Item : B001FWWB0Y Customer Reviews The Best Value If You're Technically Savvy by .. Gift Card CUSTOMER (Texas United States) I bought this computer on sale for $550. That alone made this laptop a great value, however once I formatted the hard drive and installed Windows XP SP2, this laptop went from great to awesome. Even at its current price, it is a great buy, and even greater if you install Windows XP on it. Wonderful Laptop! by .. S. Hayes () This is a great Laptop. I've had it for 3 months now. I'm using mine while deployed in Iraq and it is AWESOME! The best part is the brightness of the screen and also how loud the speakers are. I dont even have to plug in any additional speakers like I had to do for my previous Dell laptop. I mostly use it for online school and for music. The computer is very fast and I dont forsee any problems with it. The only thing I would reccommend is buying an extra battery because it doesnt last long at all. But what laptop does? Great bargain by .. semajrick (boston, ma) This is the best laptop I have ever owned. I needed a 32 OS because our VPN client does not support a 64 bit OS yet. The salesperson recommended this and I could not be happier. I bought two (one for my wife). The price was $600/piece. The 3 GB of RAM really helps with performance. The full keyboard is such a plus especially when you have to use a RAS card to log into VPN. The wireless connectivity is great. I have no issues anywhere in my house connecting to my wireless network. Battery life is more than adequate. The sleek design along with the 15.6 wide screen is a plus. The built in web cam is so so but I use the family PC's logitech if I really need high res. Sound system is O.K. I much prefer to hook it up to external speakers if I want to listen to music. All in all a great bargain. great product, very satisfied by .. gomez bernardo () this laptop is not only very accesible for it's price but because of the features packed in it (and they're very good), the full-sized keyboard with the numeric keys by it's side is a huge plus for me( i hate typing numbers on the qwerty), vista works fine, wireless capabilities are good, so far so great, i have not encountered any trouble and it has been around the house for about a month now. Great Buy by .. Warfare (Tampa, FL) I recently purchased this computer and could not be happier. It performs well and it's one of the fastest laptops I have ever seen! AMD has really perfected the dual core processor. The 3GB of RAM and the Nvidia Graphics chip really make highly visual software fly. I use to be a gamer and on occasion still delve into some of them. I know that laptops are not generally adequate enough to play some of the high end games at high quality, but just for fun I tried one out. Not only did it run the game at an astonishing speed, but with the highest detail. Needless to say I was impressed. I only gave this computer 4 stars, which can easily be given 5, because the built in camera is low quality, which my cell phone is even better, so I would have figured HP could do a little better. If you are just going to use it for messaging, then it's perfect. Vcasting would maybe be another story. Also, I gave it 4 stars because one of the programs I installed didn't work at first. It took couple of minutes to get working properly and did become frustrating, but it did work and continues to work just fine. It was a one time occurrence and wasn't a huge deal. Runs very cool and looks completely flawless. The last time I saw a screen with this much clarity and crispness, I was staring into a top of the line Mac.