HP Pavilion DM1-4300SA 11.6-inch Laptop (AMD Dual-Core E2-1800 1.7GHz Processor, 4GB DDR3 RAM, 500GB SATA 5400RPM HDD, HD7340 Discrete-Class,Integrated Webcam, Windows 8)

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HP Pavilion DM1-4300SA 11.6-inch Laptop (AMD Dual-Core E2-1800 1.7GHz Processor, 4GB DDR3 RAM, 500GB SATA 5400RPM HDD, HD7340 Discrete-Class,Integrated Webcam, Windows 8)

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Processor clock speed: 1700 MHz
Processor family: AMD E series
Processor model: E2-1800
Processor number of cores: 2
L2 cache: 1 MB

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Yes, the product is Okay, 1 Jan 2013

Yakubu Adamu - See all my reviews

This review is from: HP Pavilion DM1-4300SA 11.6-inch Laptop (AMD Dual-Core E2-1800 1.7GHz Processor, 4GB DDR3 RAM, 500GB SATA 5400RPM HDD, HD7340 Discrete-Class,Integrated Webcam, Windows 8) (Personal Computers)

Yes the product is okay, only that am not able to use the touch-screen application as earlier advertised, apart from that it is okay and I ve already recommend it to a friend.

4.0 out of 5 stars Doubts about Windows 8, 31 Dec 2012

Roger - See all my reviews

At the moment I have not purchased this netbook but intend to do so soon.
My main concern was the negative feedback about Windows 8 installed.
I phoned HP sales in the UK who say that they will supply FOC a disk to
downgrade to Windows 7 if a customer is unhappy with Windows 8.
4 stars based on spec only

5.0 out of 5 stars hp pavilion, 30 Dec 2012

Julian Alford - See all my reviews

This product does everything I ask of it. All the features I need in a tiny box, well done hp.

4.0 out of 5 stars ok mini-laptop, hamstrung by windows 8, 27 Dec 2012

Tim (far far away) - See all my reviews

Purchased so daughter could do college work in break times. Therefore: low cost, moderate power, good battery life & solid durability to take knocks and accidents were essentials. As such it's fine. Screen is surprisingly good, PROVIDING it's not cluttered with ribbon menu's etc beloved by Microsoft.

Windows 8 is awful - seems like android phone tech and a backwards step from W7. First thing you must do with a limited power laptop is uninstall the pre-loaded bloatware especially Norton, but W8 makes this a very difficult task. Simple things like finding the control panel become difficult. I guess MS are trapped in an 'emperor's new cloak' spiral of bringing out an unnecessary and unimproved new OS every year or so, otherwise they will go bust.

Bottom line: At £299 It's the best in the shop for the price (much better than an Acer or Samsung. Half the price of Sony & a third the cost of an apple so any comparison is unfair. Don't expect to run hi-spec software or challenge it's limited cooling ability.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Off to a bad start, 26 Dec 2012

Bruce S - See all my reviews

Upon first firing up laptop screen began to flicker. Rang Amazon for the Amazon dealers contacts, and they also gave me the HP service centre number. Called HP service centre, and whilst on the phone to them during some setup tests the screen failed completely. Laptop sent back to HP for repair.
Laptop duely arrived back, and has proved to be a nice machine. Love it's size and light weight, and does everything I need. Love the mouse pad. Dislike windows 8 as I find it annoying, especially as my model Pavillion does not support touch screen capability. For some reason I often have to wait quite long periods to get control of the mouse back when opening a new window, and use of the mouse at these times results in the new window either being magnified or getting smaller depending on what direction the mouse is moved! When you do get full control of mouse back, sometimes a previously opened screen pops up when moving the mouse.
Like a lot of packages these days, you need to buy windows office as a basic version is not pre-loaded.....bit of a phaf that I hadn't originally budgeted for, and found Microsoft prices on the high side. (I can see why people are going for Apple's.)
As a laptop which is under review, it's a good product,(especially bearing mind the price), but let down by I suspect Windows 8 glitches? Microsoft need to pick up their game somewhat, and look at issues that are seriously annoying customers; some of us buy these tools to work on, not to play with as if its some funky device in which to facebook or tweet on.(So far I have even failed to find a facebook app for windows 8 anyway!) Windows 8 forces you to have to relearn, or just plain put up with, just about everything that you could do quickly with older O/S software.....if it was windows under review, Id be reluctant to give it 2 stars......

