Anyone have this piece of brilliant Hardware?

KANNIS · 6th August 2004, 10:23 PM

I will be purchasing this little beast very soon anyone have it ?

http://h50025.www5.hp.com/hpcom/au_e...78_DV801P.html

Im thiking about upgrading it to 2g in the ram area for my 3D work and sugestions? and bad points?

groovetek · 6th August 2004, 11:02 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by KANNIS
I will be purchasing this little beast very soon anyone have it ?

http://h50025.www5.hp.com/hpcom/au_e...78_DV801P.html

Im thiking about upgrading it to 2g in the ram area for my 3D work and sugestions? and bad points?

looks good to me... compaq is generally above average when it comes to build quality... so basically I'd be looking out for things like weight/battery life. performance should be good out of that machine, although personally I think Radeon 9000 IGP is somewhat limiting your gaming experience but is easily sufficient... As for upgrading to 2gig of ram, i think it's a little pointless and more tedious as mentioned on the site, you need to remove the exisitng 2x256mb modules in order to get 2g of ram, which would be overkill anyway, especially fora laptop.

DavidRa · 6th August 2004, 11:51 PM

A colleague at work has the 3003AP and he is quite impressed by it.

The screen is bright and clear, but the resolution is relatively low for a large widescreen (I'm used to 1920 x 1200).

The weight is quite good. Not too heavy for what is physically quite a large machine.

As for 2GB RAM ... my Inspiron has 2GB. About the only time I use the full 2GB (and yes, I have used ALL of it!!) is when I run multiple virtual machines at the same time.

KANNIS · 6th August 2004, 11:58 PM

You see the reason why I asked the 2gig ram question is that I am going to do a bit of 3d rendering to show clients and my boss etc etc the work we do..... and the program we use is ram hungry It needs min 2gig on normal pc's ...

The hardrive is 60gig which is perfect but I dont know the speed of it

could be 4200 hey ? thats pretty shit i recon

and what type of CPU does it have? is it a HT version?

ir0nhide · 7th August 2004, 12:35 AM

ive seen better. especially if you want a 'beast' as you call it.

KANNIS · 7th August 2004, 9:41 AM

Yeah I know theres a few toshiba satelites out there that kill it, but I dont want to waste 4-6grand on a laptop

this is up there with it and a bargain for $2200

orF · 17th August 2004, 3:03 AM

Sounds like what you want.

It could cost you about 1000 bucks AUD for 2 x 1gig so dimms.

If the screen is important, best to check it out in person before buying I reckon.

It's possible the Toshiba has a better screen, which could be why it costs alot more?

Falkor · 17th August 2004, 11:00 AM

We have a lot of HP and Compaq laptops at work and i find we have a lot of problems with them.

Out of 10 laptops, all of them have been in for service at least once.

4 or so have had their cdroms replaced, 3 or so have had motherboards replaced.

Could just be us, but imo thats not very good

methodMAN · 17th August 2004, 5:59 PM

Where I use to work we had over 100 HP/Compaq laptops at work, we had bad batches or RAM, and Mainboards, had a run on CDROM/Burners too at one stage.

Very up and down with laptops, but when they worked, they were quite quick and powerful for a laptop.

For $2200 seems like a steal!

methodMAN

Cryogenic · 18th August 2004, 11:35 AM

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Originally posted by groovetek
compaq is generally above average when it comes to build quality...

My previous laptop was a presario and the quality of it left much to be desired.

I dropped it a short distance, on carpet and the LCD is fux0r3d. Now im not saying that it wasnt my fault for dropping it, but for $3500 i think it should have survived that.

Besides that though, the hinges ended up wearing out to the point where it wouldn't hold up anymore, the PCMCIA button broke off and the outer casing cracked from simply opening and closing it.

I had it about 18 months and this is what you get? Not really good quality i think for the outlay.

I now have a Acer and it's soooo much better.

