Review of Hp Pavilion Dv9565 (laptop)

Since when has hard drive storage space been termed as Memory as it has in this review.????

This review sounds like its been done by a sales assistant simply looking at the hardware specs trying to give a sales pitch. Thank you, we know what you can do with usb, we know what wLan is, and have you ever bought a laptop that DIDNT come with mains adapter? And thank you Paul for pointing out \\\\\\\"memory\\\\\\\" is not disk space.

I have owned and used this laptop over 10 hours daily for 4 months now and I am astounded with it, it runs very well indeed, 2Ghz + 2Gb ram, actually outperforms my 2.4ghz Pentium 4 machine. Has an average graphics card, Nvidia 8400m gs.
The laptop includes: built in high res webcam, stereo microphones, average quality laptop speakers, 2 headphone sockets (and SPDIF), a IEEE1394 (firewire) connection, VGA, HDMI, and S-vhs output for a 2nd monitor/tv, dial up modem, a 5-in-1 camera card reader, wLan and bluetooth, 2 remote controls- a larger one designed for dvd’s & the included(!!) DVB (freeview) tuner card, and a smaller one designed to control windows media player, winamp or your favourite music player.
It is NOT very portable, as far as laptops go, it is one of the larger ones, 17.5 inch screen on a laptop is far bigger than most, and will only just squeeze into the laptop backpack I bought for it. Due to the size, it has a full keyboard including a numeric keypad, which is rare on laptops, and is fantastic in my opinion as I use professional applications that use this. The built in fingerprint scanner never fails to make you feel professional when people expect to see you type a password to log in!

Bad things: One criticism is the lack of a physical volume control, there are a few touch sensitive buttons to control media players, including a volume up and down, but these only control the windows software volume, meaning it is slow to change volume, and if you are not logged in, you cannot change the volume, which can be embarrassing if you go to use the computer in a quiet public place, such as a library, as in the start up tune cannot be muted until you log in. Another thing, the hard disk space claims to be320gb, in reality, there are 2 149gb hdd\\\\\\\'s installed, one of which has a 10gb untouchable partition (I’ve tried!) which has \\\\\\\"restore data\\\\\\\" in case you ever need to repair windows, as the laptop comes with no vista disk, which is a shame, and after 10gb of windows system files and drivers, leaves you with roughly 280gb of free space. (Which to be fair is still ample) (This size exaggerating extends to ALL larger hard drives sold these days, portable and built-in, manufacturers claim that a gigabyte is a billion bytes, rather than the proper 1,073,741,824). Battery life is also a little disappointing (aprox 5 hours on word, 2.5 watching videos or dvd\\\\\\\'s.)

Apart from volume control, size, battery, and lower-than-expected disk space, this is a fantastic laptop that I will keep and love for many years, and would (and do!) recommend this exact model every time.