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Decent Machine, 22 Dec 2012

Anon "in the dark" (UK) - See all my reviews

My only qualm would be that it struggles a bit with HD video. It's not too broken up but if it was any worse, it wouldn't be watchable. Fine for internet browsing, writing word documents and such but if you want a laptop for anything more serious then get something faster. The screen is very good indeed.
The finish is top notch. Really nice rubberised coating and great keyboard. It really looks the part. The Battery life is very good but not as good as my old Toshiba NB305-124.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Windows 8 and Processor performance issues / first day - experiences - and about Start8, Apps, disable of Start live tiles., 22 Dec 2012

Rose of Lancaster (London, UK) - See all my reviews

First of all, I'm only a user, nothing techie about me, so I look at this from the "experience" it gave me and I rated 3 stars because of the hardware, if I'd rate Windows it would not get a star... well, it'd get one because of one being the least mandatory. I have this for a day now - so far it makes me regret not going for the macbook pro I originally wished for due to the obvious price difference of this costing the third of the Mac's price and my little Dell gave it up just before Christmas, perfect timing.

I need a small laptop replacing a Dell Mini, but needed also a slightly more powerful one as I work on the device / e.g. heavily multitask, Word, Excel, Finaldraft, Adobe, multiple documents open at all times.
If you are like me, ditch Windows 8. With Windows 7 this was no problem, I had it on my Dell as well as my work laptop and it works beautifully.

Windows 8 makes the assumption that you have a Windows phone (it's so "in your face" as if it shouted at you, 'how dare you not...?') and thus takes away all the primary tools from you that you use for multitasking, e.g. the taskbar is no longer fixed and above everything you open, there is no Start menu to launch anything (not even a turn off button, it's hidden 3-4 clicks in the Settings that you might want to pin to your desktop or taskbar). The new start menu does not consider at all that you are on a laptop / it considers me, the user to be the dumbie who doesn't care for anything more on my laptop than Apps. E.g. the start menu will have Desktop as one App, and whatever is opened, you have to get into the Start menu, then go to Desktop, then find it. If you have docs that you want to work with while using other stuff as well, it's the most annoying.

Most of these apps are full screen and that means no Taskbar on them. Further, I must be the idiot (and how dare I not having a phone to know this already) but so far I am yet to find how to actually Close these geekly-designed apps. I so far used the Amazon app, which proved to be useless. As if it was on a phone, but as soon as I clicked on Wishlist, it opened in my default browser (which I replaced to be Firefox already, at least that worked.) For someone like me who prefers Google search instead of the annoying Bing (another one that searches for you but then opens Explorer as soon as you click on a result and voila... find your way back to search results if you can) and Firefox instead of Explorer, the Windows 8 is painful. Or better said, installing the third party stuff made it usable - at least with those I have taskbar for example, cos with the original stuff it's all nonsense useless 3x as much clicking and digging up of features and commonly used functions.

As for work, which is why one would buy a laptop instead of a tablet (I presume, like me) so far this is a major pain. We'll see how it will evolve, the first day makes me cry for my money back.

The aha-moment to realise that this is going to be a major struggle for me was the change of the Desktop image. I 'accidentally' found the image I'd use, so at first I saved, but a saved image does not offer you the option - as I am used to it, right click and trying to save as Desktop Background, I only found out that this option does not exist anymore. It offers to save it as background for the Photos App, an annoying thing that started itself as soon as I first clicked on the image and I needed the Ctrl+Alt+Del to get into Task Mgr to shut it. If there is CPU usage issue surely one would not want to run countless apps all the time because there is no proper shutdown function right? It's something that is an issue on all phones I ever had, the Apps just never shut down completely. I am surprised none thought that this should be fixed, instead Microsoft decided to bring the problem into Windows.

Anyways, to change the actual Desktop background, I opened the image in Firefox again and there from right click the option was available, Windows' usual popup asked if Centre or Aligned and that's it. As it was supposed to be with the saved image. A nice touch is that taskbar for example is now aligned in color, and Firefox too. That's a nice plus if one cares for design like me, it spared me the time to change.

The laptop itself:
64 bit, the first time I 'faced' it when installing Office 2010. I am not a techie, but surely my laptop was NOT supposed to freeze for at least a minute, with the mouse stuck at one place while this was installing? (btw, forgot to mention, if you install something you can no longer push it into the background, it sticks to your main screen on top of everything else. Just like it would on a phone I suppose.)

So far the performance is a letdown. It became HOT in two hours, e.g. hand-burning on the bottom and tried helplessly to cool itself. I already had a high performance warning (that is a useful little warning tool that pops in the bottom right corner to alert.) But every install (had 6 so far: Office, Finaldraft, Firefox, Skype and Adobe Flash and some built-in Apps installed cos Windows brought up the Update window) results in fan-running, slowness, 2x even the mouse-freezing shock. I had this on my Dell during it's last two months only, so I am completely shocked this issue comes up on the first day.

Cannot comment on the audio, but I assume it's OK (beats by dre, added a kind of cool edge to an average laptop), and the design is nice, the laptop is very lightweight, just how I needed it so I can drag around.

The touch pad is fab, I have to include it. It works perfectly and it's a nice feeling to touch it, cannot describe it better :) The keyboard is another nice feature, 'rubbery' touch buttons. We'll see how long the letter signs will last, I always use A and E very quickly (long nails don't go well with certain angles of typing I suppose.)

