote control, the transactions are conveniently located in the Express Card slot. It also has an integrated 1.3-megapixel webcam (and integrated microphone), you can simply VoIP via video-conferencing and video chat chats. The stylish laptop also a high-gloss, durable HP Imprint finish with the Radiance pattern of concentric waves, as well as a subtle blue backlit media control panel, responds to the slightest touch.

Optimized for mobile services, it's powered by the 2.2 GHz AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-64 dual-core processor, the 64-bit computing capabilities and higher throughput for the simultaneous computing tasks. You can easily burn your home video productions on DVD for friends and family with a dual-layer, multi-format DVD / CD-burner, which also LightScribe technology for personalized silkscreen-quality, laser-etched disc labels. Other hardware features include an extra-large 250-GB hard drive, 3 GB of RAM installed (4 GB maximum), an integrated Nvidia GeForce Go 7150M-video and graphics card with up to 799 MB of graphics memory allocated a total, quad-mode Wi -- Fi LAN (technologies such as 802.11), and multi-format memory card reader.

The laptop also comes preinstalled with Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium, all of the Windows Media Center capabilities for turning your PC into an all-in-one home entertainment center. In addition, easy to play your DVD movies and managing your digital audio library, you can record and watch your favorite TV shows (including HDTV). Vista also integrates new tools in search of the entire operating system, which includes new parental control features, and offers new tools that can warn of impending hardware failures.