HP Pavilion DM4-1300 14.0 inch Laptop (Intel Core i5-460 Processor, 2.53GHz, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD, Windows 7 Home Premium) - Aluminium
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Overview With its lightweight but durable metal chassis plus thin and light design, the HP Pavilion dm4 is perfect for road warriors who travel in style. Enjoy powerful performance, energy-saving features, wireless connectivity and a 35.56 cm (14") HD screen. Features Surprisingly slim, unbelievably light • The HP Pavilion dm4 is a notebook you'll always want to take with you. At 2.5 cm tall and weighing 2 kg its slim profile makes it perfect for getting work done wherever you are. Work longer and get more done • With the HP Pavilion dm4 you can enjoy comfortable all-day computing,... 14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Stylish, light weight, elegant and performs great!, By
Sam - See all my reviews
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The HP pavillion DM4 is a true beauty. I'm a university student and was looking for an ultra mobile laptop that does not compromise performance. I've had it for 2 days now and I gotta say I'm super pleased with it. Looks stunning, keyboard feels amazing and the screen display is a true beauty. The webcam is excellent and is definitely the best quality webcam I have ever used. Its very crisp and clear. With the intel core i5, the overall laptop Performance is fast and effortless, boots up in less than 45 seconds and the HP finger reader is such a good invention and works great too. Good I don't have to remember a lot of passwords any more. The laptop colour however, I was told by HP is kinda silverish but its not. Its more like a mix between brown and pink but its a very nice colour and definitely stands out in the crowd. The mouse works GREAT. Functions just like a normal mouse but with a little bit extra features such as the two finger scrolling and finger slide to go back or forward. You can easily turn off the touch pad with two simple taps on the sensor at the top left corner. Overall I think its worth every penny but its early days so fingers crossed I'll feel the same way 1-2 years from now. I will also be posting a video review soon. 2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
HP Pavilion DM4-1300ea, By
JonathanP - See all my reviews
This review is from: HP Pavilion DM4-1300 14.0 inch Laptop (Intel Core i5-460 Processor, 2.53GHz, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD, Windows 7 Home Premium) - Aluminium (Personal Computers)
I bought the HP Pavilion as a replacement for an 18 month-old Samsung X460 which was stolen. I have to say the Samsung outperformed the HP in most respects.I chose the HP as the manufacturer because a recent Greenpeace report said that only HP and Dell took adequate care that they did not use resources from conflict-affected countries - and that's a good reason for buying from them. The DM4 has a 14" screen, which I have always found to be a good compromise between usability and portability. However, I find the screen on the DM4 is too wide, making the useable height much more like a 13" or even 12" screen. The screen is not as bright or as easily adjustable as the Samsung, and, despite considerable tweaking with the ClearType and performance settings, I find that text is not sharp on the screen.
As Windows and Office give a predictable experience, the usability of one computer over another lies in the smaller things. Three things irritate me when using the DM4. First, the touch-pad is a nightmare. As the buttons are integral to the pad, they take a lot of effort to click them, and it's very hard to click and drag accurately. I've had the computer a while now and this hasn't improved with familiarity. Also, if you double-click in the top left-hand corner, you switch the pad off, and there seems to be no way of turning this function off. Second, the button to release the DVD drawer is tiny and recessed, and can only be done with long fingernails! This reminds me of my partner's HP laptop, the DVD drawer of which can only be opened by fiddling with a paper-clip! Last, when using headphones there is a terrible electronic buzzing noise from the hard drive bleeding through into the audio channels. This really spoils listening to music or a film. In addition, the fan is actually quite noisy for a new computer, and one can hear the hard drive - neither of which was true of the Samsung. Finally, the keyboard on mine is slightly buckled, rising up in the centre. At the moment, it doesn't affect its functionality, but it doesn't instil confidence in build quality. The keys on the keyboard itself are very smooth, and I find my fingers slipping off them easily. You certainly need to keep you fingernails short (although then you won't be able to open the DVD drive!).
One big issue is that the laptop does not come with the operating system disc, so if your hard drive goes you've got a problem. I generally re-install the operating system every 18 months or so - the difference in speed when you do this is amazing. There is an awful lot of `bloatware' on the HP, which I would love to get rid of and just go back to the basic operating system. Compared to the Samsung, which came with disks for both Vista and XP Professional, this looks like a very raw deal. HP's power management and audio control software are unintuitive to use, and make simple things unnecessarily complicated.
In its favour, the DM4 does look good, although the laser etching might not be to everyone's taste (I think it's a bit `bling'). And it's fast where it matters, with a 7,200 rpm drive and 2.53 chip. I like some of the little touches, such as a good quality cloth to keep the screen and keyboard apart. And, unlike the Samsung, you can set the laptop to wake up from standby when you open the lid.
So overall, the DM4 is a competent performer - no complaints on the speed - but I'd probably do a bit more research next time...
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Watch out for terrible HP customer support, By
Shaz - See all my reviews
This review is from: HP Pavilion DM4-1300 14.0 inch Laptop (Intel Core i5-460 Processor, 2.53GHz, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD, Windows 7 Home Premium) - Aluminium (Personal Computers)
I ordered this laptop, and was happily using it for 6 weeks. And then my hard drive died. I contacted HP and spoke with them about the error code that came up, and as the laptop was still under warranty, they informed me that they would send out a new hard drive and recovery discs, and that everything should be with me by 7 working days.The hard drive came just about in the time-frame they gave me, and I spoke with technical assistance multiple times for help installing this. They advised me that my new recovery discs would be with me in 3 working days time. It's now been 4 working days (9 working days since the original call), the discs haven't arrived, and when I spoke with HP earlier today, I found out that the recovery discs were never ordered. They have now been ordered these and requested "express delivery", but will take another 3-5 working days to arrive. I spoke with the complaints department, who repeatedly told me that there was nothing she could do to help me, and suggested that it was my own fault for not making my own recovery discs when I first used the computer.
If you do buy this laptop, make your own recovery discs, back up everything as you go along, because a hard drive failure seems like a common occurrence with HP products.
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