With the release of Windows 7, I purchased a new HP Pavilion Entertainment PC, model dv7. It’s defiantly not a unibody MacBook Pro. This is a 7.7-pound black plastic monster and is intended to replace an Asus Netbook running the very tired Windows XP OS. This system was purchase form Sam’s and could be returned within 90 days. At this point, I think it a keeper. Noted that HP did not load all the typical bloatware and everything worked right out of the box. Interestingly it has a combo drive that reads and rights CD’s, DVD’s, and plays Blue-Ray’s. The screen is LED-backlit, but not as brilliant at the Apple display. The system has been configured to do all my usual stuff and will be my exclusive laptop for the next few weeks. So far I really like Windows 7 OS and this system. The 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo P7550 processor seems snappy. Overtime will see if the system slows…
Ramblings of an old computer engineer/developer 