Customer Reviews

HP Pavilion zd8060us Laptop

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Criticizing the battery life or the weight on the HP Pavilion is lame, because that is not what it is intended on emphasizing. This product is made to host Microsoft Windows Media Center Edition, and should be treated that way. It isn't the most mobile of all notebooks, but it shouldn't be used that way. The best purpose for the notebook side to it is so you can move it from room to room in your house and still access your data and entertainment, weather in the living room or the work desk. Sure the battery is only good for a single DVD movie, but thats all it needs. Using this as a computer to take to school every day or work on a constant basis is just not practical. But if you want a computer you can use around the house, this is the one for you.

Now, this is an amazing product. Made by HP, it is built will powerful features, including a wonderful graphics card capable of creating the most imersive gaming effects and DVD video. It is capable of being at a resolution of 1680 x 1050. Now this is a 17" widescreen. Thats practically twice as good as a HDTV, especially if you are sitting only a foot away from the screen. You will never hear of 'Pixilation' on this screen. There has been no problem for my keyboard or mouse, or anything for that matter, and ive had mine for about 4 months. It has built in Wireless so you can do a little surfing the web from the back deck on a tuesday afternoon, and a memory card reader built in for camera picture transfer. Now how many Notebooks have that? Not all, thats for sure.

But this is a Media Center. It comes with a Remote Control that will allow you to control your media from a distance. And get this. It can even act as a TV, DVD player, Radio, Music and Video player. Yes, I said TV. The HP can watch tv and record tv and even write the tv episodes to DVD. THe included TV tuner will allow you to use a TV as the screen as well, while you watch one show and record another from another channell. Thats a Media Center. And I found it even easier than my TIVO, which I never use anymore. And with available accessories, you can even have a multichannel shoundcard and watch movies with 5.1 surround sound and virtual HD TV All through your Computer. Now would someone even want to take this thing in a subway? I don't.

Now sure it may not be able to last a plane ride to hawaii, but it sure can keep all your memories and entertainment. So if you are looking for the House-Mobile PC, This is the one for you. Worth every penny as well. 100G of storage and .5G of RAM, and a 256MB Video card, your set to go with everything for a long time. One point to make it that it has an extremely fast Pentium 4 HT processer in it, which is like having two processors in it, so it will get rather hot. But it will never overheat, unlike a Dell. And with HP support, which has helped me a ton, regardless of what other people say. I love this Computer, and I bet you will too, as long as you know what you are buying before you buy it.

I bought the zd8060 2 months ago and havent had ANY problems whatsoever with the build quality. This thing IS a beast though. It has a P4 so it runs too hot to actually have it on your lap and only lasts 1.5 hrs on the battery. Its got a beautiful screen and a nice number pad on the right. The mouse pad is a little sketchy at times (cursor just goes wherever it feels like going) but the great thing about that is there's a button right above it so you can disable it (also, the space on the right of the mouse is big enough to use a usb mouse on).

For someone who's actually considering buying this thing, its great for people in a dorm room (limited space) or in the military and goes TDY and will set it up in a room and leave it for weeks or months. For someone who travels a lot or in my case just lazy (I hate dragging it from room to room with the monster power cable) and wont EVER use the Media Center/TV tuner functions it comes with, its an absolute waste. If you want something that wont be moved at all get a desktop, its less than half the price.

I give it 4 stars because it is a good computer. The price for the logic (limited mobility laptop) and the fact that after 2 months, I went ahead and ordered an IBM thats half the weight, 4x the battery life and doesnt create enough heat to cook my lap are why it doesnt get 5 stars.

Pros: nice bright screen, latest XP media center Operating system, number pad, ports and card readers for just about everything, good speakers.

Cons: It's a BEAST to carry around, heat, battery consumption, sketchy mouse, lack of bluetooth, price.

1) Poor quality material

2) Very heavy

3) Too much of heat produced

4) Tooooooo Pricy

5) Just 512MB RAM for such high price?

I have a 16-month old HP-Pavilion ZE55..US laptop (pentium chip, 512MB ram) that I'm sending back for the second time because of problems with the keyboard. In the first incident, the "P"-key popped loose. This time, "R"-key has popped loose while the "N" and "M"-keys have become illegible. Computer keyboards (be they desktops or laptops) last and last and last... which explains my disappointment with my Pavilion (especially because it will cost me real money to have the R, N, M keys fixed. [The hard-drive, the monitor, the CPU and the wireless "G"-card are performing very well, though.]