Although it shipped with a bad pixel on the screen (not a horrible thing, but I'm OCD), the company is shipping me a new one within the next week. Once I receive that one, I will return this one, no harm no foul.
The streaming video was extremely choppy and unwatchable, so I simply found the latest BIOS (which is easy using HP's updater assistant, freely downloaded at hp's support website), installed it and once I did that, the video streamed perfectly. Took maybe 2 minutes.
There was a corel wordperfect suite (or something similar) which I got rid of pretty quickly and replaced with OpenOffice, but hardly a spec of bloatware anywhere on the machine.
One thing about this laptop, the screen resolution is 1366x768. There's another version of this exact same laptop with 1600x900 resolution. I would strongly recommend that one over this one. Had I known it was physically limited (and not just a driver update issue) I would have bought the higher res version instead.
Awesome laptop for the price, super fast (11-12 second from dead to windows screen) and upgrade-able to 16 MB RAM (which I just ordered for this laptop).
I'm giving this 5 stars because the screen resolution wasn't the company's fault, and they responded within a couple hours to replace this unit with one without a dead pixel issue.
| Standing screen display size | 14 Inches |
|---|---|
| Screen Resolution | 1366 x 768 pixels |
| Max Screen Resolution | 1366 x 768 Pixels |
| Processor | 2.6 GHz Core_i5_3320M |
| RAM | 8 GB DDR3 |
| Memory Speed | 2.6 GHz |
| Hard Drive | 240 GB SSD |
| Graphics Coprocessor | Intel Integrated Graphics |
| Chipset Brand | Intel |
| Card Description | Integrated |
| Graphics Card Ram Size | 8 GB |
| Wireless Type | 802.11a |
