Customer Reviews

HP Pavilion zd7010us Laptop (2.66-GHz Pentium 4, 512 MB RAM, 60 GB Hard Drive, DVD/CD-RW Drive)

5 star:		(9)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(6)

 

 

Pros: 1) Big Screen is great(obviously) 2) Keyboard has nice clicky feel. 3) 4 USB 2.0 ports is never too many 4) Nice overall design and looks 5) Sound from Harmon/Kardon speakers is excellent and rich 6) Built-in WiFi reception is exceptional and very convenient 7) Easy to change/upgrade memory and hard drive with simple access doors(great design) 8) Scrolling feature on trackpad works very well 9) I don't use my desktop anymore.

Cons: 1) Silver laptop finish scratches off easily 2) No Serial port 3) Screen can be brighter, more vivid and have better control 4) Requires 120w. Currently computer cannot be powered on airplanes which limits supply power to transformers to 75w. 5) Fragile because of size and weight. 6) Customer phone system support is poor and can be improved. 7) Security slot does not accept new style APC studs. 8) Off-center trackpad location questionable. 9) Does not accept Compact flash cards directly (Accepts a number of other memory cards) 10) Fans are noisy and you really notice how quite it gets when you shut down the machine. 11) Exhaust fans (2 fans) are located at the bottom of the machine and may be blocked if laptop is not placed on a rigid and flat surface when machine is on.

This is an excellent laptop, It is well worth the money.
The Harmon/Kardon Speakers give a crisp clear sound with more bass than any other Laptop speaker i have ever heard before!
The 17" screen is great for playing games, and the GForce FX 5600 w/ 128 MB of ram is excellent on mine!!! The 2.66 Ghz is enough to run any application or game flawlessly. and the thing i like most is how good the touchpad works. Hp has also incorporated a media card reader which unfortunatly does not support the "compact Flash" type cards.

There are a couple of BAD things though that should be seriously considered before buying this laptop!!!
The desktop processor eats up the battery as fast as 1 hour and 45 minutes, of course there are things you can do to extend the life to around 2 hours and 20minutes like dimming the screen, turning off speakers/ WiFi, and using the Nvidia low power feature.

The two Vacumme cleaner fans on the bottom are loud and can be blocked easily, but it does keep the laptop very cool.

But back to the good things, there are 4 USB 2.0 ports and a built-in Firewire port.

This laptop is not what you could consider "ultra portable" but it is usable on an airplane!!! all you need to so is buy an AMP, then you can easily get 300Watts of power from any 12 volt ciggerette lighter plug.

I do not regret buying this laptop at all.

First chief feature of HP z7010us is the extreme graphics it produces. With 64MB shared video memory in collaboration with Nvidia GeForce Graphics Card, you can play the toughest games easily such as "Need For Speed Hot Pursuit 2" or "Max Payne 2" or "Medal of Honor". All in 17" Fullscren. So for boys and girls who like playing heavy-duty games this computer is desirable.

Second main feature, as I see it, is the computers Physique. Even though it is a dense computer, the way it is constructed, makes it look sleek and slim. It really looks very smooth, and the silver & shiny color makes it look majestic. For people who give a heck to the shapes of laptop's this computer looks good.

As to speed of this computer, "Intel Pentium 4 2.66 Ghz" AND "512MB-RAM" will never fail fail you. Run one task and you will get lightning-fast performance. Run two tasks at a time, and still get a good performance. Of course we have A DVD-ROM and CD-RW for watching movies and burning CD's.

One thing that I didn't like about this computer is the time it takes to load fully. When I log in to Windows XP, it takes 1 minute for the computer to load completely. And the more programs you install the more time it will take to load. Previous computer I owned, much slower then this one, took at most 30 seconds to load fully.

One last feature of this computer is it's keyboard. The Hp zd7010us has a numeric keypad to the right of the normal keyboard, so it is easy to enter numbers. People who are interested in a 17" Widescreen laptop's must give this computer a try. You can always exchange!

