Comment on HP Pavilion dm1-4010us Entertainment PC – Gray by steinbal.
Everything I wanted it to be,
I got this HP to replace my Toshiba 13.3″ netbook that finally BSOD’d after 3 years. I was very happy with my Toshiba and honestly afraid I wouldn’t like this HP, but it was time for an upgrade. My previous lappy before the Toshiba was an HP DV(don’t remember what the numbers were!) and I have a HP desktop, so I’m familiar with the brand and durability.
A few things: I mainly use this computer for the internet. I almost always have 2 browsers open with 4-5 tabs open in each of them (I play a lot of those stupid flash games on facebook and may have 4 up at once without any issues) and have never had lagging, except when my comcast was wigging out. I watch a lot of youtube and have only once experienced a choppy video, after which my comcast promptly went down for 3 hours (pretty sure the computer didn’t have anything to do with that!). I have installed Photoshop CS3 (I know, I’m outdated, but that program is freaking expensive!) and used it almost daily since getting my computer a couple weeks ago– no issues with that either.
So, the pros:
1. Quiet as can be. I haven’t heard the fan or hard drive once.
2. Audio is incredible. Thank you Dr. Dre.
3. Super fast everything.
4. Full sized keyboard is comfortable and has a solid inlay so little nitty gritty things can’t get down there easily. It took me literally 2 seconds to get the feel of the keyboard.
5. Screen is more than big enough (I thought it might seem too small– the 10″ acer/asus ones are just teeeeny to me and I wondered if the extra inch would really make a difference– well it does.)
6. Very sturdy connection between screen and main unit
7. Very light/portable & amazing battery life. The estimate says 9.5- I’m getting closer to 11 hours (I keep my brightness at the minimum).
8. Sturdy power cord connection.
the cons:
1. It is a finger-oil magnet. Not so much finger prints, but rather little finger pad shapes. I gave up trying to deal with that and now just ignore the back of my screen. I’m thinking of getting some vinyl design thing to put on the back of the computer to combat this issue.
2. “Gray” is a poor description (more the fault of Amazon than the computer, though)– on the Amazon page, in the HP description and on the HP site, it says “Finish: HP Imprint finish in charcoal” — I would say that’s a lot closer to correct. It’s not quite black, but nowhere near gray.
3. HP likes to give you a lot of extra crap software that you either don’t need or don’t want. I still haven’t figured out how to turn some of it off, and I’m not sure I ever will. All I can suggest is closing everything out when you start the computer.
4. The webcam isn’t fantastic. I don’t know how it can be called “truevision HD” when the picture looks like my webcam from 2005.
If I could do a 4.5 review I would, but I’ve decided to round up.
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