HP Pavilion DV7t Upgrade review

February 6th, 2010 by admin | Posted under HP.

Hewlett Packard Pavilion dv7t is a 17-inch notebook series that was intended as a replacement for a desktop PC. The size of HP Pavilion dv7t series is just a smaller class of Hewlett Packard’s HDX series of 20-inch dimension. This Notebook is one of HP’s “entertainment powerhouse” notebooks. This notebook Designed to handle all your entertainment. The HP Pavilion dv7t first came out to the laptop market with the Intel Centrino 2 processor. Now HP made an upgrade to its existing HP Pavilion dv7t series. Now, you could option to have his HP Pavilion dv7t with the high-powered Intel Core i3, Intel Core i5 or i7 processors.

The storage space of this Notebook also received an upgrade. HP added 240 GB of disk space into this Notebook, making it a 640 GB entertainment laptop. The HP Pavilion dv7t could be loaded with the dual hard drive option, transforming it into a 1.28 TB laptop. Pure entertainment that is, since multimedia files, especially those HD movies, eat up disk space so quick that some laptop owners often resort to buying an external hard disk. With the upgraded HP Pavilion dv7t, it would take some time before one could complain of zero storage space.

The HP Pavilion dv7t comes with the Blue-Ray/DVD Combo optical drive that allows the playing of one’s favorite movies in Blu-Ray media. The HP Pavilion dv7t remains the 17-incher laptop that sports the same liquid metal black finish with silver lining as the previous release. The HP Pavilion dv7t also comes with a Moonlight White finish. The HP Pavilion dv7t’s has liquid crystal display sports a 16:9 aspect ratio, making it good for watching HD movies or playing the latest 3D games. Being a multimedia laptop, the HP Pavilion dv7t is loaded with an integrated TV tuner, Altec Lansing stereo speakers, Web cam and an array of connectivity features like USB ports and card reader.

SPECIFICATIONS OPTIONS

Processor : Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-330M Dual Core processor (2.13GHz, 3MB L2 Cache), Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-350M Dual Core processor (2.26GHz, 3MB L2 Cache), Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-430M Dual Core processor (2.26GHz, 3MB L2 Cache) with Turbo Boost up to 2.53GHz, Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-520M Dual Core processor (2.40GHz, 3MB L2 Cache) with Turbo Boost up to 2.93GHz

Memory : 2GB DDR3, FREE Upgrade to 3GB DDR3, 4GB DDR3, $100 OFF! 6GB DDR3, $100 OFF! 8GB DDR3

Hard drive : 250GB, FREE Upgrade to 320GB, 500GB, 640GB, 1TB 7200RPM SATA Dual Hard Drive (500GB x 2), 448GB (SSD 128GB + 320GB 7200RPM) 628GB (SSD 128GB + 500GB 7200RPM), 1.28TB (640GB x 2), 640GB

Graphics : 512MB NVIDIA GeForce G 105M, 1GB Nvidia GeForce GT 320M – For i3, i5 and i7-620QM

Display : 17.3″ diagonal HD+ High-Definition HP LED BrightView Widescreen Display (1600 x 900)

Battery Life : up to 4.75 hours (8 cell)

Memory card reader : 5-in-1 integrated Digital Media Reader

Ports : 4 USB (4th shared with eSATA port),1 Expansion Port 3

Additional Ports : IEEE 1394 Firewire, HDMI

Hard Drive Protection : HP ProtectSmart protects the hard drive & data

Audio : Altec Lansing stereo speakers

ENERGY STAR Qualified : Yes

Adapter : 90W AC (Shared Graphics) / 120W AC (Dedicated Graphics)

Dimensions : 16.2″ (W) x 10.9″ (D) x 1.37″ (min H)/1.70″ (max H)

Weight : 7.74 lbs