Something I got Imogen...

Is $1k a good deal for this laptop?

HP Pavilion dv7t Entertainment PC
• champagne (color of the laptop)
• Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
• System Recovery DVD with Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
• Intel® Core™ i7-720QM Quad Core processor (1.6GHz, 6MB L3 Cache) with Turbo Boost up to 2.8 GHz
• 1GB ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 5650 Graphics [HDMI, VGA] - For Quad Core Processors
• 8GB DDR3 System Memory (2 Dimm)
• 500GB 7200RPM Hard Drive with HP ProtectSmart Hard Drive Protection
• No Additional Office Software
• No additional security software
• 6 Cell Lithium Ion Battery (standard) - Up to 5.0 hours of battery life +++
• Standard Keyboard
• 17.3" diagonal HD+ High-Definition HP LED BrightView Widescreen Display (1600 x 900)
• Blu-ray player & Lightscribe SuperMulti DVD burner
• HP TrueVision Webcam with Integrated Digital Microphone
• 802.11b/g/n WLAN and Bluetooth®

for the price, yes.

That's pretty hot for a laptop at that price.

Out of curiosity, where did you get and how did you get that price =p

Only thing I'd get upgraded potentially is the battery.

It is a nice lap top. I wouldn't get a 1.6g quad core though. I would want a faster dual core. I got the same thing a year and a half ago for $550, refrib off of ebay, though it has half the ram, smaller hard drive and screen and less of a video card but does have the bluray player. Though I forgot what button to push in that stupid HP software to make a bluray movie play.

BTW there is no way you getting 5 hours, think maybe 2 1/2. 5 hours in sleep mode maybe.

I had thought of the battery...but she's not going to be toting it around alot - mostly to play TOR with us.

Arch, I had the same qualms as you when I was checking out the i7 quad cores. But there is a setting TurboBoost something or the other so that when the speed is checked by a software (like games) it will read 2.8 gHz and operate in that fashion. Otherwise I had planned to use an i5 at 2.53 gHz.

Nis, I went to the HP website and built it - and then searched online for HP rebates. I found one for $400 off of a custom built machine $1250 or more and right now they are running a special for $100 off. So I totaled the maching at $1499 and then ran the coupons.

good times , good times !

We got it and opened it only to find a horrific scratch (1 cm long and about 2 mm wide). I was pretty ticked that we paid good money to get a scratched up computer so after an hour and a half of tech support all they could do was issue a replacement....

Oh well, we will have it by the 12th of January.

That sucks... Do you have to send back the scratched one? ;p

Yeah...I should have asked how much it would have been to keep it. But because of the discount I was given they will probably make more money than selling it to me the first time around. (Plus my wife vetoed it - she didn't want me to have TWO super awesome computers)