HP Pavilion DV7-3080US 17.3-Inch Espresso Laptop - Up to 4.5 Hours of Battery Life (Windows 7 Home Premium)

by HP

Product Details

• Item Weight: 5 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 11.4 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B002ONCBD0
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• Item model number: VM187UA#ABA
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,637 in Computers & Accessories (See Top 100 in Computers & Accessories)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 25, 2009

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

IDEAL FOR Replacing a desktop PC and entertainment. Edit and enjoy photos and high-definition videos using the large widescreen display, plus listen to music in premium audio and play games. Work in multiple applications at the same time and count on fast data entry with the numeric keypad.

SPECIFICATIONS

Processor 1.60GHz Intel® Core™ i7-720QM Processor Operating System Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium 64-bit Memory (RAM) 6GB DDR3 Display 17.3" Diagonal HD+ High-Definition HP LED BrightView Widescreen Display (1600 x 900) Hard Drive 500GB (7200RPM) SATA Optical Drive LightScribe Blu-ray ROM with SuperMulti DVD±R/RW Double Layer Wireless Intel WiFi Link 5100AGN; Bluetooth® wireless technology Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M (NB10P GE) discrete 1024MB up to 2815MB total graphics memory with 1024MB dedicated Battery 8-cell Lithium-Ion Battery; Up to 4.5 hours battery life* Weight & Dimensions (w x d x h) 7.74lbs; 16.2" x 10.9" x 1.37"/1.70"

FEATURES

LightScribe Technology Burn labels directly onto CDs and DVDs Blu-ray Disc Player Watch high-definition Blu-ray DVDs using your PC Built-in HP Webcam Video chat live Mobile Remote Control music and videos easily from across the room 5-in-1 Digital Media Reader Transfer photos from digital cameras without using cables INCLUDED

Remote Control

Product Description

For those who want an all-in-one performance notebook with rich multimedia features, the HP Pavilion dv7 Entertainment series delivers desktop-replacement performance that looks as great as it runs. Powered by the latest processor and graphics technologies, it delivers optimal mobile performance to support your lifestyle. Play ultra-sharp Blu-ray films with the Blu-ray drive. Enjoy full-screen viewing of HD TV and movies with the large 16:9 17.3-Inch diagonal display. Chat face to face with the HP Webcam and add fun special effects. HP Triple Bass Reflex Subwoofer amplifiers put out 12W total while supporting a full range of treble and bass frequencies. Enter data quickly with the separate numeric keypad. Create personalized, silkscreen-quality DVD and CD labels with LightScribe.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fast Laptop!, January 3, 2010

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Ivan Blomberg (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: HP Pavilion DV7-3080US 17.3-Inch Espresso Laptop - Up to 4.5 Hours of Battery Life (Windows 7 Home Premium) (Personal Computers)

I have owened this laptop for over a month now. Its extremely quick and never lags no matter what I have open. I can burn a dvd, download a large file, and play a game all at the same time. It will run crysis well at full resolution as well as modern warfare 2. I have read bad revews about the display and honestly its not bad. I think it may be slightly different from the dells because of the type of glossy film they use. Remember this is susposed to be an entertainment pc and for that it is AWSOME. I can watch movies via hdmi in full 1080, just simply plug it in and your ready to go. Battery life is decent for a computer with a quad core. Intel uses turbo boost and I think this helps to keep power down a bit. The touch controls at the top of the keyboard work great and I like them alot. Remember this is a quad core 1.6ghz but with turbo boost it will go up to 2.8ghz. Shows up as 8 cores total. Very efficient processor. Hp's bloatware is really not that bad either. Audio is quite good. The speakers on this laptop sound great and get decent volume as well. Wireless n works great and is very fast. Fan is fairly quiet and it runs very cool.... if its on ur lap it will run hotter but still much cooler then many dual core laptops i have used. Keyboard has a great feel and is quiet. Mouse pad buttons feel great and people seem to complain about the glossy finish on the pad but i think it feels good and works well. The scroll bar on the right of the mousepad also works awsome. Also big plus this has a second drive bay so you could add a solid state boot drive or a standard drive for storage if you like. I think you have to buy a hard drive cradle or something but its a great added bonus. Also this fits well in the Wenger, SwissGear 17 inch back pack.

A few things i dont like is that the power brick is really large, wish it had a lit keybord although this is really not a problem and the screen is really bright so its easy to see the keys plus it uses slightly less power without it. Glossy finish attracts finger prints like crazy but its still pretty. Hp's media smart software could use some work , it takes a long time to open and too much bling just for browsing photos. I made windows picture viewer my default viewer to solve this. I do wish it was full 1080 but its close and i dont think its a big enough difference to notice... blue ray movies still look great!. ... all in all great computer ... makes a great desktop replacement. All the negatives i stated are minor. I very much recommend this laptop. The prices are dropping as well and its just becoming more affordable.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Save your Money & Don't buy Blu-Ray, January 9, 2010

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Avid Reader (Coatesville, PA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: HP Pavilion DV7-3080US 17.3-Inch Espresso Laptop - Up to 4.5 Hours of Battery Life (Windows 7 Home Premium) (Personal Computers)

Was a loyal HP customer, but not anymore.

We have two HP DV7's in our household. One was purchased Nov 2008 from Circuit City, the other was purchased as a customized laptop directy from HP in March 2009. Both have BluRay players, but the Circuit City laptop plays through Media Player and the customized laptop plays through MediaSmart. With both players, we have noticed a tendancy of the BluRays to lockup, but with the new coding now on the BluRay disks, the problem has become much worse.

Also downloading the new software and getting the Blu-Rays to play the newer discs is not intuitive and HP support in a word "Sucks". Went to the HP website for the downloads and it is not as straight forward as it should be.

For one thing, don't click the update now button when it pops up within the media players. It will take you into a black hole. For MediaSmart go into tools and select the update on the Update tab. I am not sure where my husband went to download the updates into Media Player.

After the updates where installed on the customized laptop, the BluRays would play just fine until it was connected via HDMI to our HD TV. There we received picture, but no sound. We went to tech support on that one. Their basic response was that the coding on the discs prevented them from being played with the HD TV connected, so if that was the only thing we used the computers for then we had nothing but $1,000+ paperweights.

Finally without the help of Tech Support, we were able to get the picture on the HD TV with sound once we hooked up laptop speakers to the computer and played the sound from the computer. But the picture quality is no longer what it once was.

This brings up another problem that we have with the headphone jacks. If you research on the web, you will find that this is quite prevalent with HPs. The connection within the computer is not secured very well and you have basically three options in order to use the headphone jacks. 1) physically hold the jack about 1/2 way in to get sound. 2)lightly coat the jack connection with oil before plugging in. Or 3) have the laptop opened up and the connections soldered down.

Other than these flaws, the computers work as advertised. But there are also other computers out there that do the same for less money.

10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great, December 8, 2009

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John Mcghee - See all my reviews
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This review is from: HP Pavilion DV7-3080US 17.3-Inch Espresso Laptop - Up to 4.5 Hours of Battery Life (Windows 7 Home Premium) (Personal Computers)

Great laptop. Does everything I want exceptionaly well. I've owned numerous computers
(both laptop and desktops, Apples and PCs), and this one is the best. The only minor
negative is I wish the ac input was in the rear.

John