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DavidRa Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Sydney Posts: 1,307	A colleague at work has the 3003AP and he is quite impressed by it. The screen is bright and clear, but the resolution is relatively low for a large widescreen (I'm used to 1920 x 1200). The weight is quite good. Not too heavy for what is physically quite a large machine. As for 2GB RAM ... my Inspiron has 2GB. About the only time I use the full 2GB (and yes, I have used ALL of it!!) is when I run multiple virtual machines at the same time. __________________ Can I become the otherwise unremarkable shrinking man? Losing > 100kg in 6.5 years (Currently: 196kg --> 175 kg, 9 belt notches). Folding as djr 45,000 Club @ 4,000,000 Points Milestone Earlier: Folding as djr(at)wamoz(dot)com 20,000 Club @ 250,000 Points Milestone Blogging at http://www.pdconsec.net/blogs/davidr/

6th August 2004, 11:58 PM	#4
KANNIS Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 3,703	You see the reason why I asked the 2gig ram question is that I am going to do a bit of 3d rendering to show clients and my boss etc etc the work we do..... and the program we use is ram hungry It needs min 2gig on normal pc's ... The hardrive is 60gig which is perfect but I dont know the speed of it could be 4200 hey ? thats pretty shit i recon and what type of CPU does it have? is it a HT version? __________________ \|-O-\| (-O-) \|-O-\| "STAY IN ATTACK FORMATION" OCAU Fishing Club Member #1 Last edited by KANNIS; 7th August 2004 at 12:00 AM.

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ir0nhide Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Adelaide Posts: 1,790	ive seen better. especially if you want a 'beast' as you call it. __________________ gone mobile, yay!! Hot Flashing Group member #1

7th August 2004, 9:41 AM	#6
KANNIS Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 3,703	Yeah I know theres a few toshiba satelites out there that kill it, but I dont want to waste 4-6grand on a laptop this is up there with it and a bargain for $2200 __________________ \|-O-\| (-O-) \|-O-\| "STAY IN ATTACK FORMATION" OCAU Fishing Club Member #1

17th August 2004, 3:03 AM	#7
orF Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 1,099	Sounds like what you want. It could cost you about 1000 bucks AUD for 2 x 1gig so dimms. If the screen is important, best to check it out in person before buying I reckon. It's possible the Toshiba has a better screen, which could be why it costs alot more? Last edited by orF; 17th August 2004 at 3:04 AM.

17th August 2004, 11:00 AM	#8
Falkor Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Sydney Posts: 2,012	We have a lot of HP and Compaq laptops at work and i find we have a lot of problems with them. Out of 10 laptops, all of them have been in for service at least once. 4 or so have had their cdroms replaced, 3 or so have had motherboards replaced. Could just be us, but imo thats not very good __________________ Save the whales, Collect the whole set! .:\|:. Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see - Hebrews 11:1 Can you park? 10 Sin 20 Goto Hell

17th August 2004, 5:59 PM	#9
methodMAN Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: God's Own Posts: 1,636	Where I use to work we had over 100 HP/Compaq laptops at work, we had bad batches or RAM, and Mainboards, had a run on CDROM/Burners too at one stage. Very up and down with laptops, but when they worked, they were quite quick and powerful for a laptop. For $2200 seems like a steal! methodMAN __________________ THE BEAST:(at least thats what I think is in it, time for a new PC) CPU: AMD Athlon XP Barton 2600+ NORTHBRIDGE: VIA KM400 rev. 80 SOUTHBRIDGE: VIA VT8235 rev. 00 RAM: 2 x Kingmax Semiconductor 512 MB PC3200 (200 MHz) VIDEO: Leatek Winfast 128MB Ti4400 DISPLAY: Viewsonic VX2235wm (DVI Input) STORAGE: 4 x Barracuda 7200.9 PATA 500GB MODEM/ROUTER: Linksys WAG54Gv2 INTERNET: iiNet ADSL2+ 19450/1024Mb