Home > Consumer Reviews > HP Pavilion DV2840SE 14.1-inch Special Edition Laptop (AMD Turion 64 X 2 Dual Core TL-60 Processor, 4 GB RAM, 250 GB Hard Drive, DVD Drive, Vista Premium)

I recently purchased this computer for my high school graduate. She will be taking it off to college in the fall. She loves the cool design, the entertainment functions and the great speed.

At the discounted price of $900 as of mid-June + the $50 rebate, this laptop was a great value, and still is at $1000, though I would recommend waiting a bit for another HP discount to pop up this summer. The design and structure of the laptop and very slick and hip. This laptop was built and is marketed for entertainment, so I would recommend it for any families or students. 4GB of RAM is a nice boost to system performance, and the 250GB (219GB usable disk space after partition + OS) should be plenty for most users, but if not, fast external storage is getting pretty cheap these days. The screen is fantastic and the quad-band (?) is plenty fast. Overall, its a great machine with high performance for most entertainment applications. If you can snatch it for $900 or less, depending upon what rebates/coupons HP throws out there, it's a fantastic value.

I purchase this laptop after search a lot, it's an amazing machine, the design is great too, I fully recomended to everybody that needs performance, mobility. Besides the integrated web cam is quite good, as well as the altec lansing speakers.

I like the shape of this laptop but the shape is not every thing, i bought 5 laptops of the same seires and all of them have the same following problems:

1- HP DV find it difficult to communicate with encrypted wireless router .. i konw it is a windows vista issue but i face this problem in HP more than Toshiba or Acer.
2- The mouse and keyboard sensitivity is very bad, for example if i want to write www.amazon.com i discoverd that i only print ww.aazo.om with a lot of letters gone.

This was the major problem in HP DV Series and the overall system is good.

This laptop worked great for about 6 months and then the heat began. It gets so hot on the top and bottom that you either have to shut it off to let it cool off or it quits functioning all by itself. I know this laptop is not being made any more, but I wanted to help people avoid buying an older computer for less.

I love the look, but I need a laptop that will run all day. This is not it. Another thing, if you have an XBOX 360 and you use the DVD remote anywhere close to this laptop the entertainment program just turns on and looks for a DVD. That drives me nuts. Lately it just freezes up the computer and I have to shut down. Avoid this one.