HP Pavilion DV6000

I had one of these but i wasn't very pleased with its performance.

Since I have owned the computer it has had a never ending list of issues. After reading online I guess my issue of not being able to turn the wifi on is a common problem (light stays orange). Also I have had the battery issue as we'll not being able to hold a charge. I had every common issue with this thing. My advice do not buy anything HP.

This laptop should be given a government health warning with the guarantee!! After about an hour or so the touch pad is untouchable! so much heat you need to turn it off for fear of it bursting into flames!(slightly OTT) but if you have one you no what I mean. I unplugged it one day and took it out backdoor and dropped a slab on it. NVIDIA GRAPHICS AND AMD NEVER AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I purchased the dv6000 AMD Turion64x2 in December 2006. I can honestly say that this has been a truly oustanding notebook! While I wasn't sold on AMD processors in 2006, I'm now sold on them. I rarely ran into any major issues(replacing motherboard, etc.)so I can not relate to the frustration of those who had trouble from the start. I think that in many cases the base model of any notebook has fewer problems. The computer was used on a daily basis from December 2006-April 2011. I downloaded/added many applications over the years. No issues. I did however run out of memory at times(no fault of the dv6000). It only had 2GB of memory. In April 2011, I finally had a couple of keys "pop off".. Despite being able to easily snap them into place, I decided to put the dv6000 "out to pasture".. I immediately replaced it with an HPdv7-4278nr AMD Vision. The new notebook has big shoes to fill...

Had to replace the motherboard twice.

HP Service Center in Sao Paulo, Brazil took 4.5 months to make one repair.

WLAN card replaced.

I never use this compu. without a cooling base.

My other HP (TX1000) has been a nightmare and is now not working again after major repairs. Not worth throwing good money after bad anymore. Worst experience of my computing life.

US Federal Class -action lawsuit in force. HP knows of this lawsuit but has not contacted the registered owners of their faulty machines to inform them of the ability to resolve their problems brought about by HP selling a poorly designed machine (excessive heat) machine.

Many HP laptops affected, I own two of them.

I will try to never buy HP again.

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DO'NT BUY A H.P. The now famous motherboard and nvidia8600m gs graphic card overheating and £400 repair bill....YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED

Bought 2.5 years ago and it hasn't failed me once - first laptop I have owned, and really very pleased indeed with it. It came with Vista which puts off many people, but once again, have had no trouble with that either - must be the only person in the world who doesn't complain about Vista !!

If I had to criticise anything, one or two of the keys have lost their lettering which isn't a problem for me anyway as I am a touch-typist.

I shall be sorry when it eventually comes to the end of its lifespan !!

Within the first month of owning this laptop I had to replace the MOTHERBOARD. Over the course of the three years of having this computer, I have had to replace the BATTERY twice and the HARD DRIVE once. The SOUND has broken three times so I can't listen to music. Piece of * computer that gives me a headache. DON'T BUY.

I have had this laptop for just over two years now and I can honestly say it is one of the best I have had! It has never let me down and the features are fantastic - wireless is great! It looks really nice too! The battery life isn't fantastic - when fully charged I get around about 1 hour 15mins depending on what I am doing but tha's on the original 2 yr old battery.

Overall, very pleased with my puchase and would recommend it to a friend!

DO NOT BUY THIS LAPTOP!! I started developing a boot up problem creating an 8 split screen. After doing some reasearch it turns out it is a design fault in all the HP Pavillions causing the motherboard and graphic card to overheat! While it worked like a dream for a year and a half, this problem can not be fixed cheaply!!