The HP zd7010us is not for the "light of heart" PC user. First, it is big with the 17 ich screen and heavy (about 9 pounds) and unfort. with the high speed of this unit and the brillent display comes one big problem for portable use. The battery life. If you turn off most everything and are very carefull about the screen (use more contrast and less brightness) and do not access the hard drive to often, you can get maybe an hour of life and that is it. 45 mins is more the normal, so if you have a long plane flight, take a plane adapter or a extra battery or so. So thats the bad stuff.
This thing is amazing at its speed, you rarely will see the hourglass display come on. The screen is great, very bright and clear, much like a desktop hgh end LCD monitor and the 17 inch size is great as you can see a full two pages of info, great for looking at two web pages at once. The sound with the Harmon Kardon speaker system is fantastic, I play "Titanic" on it and it sounded like you were at the movies. The disk access is fast and quite and the Wireless works without a hitch. Also its neat that it comes with a bult in card reader for up to seven different kinds of memory cards so no adapters are ever needed for this one, The keyboard has a excellent feel to it and the keys are well spaced and its nice having a seperate keypad. I found thee mouse touch pad to work very well and smooth, unlike alot of touchpads this one does not skip around. It has a large surface area that doubles as a wrist rest on the unit and the 60 GB hard driveis plenty. I might want to upgrade the memory to 1 GB some day, but in everything I did, the standard memory worked just fine and that involved many very large JPG files from my 6.3 MP camera. Even thou this is a large notebook, it has such a neat modern style that it looks very thin and you do not realize just ow large it is until its on your lap. I hardly ever used my desktop system anymore as this unit is so darn fast and everything just works fine. I have never had to reboot the machine and cannot find a single software problem. I updated mine with Windows Office 2003 and OneNote and that makes a fantastic combination on the unit. Be prepared that if you use this PC in public, you will get alot of people looking over your schoulder and asking "what is that" some think its the 17" Mac, but everyone that looks at it loves it. With the large frame, is helps out in the CPU problem of getting to ot to have in your lap, this one only feels a little bit warm.
I cannot think of anything I would change on this unit (other then better battery life) but then with this speed CPU and screen size, I would not expect the worlds best battery life. I would say that HP has a very clear winner in this model !

This is a great laptop, works like a desktop, a tad loud but bearable. Unfortunately the power jack has come lose and it means I can't power it on anymore. Read more about this problem at: http://www.howtofixcomputers.com/bb/ftopic73146-0-asc-0.html

or http://broken.typepad.com/b/2004/03/compaq_laptop_p.html

From reading forums this problem goes back to 2002 and affects other makes of latop where the DC jack design doesn't take in enough of the power cable leaving it open to user abuse. When I say abuse I don't mean chucking it around, I think catching it a few times is enough to dislodge it from the PCB - sooner or later this will result in a blown motherboard (from what I've read online).

I've not used other HP products but I would advise anybody spending £1000 plus on any laptop to search online for any potential design issues as well as take out an extended cover.

First, it is the noisiest laptop I've ever heard -- possibly noisier than any desktop. This is just inexcusable and I feel that it could have been avoided.

Second, and far worse, it has a defect. It will start spontaneously shutting down for apparently no reason. I have researched online and found other references to it. HP claims that it happens with Photoshop or other intensive applications, but I don't run any. They also claim that it happens only when you have two sticks of RAM installed. I did, so I removed one, tried changing slots, and changing sticks. Nothing worked. It's still shutting down.

Of course, there is a one-year warranty and my unit is 14 months old, so I was told I was out of luck. It will cost $279 plus whatever parts they need (new mainboard??). In addition, their customer service is useless. They know nothing and you can tell they just recite policy and can do nothing else. Sounded like an Indian outsource situation to me.

In short, DO NOT BUY THE zd7010us!! You will avoid a very bad experience.

I hope this is helpful.

Great features, lots of speed and room, big keyboard, 10-key pad and all the ports you would want!

Aside from the weight, this has been a wonderful and reliable laptop for my business. I highly recommend this.

The large and wide sreen works great with presentations, makes viewing spreadsheets and databases easy!

Highly recommend it!

Sincerely,

Heather
Assistant For You!
http://www.assistantforyou.com

Got one of these for my gf. She runs Excel and some specialized db clients at work, so the built-in numeric keypad is great for her. For fun she runs Photoshop Elements and other photography stuff. The big screen is great for Excel but it is not just big, it is stunningly beautiful and bright, perfect for looking at or retouching pictures. The machine has a fast processor, lots of connectors, surprisingly good battery life, and an excellent wi-fi antenna. The only downsides are it's BIG (we refer to it as The Largest Laptop In The World), it has a primitive super heavy power adapter like a brick, and it runs Windows -- I've been running Mac OSX for awhile now and I like it a lot better. But no current Apple laptop can match the speed of this thing (there won't be a G5 laptop for a bit yet), and Apple's 17 " screen, while great too, has nothing on this one.

HP has replaced this model with another that is slightly faster but otherwse identical (I've seen one). believe the model number is nx9500.

This computer rocks. The screen is simply amazing. The keypad is a great feature. I have no complaints whatsoever. Definitely recommended.

I also had the problem of the "blown motherboard". As I read now, this is a common problem with this HP.
I live in Argentina and HP-Argentina won't even try to fix it. I have to buy a new notebook.
Rating: 1 star for the HP Pavilion zd7010 and 1 star for HP customer service. I would rate them with a zero, but Amazon doesn't give that option.