The design cover is nice especially as dust, fingerprint etc resistant, it seems very easy to keep clean and tidy and surely seems not to pick up scratches. I have a thing for white laptops (and against black) but so far I like how this looks :)

I bought HP instead of the planned Mac mainly cos the old laptop gave in quickly, and my work laptop is a 15" widescreen HP that was not chosen by me of course. In my humble opinion, most companies are yet to realise that people who don't develop or maintain IT for example do not need 15" and 4 kg in their laptop bag especially if they are required to be mobile with it - e.g drag it around the world, through airports, transits, security checks, hotel and customer visits etc so they have access to their Outlook and their VPN to the office storage. what a waste of effort and money, not to mention the impression it has. The reason I mention this is because it was one of the reasons I chose this laptop, to "replace" the work laptop as well, e.g. drag this around instead. Well, we can safely say that with Windows 8 I face the trouble of not being able to work effectively on the laptop. I'm indeed not impressed.

Overall, for the money I paid for this (£349, not from Amazon) I guess I got a good value, nicely built, it ticks the pre-requirements it faced in terms of design, size, weight, keyboard, touchpad, etc. Cannot comment on battery life yet, hopefully it's able to last through some hours for the flights and transits it's supposed to.

Windows 8 is a huge letdown, it took everything I found useful in Windows, so I am thinking of a "downgrade" if things don't get manageable in the next two weeks. I understand the need for improvement, but IMO Microsoft made a huge error thinking people no longer have to work but just enjoy their laptop as if life is one big fun where all we do is Facebook (on my start menu constantly now tho I have no FB account.) For the user who prefers the quick easy multitasking, this seems to be a major burden. Either I give in or give up I suppose, I'll decide in two weeks. If it's still a complete hassle then Bye-bye Windows 8.

EDIT :
One more annoying thing in Windows 8 apps - the scrollbars. They just disappear after 2 seconds. Imagine scrolling through the mailbox, reading all the titles of new mails so you select if you want to read the mails in a limited time. Now you cannot just scroll, you have to do "dance over" where the scrollbar is supposed to be to enable it again so you can scroll. The person who designed it was either using Mac, or simply wanted to punish those who don't yet do. This btw is about EVERY scrollbar that you can find. Even if you leave the cursor on the bar, it still gets inactive and "disappears" so when you click, voila - you clicked on something you did not meant to, in the case of the email app, it's an email that opens regardless of the fact that you wanted to scroll through it. Extremely annoying.

EDIT #2 :
Using Apps.
Skype app tries to logon with the information it has (in my case, the hotmail address I have) and offers no option to actually type in the account details. After a dozen tries, I found where to do so, but you can MERGE one account into the App and that is NOT without the option of connecting it to your hotmail/else address you used when first starting the laptop and creating your account. E.g. for a work skype acc, or if you have more, you will NOT be able to use the app. I uninstalled it, installed the good old skype from its website and all works fine and well (PS - go to Skype options - Advanced and turn off that skype stays on the tray when logged on otherwise it'll stick there all the time)

Start8 brings back the old Start menu and all is well with it, after wanting to toss the whole thing out this solved many of the problems e.g. Windows 8 not exactly giving access to Control Panel etc, or not having easily accessible Shutdown etc. It's the same Start menu that Start8 brings back, and you can use with the new Windows 8 menu combined, which then works well.

On the new start menu, EVERY content you have is displayed - if you once sent a picture in hotmail, it is now accessed and displayed at random. All the Apps display their content. So if you are like me and don't like this sharing and disclosing everything everywhere, right click on them and you can disable the live share, or uninstall the app from the Start menu.

This I add, cos HP does NOT provide support for downgrade / if you go for down grade you have to obtain the older Windows, if you not yet have one, and then do it yourself but if you ever need HP support, they'll point at the downgrade. Might as well try to live with it. HP only supports business downgrades when it's to standardise the company IT fleet.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Just the job, 3 Dec 2012

Allan Maclardy "Allanmac" (Manchester UK) - See all my reviews

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I have had this computer for about 2 weeks now, and to be honest i am still trying to get used to Windows 8 , I am not a big fan just now, but I am sure I will get used to it eventually, I bought this laptop as my Samsung x120 is on its way out, the HP is a nice enough laptop , well made , fairly fast with a decent screen, it has a good battery life and a good range of connections including HDMI, it is light and for just over £300.00 it is stylish and I believe it has been a good purchase. I needed something portable with a good screen for watching films on the go etc., and I like to think it fits the bill.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Good buy, 30 Nov 2012

pal - See all my reviews

When you get used to Windows 8 it is great. the laptop is good to use as well. T he only slight downside being 64bit many of my older discs are not compatible.

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