Customer Reviews

HP Pavilion zt3380us Laptop (1.70 GHz Pentium M (Centrino), 512 MB RAM, 60 GB Hard Drive, DVD+RW/CD-RW Drive)

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Bought this laptop for school and have used it a week. I'm very happy overall with this product. The display is great with no dead pixels and a fairly even brightness. The Centrino processor works great and gets a strong signal. The following are the few minor cons with this system.

4200rpm drive is too slow. This thing chugs and chugs when trying to access data. For this price, 5400rpm should be standard. The cd-rom drive works fine, but when ripping music, I've experienced inconsistant speeds. Sometimes it'll read at 14x and other times it won't get over about 6x. I've also experienced the same issue as others with my fingers catching the keys when I type fast. This especially happens with the U key, where I'm hitting J, then my finger snags on the U key when I depress J. I know this sounds strange, but it's the only laptop I've experienced this with. Also, I like the touchpad, but I wish they'd used the model that's installed in Compaqs that has the divider between the touchpad and scrollpad. I find that if I'm not paying attention, my finger wanders onto the scrollpad and the mouse pointer stops moving (even worse the window I'm viewing scrolls around- annoying). Also, like most laptops, the sound is really flat and "tinny".

All of these observations are minor though, and overall I'm very happy with this machine, and feel it's worth the investment. While the drive is slow, 80gb is a nice size. While I sometimes snag the keys, the overall responsiveness is great and I can type much faster. The scrollpad thing on the touchpad mouse is very convenient. The sound is typical for most laptops, and is fine for windows sounds. If you use decent headphones, music sounds great. Overall, this is a really good machine and a sound purchase.

i'm very happy with the notebook's performance, size, ease of use, and wireless connection. burning dvd's is a little slow, and it doesn't come with dvd burning software, but comes with a dvd +rw drive. i had a sony vaio, and this is a million times better.