HP Pavilion ZT1195 Notebook (1.5GHz Intel Pentium IIII, 512MB RAM, 40GB Hard Drive)

by HP

Product Details

• Item Weight: 7 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 7 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000066SSY
• Item model number: F3395H
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #20,889 in Computers & Accessories (See Top 100 in Computers & Accessories)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 29, 2002

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Notebook, August 28, 2002

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akobet "akobet" (CT, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: HP Pavilion ZT1195 Notebook (1.5GHz Intel Pentium IIII, 512MB RAM, 40GB Hard Drive) (Personal Computers)

For the amount of cons I have, you'd think I hate this notebook. Quite the opposite. This is my third notebook, (fourth if you count a 286 laptop), all different brands, and by far this is my favorite notebook computer.

Pros: Just look at the feature list as this notebook has just about everything you want. Great keyboard. Impressive screen resolution. Good battery life. Standby really works. DVD CD-RW Playback is great. Fast. Ok for multi-media editing.

Cons: Cosmetic Lights look cool for about 5 minutes. Surprised by no InfraRed - that's my biggest complaint as I really need to backup my Nokia phone thru an IR port. No floppy - didn't notice for a week. Screen view angles - must view screen head-on. Probably typical of notebooks, but I had to buy a new IEEE 1394 cable as the port size is 4 pin, not 6 pin like a desktop. Fair speaker quality. WiFi cuts battery life in half. WiFi range is about 1/2 that of an external USB Linksys adapter. I turn on & off WiFi button with USB plugging in - too close together. Big and heavey computer, this is no toy. Wish it was XP Professional. Built in mic is poor, certainly can't use speech recognition. Included non premium version of MusicMatch software asks you for a handout everytime you try and close the program.

I'd buy it again, aside from missing IR, no regrets.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not impressed with this purchase, August 30, 2002

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Dallas "dallasrpi" (Troy, NY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: HP Pavilion ZT1195 Notebook (1.5GHz Intel Pentium IIII, 512MB RAM, 40GB Hard Drive) (Personal Computers)

When looking for a nice laptop this seemed to have everything I needed: great screen resolution, fast processor, huge hard drive, alot of RAM, CDR/DVD combo, wireless and relatively light and cheap and it looks pretty nice to boot.

All that is great but...this thing has crashed constantly!Device Driver errors with the graphics card especially. My hard drive appears corrupt as well(Im constantly getting errors when i run chkdsk), and my dvd/cdrom is acting flaky, it picks up the disc about 70% of the time(i have to keep reinserting the disc and yes i tried many discs and cleaning the unit). I bought this unit only 2 months ago! I highly recommend installing VIA's 4 in 1 update, helped with the graphics issue somewhat, but over all the system is not stable. Dell and Sony laptops i have owned may have not given me everythiing i needed, but they were solid.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Notebook, August 28, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: HP Pavilion ZT1195 Notebook (1.5GHz Intel Pentium IIII, 512MB RAM, 40GB Hard Drive) (Personal Computers)

For the amount of cons I have, you'd think I hate this notebook. Quite the opposite. This is my third notebook, (fourth if you count a 286 laptop), all different brands, and by far this is my favorite notebook computer.

Pros: Just look at the feature list as this notebook has just about everything you want. Great keyboard. Impressive screen resolution. Good battery life. Standby really works. DVD CD-RW Playback is great. Fast. Ok for multi-media editing.

Cons: Cosmetic Lights look cool for about 5 minutes. Surprised by no InfraRed - that's my biggest complaint as I really need to backup my Nokia phone thru an IR port. No floppy - didn't notice for a week. Screen view angles - must view screen head-on. Probably typical of notebooks, but I had to buy a new IEEE 1394 cable as the port size is 4 pin, not 6 pin like a desktop. Fair speaker quality. WiFi cuts battery life in half. WiFi range is about 1/2 that of an external USB Linksys adapter. I turn on & off WiFi button with USB plugging in - too close together. Big and heavey computer, this is no toy. Wish it was XP Professional. Built in mic is poor, certainly can't use speech recognition. Included non premium version of MusicMatch software asks you for a handout everytime you try and close the program.

I'd buy it again, aside from missing IR, no regrets.